EBG interviewed Knut Olav Irgens Høeg, Head of Procurement Europe at Statoil Fuel & Retail AS (SFR) about his long experience from procurement in different industries and the work being done in SFR. Statoil Fuel & Retail is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. since 2012 and in 2016 all gas stations will change […]
EBG | Insight: The Lundbeck business service center and Ariba story
We live in a rapidly changing world and businesses need to stay agile. Finding ways to lower cost and ad value is on all businesses agenda. Actually doing so is another question. Lundbeck has undertaken several steps to ensure they enable the strategy set. “We want to invest significantly in growth opportunities, maximize the growth […]
EBG | Insight: End-to-end perspective summit from source to pay
On November 17th 2015, at Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm, procurement and finance professionals will meet up at Ariba Commerce Summit 2015. During this summit you can network with practitioners and experts and exchange experiences, learn about future procurement developments and today’s technology driven market. Listen to the below interview with Charlotte Wedell-Neergaard, Nordic […]
EBG Interview: AstraZenecas road to P2P tool implementation success
It is not even given that all large organizations have a dedicated e-procurement tool beyond SAP SRM or other ERP centric procurement tools. That became evident at this years Source to Pay Summit 2014. How ever, once you have decided to implement a tool, perhaps as in the case of AstraZeneca in several countries – […]
RT: Following up on the SAP and ARIBA relationship
It is being speculated that the fee structure of Ariba will change. The question of how much a value network is worth can always be discussed and the fee structure in the “e” world could and should for sure be analysed and discussed. Spend Matters believe that the current structure will be changed in the […]
RT: It is final, Ariba an SAP company and thus let the phones start ringing
It aint over until the fat lady sings, but now it is final. Ariba is an SAP company. Whatever anyone might think of either SAP or Ariba this is huge. Also for all the companies having embarged on an SRM project, wondering how to move forward, all the SAP procurement consultants as well as for […]
EBG Play: Europe: Ariba and Peppol = true?
Ariba were present at the 7th and final Peppol conference in Rome in May. Together with SAP and others they sat at a panel discussion talking about the what and why public sector need to look at networked economies linkiing buyers and sellers together. Although questions about the SAP take over were obvious, there is […]
SAP acquires Ariba – question mark: exclamation mark
From the press release; WALLDORF, Germany and SUNNYVALE, California – May 22, 2012 – SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA) today announced that SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire Ariba, the leading cloud-based business commerce network, for $45.00 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately […]