In October 2025, procurement leaders from across the Nordics gathered at the CPO Outlook 2025 summit in Stockholm to discuss the evolving challenges facing their function. The summit, held on October 15-16, brought together senior leaders from major organizations including NCC, Scania, Länsförsäkringar, Handelsbanken, Equinor, Solar, and Essity. Through surveys conducted from September through November […]
CPO Outlook 2025 | From Reality to Reinvention
After fifteen years on stage, one thing remains constant: procurement leaders’ willingness to share what is real. Behind every new technology lies an ongoing question. Every shift in expectation prompts how to focus, connect, and act when everything seems important at once. At CPO Outlook 2025, that honesty took center stage again. The conversations and […]
Cargotec join Source 2 Pay Summit 2020
Will a company ever be finished improving efficiency? Will the effect given strategies enable ever be enough? What do you do when you have realized important milestones and are looking ahead? EBG | Network are happy to welcome Pia Lax-Lehtelä, Director, Development and Projects, Indirect Procurement and Laura Oldendorff, Development Manager, Purchasing at Cargotec to […]
EBG | Play: Structuring global procurement
It is no easy task creating and managing global organizations. It is no easy task managing global procurement organizations – end-to-end. This is why it is extra inspiring to listen to Tamara Braun, CPO at SAP sharing how they have chosen to structure their global procurement organization. How they have chosen to set up their […]
UPM and Finnair to Source 2 Pay Summit 2017
EBG | Network are very happy to welcome two experienced managers to Source 2 Pay Summit 2017. Nina Kivioja at UPM and Kati Leppänen at Finnair both have long experience from shaping, measuring and developing sourcing and procurement processes and organizations further. During Source 2 Pay Summit 2017, Nina and Kati will moderate Theme Discussions […]
EBG | Insight: Arjan van Weele about the need for change
He is a household name within procurement and supply chain – Arjan van Weele. He holds the (parttime) NEVI-Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management, at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS). Arjan acts as an independent boardroom consultant to many large companies on procurement strategy and governance issues. He […]
EBG | Insight: Change ahead at Statoil Fuel & Retail
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 […]