What if you could follow the development of a brand new sourcing organization covering several countries? What the initial decisions were, what actions that were taken, how the development progressed and what lessons learned that can be shared. EBG | Network are happy to welcome back Katarzyna Fabianska, Indirect Sourcing Director at DeLaval to Source […]
EBG | Insight: Aligning from source to pay and lessons learned
Another great contribution to Source 2 Pay Summit 2015 was Rolph Hey, Regional Sourcing Manager Nordics at 3M. Rolph moderated Theme Discussions focusing on “Challenges and opportunities aligning from source to pay”. Of course a very broad subject which was drilled down into the way in which organizations set up new ERP-systems, choose to organize […]
A thinner line between direct and indirect procurement
When we talk about spend we still talk about direct and indirect spend. The latter being what is not directly used in a production line. The latter still not – in our mind – seen as the strategic asset it is and increasingly will be. Increasingly though that definition is becoming obsolete. What do we […]
LinkedIn: "What do I want to achieve?" vs. "What do figures tell me I should have?"
The what, how and when when it comes to indirect spend is interesting. In this discussion someone is asking what ratio spend vs amount of people handling that spend leads up to an interesting discussion. How could or should you calculate, spend vs type spend vs type supplier vs type organisation etc. The questions asked: […]
A wave of indirect spend coming at ya
There is an urge to save money out there. To cut costs, to minimize administration costs and to cut out “stuff” we do not want to pay hard cash for in an organisation. Indirect spend – and whatever we call it in public sector and in the service industry – is getting more attention. Could […]
Why bother with indirect spend?
It is no news that companies in general are more focused on direct spend when it comes to talking about procurement. If they talk about procurement at all. It comes as a surprise to EBG that so many procurement managers feel that their job is being neglected by the management team, them being much more […]