Should companies talk about digital transformation or process transformation? To EBG process highlight the dependencies functions and decisions have across an organization. Cost control and cash flow performance mean collaborating across functions. Sustainability improvements and reporting mean knowing your business internally and increasingly externally. On April 25th you who join CFO Outlook 2024 will have […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Learn from the finance digitization and automation journey at Billerud
Improving efficiency, considering end to end processes and making sure doing so in an adjustable way. This is what Billerud have set out to achieve and you can learn more about it! Three years ago Billerud started a journey towards automation and harmonization of systems, processes and working methods within finance. The new strategy meant […]
EBG | Webinar: Sustainability due diligence and governance for procurement in 2023
Procurement have been aware of the impact supply chain and external spend have on corporate sustainability agendas for a long time. A lot has happened on the legislation side as well as on corporate awareness. During this upcoming webinar EBG bring together brains and experiences across multiple aspects of corporate sustainability realization. Because even though […]
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CFO Outlook 2024 | Final Program available
Should companies talk about digital transformation or process transformation? To EBG process highlight the dependencies functions and decisions have across an organization. Cost control and cash flow performance mean collaborating across functions. Sustainability improvements and reporting mean knowing your business internally and increasingly externally. On April 25th you who join CFO Outlook 2024 will have […]
Stora Enso join CFO Outlook 2024
All want control, all want insights, all want automation and digitalization. So why are we not seeing more progress? A warm welcome to Hannele Palje-Rossi, SVP, Head of Global Business Services at Stora Enso joining CFO Outlook 2024. Hannele will share her view on how to Rewire to a ‘Good enough’ AI culture! Most agree […]
Acumant join CFO Outlook 2024
EBG | Network welcome Acumant with its ESG platform ecoPRISM to CFO Outlook 2024. Acumant join as an Expert Organization. You who join the summit will learn more about their view on creating a holistic view over your ESG data (Environmental, social and governance). As we will learn during CFO Outlook 2024, sustainability is not […]
Billerud join CFO Outlook 2024
How do you execute what may seem like a straight forward strategy? Often strategies end up relying on stakeholders across functions collaborating. On data being accurate. On businesses being consistent. Many of which all of you know is often quite hard to predict. EBG | Network give a warm welcome to Jesper Persson, Business Developer […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Tradeshift reflections over anti-fragile supply chains
There are many of us trying to make sense over what happens in a crisis. The actions taken and the impact that has in the long run. Can there ever be anything good coming out of a crisis? Some say there is. EBG interviewed Mikkel Hippe Brun, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Greater China […]
EBG | Insight: Was 2020 the final wake up call for digitization?
There are clear indications this must be the case. That the disruption having faced almost all businesses on a global scale will skyrocket the effort digitizing also supply chains. There are actions to take and considerations to be had. In this EBG | Insight interview we meet up with Bernhard Soltmann, Managing Director of Allocation […]
EBG | Insight: CPO talk with Per Hill – finding ways to be both efficient and effective
Aligning procurement targets to company targets, supporting the business and delivering results. Easily said but not so easily achieved? In far too many situations procurement and finance functions find themselves not reaching set targets, or trying to reach targets that simply aren’t aligned with overall business targets. What happen then is frustrated managers and even […]
EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
Organizations are striving to increase an understanding of company spend, ways to improve innovation speed and company capital and cash. Procurement have for a long time struggled to highlight the possible impact the know how they possess can have on all of the above. Challenges visualizing what is and what if can be part of […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Aker Solutions: Reputational and financial risk control
It is always a treat hearing real life experiences from different industries and with different angles based on the same premises. That today a lot of doing business has to do with managing and developing external supplier relationships. EBG | Network is very happy that Hilde Kjensjord, Senior Manager, SCM Governance, Risk & Compliance at […]
EBG Play | Robotic Process Automation – What does it mean for Procurement and Finance?
We say WOW. What HUGE interest last weeks webinar session about robotic process automation with Göran Martinsson at PwC and Buster Olsborn at Basware generated. Across the globe and across functions. Thank you all who joined us live and all of you who registered. Leading up to this webinar EBG wrote a statement saying “In […]
EBG | Play: How do you digitize your sourcing strategy and operations?
Digitizing all parts of doing business is on everybody’s lips. Yet it proves to be challenging for most. Why? During a webinar focusing on digitizing sourcing strategies and operations some clues were given. How automated and digitized is your sourcing process? 5% of the attendees use a full eSourcing cycle end to end..but 43% manage […]
EBG | Play: Laerdal’s Procurement digitization journey
For what reasons are you digitizing and digitalizing – what is you digitization journey like? Reducing manual labor, minimizing paper, increasing information quality, speeding up decision making? During a recent webinar we got to learn from the Laerdal transformation journey. Joanne Emslie Bornø, Category manager at Laerdal Medical gave us a step by step run […]
EBG | Play: Commercial Risks: Collaborative Solutions
What do you get when you gather three men and a woman to discuss how to tackle current issues in the supply chain? Considering and creating a checklist to develop ahead? You get an energized session filled with reflections and concrete touch points for You who work with procurement and your supply chain. Find solutions, […]
EBG | Play: Finance and procurement – a fine romance or the best of enemies?
How can it be that it is still so hard to collaborate across functions? To find ways to ensure those great strategies are realized, savings met, automation enabled and cash optimization ensured. Welcome to not only re-view the recent session enabled by Basware but also send in questions and answer the poll questions! How does […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
Beyond trends from industry experts | I
By ebgnetwork
On March 12th, EBG | Network, Procurement Insights and Zycus gather forces and bring you a panel of experienced professionals. They will be giving you their views on what current and future trends mean for procurement. Here you can learn more about the webinar on March 12th and register David Loseby, one of the panelists […]
People | Process | Technology = what?!
By ebgnetwork
Not too rarely EBG | Network speak to professionals with One aspect of a strategy in total focus. “We want to discuss digitalization!” or “We want to talk about implementing a system” or “We need to talk about data management!” or “We must discuss centralization” or “Compliance is what we need to talk about”. And […]
EBG | Insight: CPO talk with Per Hill – finding ways to be both efficient and effective
By ebgnetwork
Aligning procurement targets to company targets, supporting the business and delivering results. Easily said but not so easily achieved? In far too many situations procurement and finance functions find themselves not reaching set targets, or trying to reach targets that simply aren’t aligned with overall business targets. What happen then is frustrated managers and even […]
EBG | Insight: End-to-end perspective summit from source to pay
By ebgnetwork
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
EBG Webinar: Enabling purchase-to-pay spend control linking strategies, processes and technology together
By ebgnetwork
Date: Thursday November 5th Time: 11:00-11:45 AM CET (12:00-12:45 Finnish time) Language: English Location: Your computer/phone/tablet Cost: Free of charge but requires registration Organizer: EBG | Network & OpusCapita >>Click here to register NOTE: This webinar has over 120 registrants and take 100 attendees joining live. Should you not be able to join the session […]
EBG | Insight: EFFSO about the development in category management BPO in the Nordics
By ebgnetwork
Outsourcing has been a part of strategies in a number of business areas due to different reasons. One main reason being to focus on core business processes and let other professionals take care of manual and transactional processes and flows. One, perhaps even bigger reason, has been to reduce cost – cutting wage arbitrage has […]
EBG | Insight: CFO Talk with Mikael Ebefors – Shared Competence Center’s part of end-to-end control enablement
By ebgnetwork
Centralizing finance has been a strategy for many years now. The initial reasons are often to reduce administration costs and lower wage arbitrage as well as enable transactional control. Moving from a pure transactional perspective place other opportunities and challenges in the center such as: How can downstream accounts payable help develop upstream procurement and […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Play: Procurement AI: From Promise To Realization
By ebgnetwork
End September great minds met online to discuss digitalization in general and Artificial Intelligence impact on procurement specifically. Why so? On April 10th 2018, 25 European countries signed a Declaration of cooperation on Artificial Intelligence. It builds further on the achievements and investments of the European research and business community in AI. Given this announcement, […]
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
By ebgnetwork
Since the COVID-19 pandemic is not a Black Swan – i.e we should have predicted and prepared for it. One may wonder if disruption is or will be the new normal? We may say “hopefully not” and the question still remain – what can we learn from disruptions like the ones we are currently facing? […]
EBG | Webinar: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?
By ebgnetwork
Transforming the supply chain process with augmented intelligence – a far stretch from the reality many organizations face today? Data is the lifeblood of business in the information age. Hence, gathering and analyzing mission-critical data from different sources is increasingly important. Vast amounts of business-critical data reside in silos, is manually handled and reactively communicated. […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
EBG | Play: Global CSR Risk & Performance: Insights From The 2017 Index
By ebgnetwork
What happens if you decide to take a deep look into years of quality data based on thousands and thousands of companies actual performances? Great insights of course. EcoVadis did just that and gathered the data into a first Global CSR Risk & Performance index. EBG | Network are happy to share the recorded webinar […]
EBG | Play: Beckers Groups sustainability change management journey
By ebgnetwork
How to move from silo CSR and sustainability code of conduct website statements to active performance measures and supplier collaboration activities is increasingly important for most large organizations. EBG | Network was happy to be able to share – in much detail – the work made by Beckers Group and not the least Thomas Lüder, […]
EBG | Play: How do you re-build an anti-fragile supply chain?
By ebgnetwork
Since the COVID-19 pandemic is not a Black Swan – i.e we should have predicted and prepared for it. One may wonder if disruption is or will be the new normal? We may say “hopefully not” and the question still remain – what can we learn from disruptions like the ones we are currently facing? […]
EBG | Insight: The Platformification of Procurement with Kodiak Rating
By ebgnetwork
How do you scale solutions you already have or consider growing that platform of capabilities you wish you had? EBG | Network tuned in with Sam Jenks and Ashley Stephenson at Kodiak Rating to hear their view on how to enable procurement to utilize the possibilities out there. It is not shortage of technology that […]