Not surprising Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) was high on the agenda and debated during EBGs recent CPO Outlook in Stockholm. Present AI use cases in procurement The response to the question how AI is affecting procurement organizations in the room now – the general answer was “Not at all” even though CoPilot, […]
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EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: Leveraging GenAI to Re-invent the Role of Procurement
Not surprising Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) was high on the agenda and debated during EBGs recent CPO Outlook in Stockholm. Present AI use cases in procurement The response to the question how AI is affecting procurement organizations in the room now – the general answer was “Not at all” even though CoPilot, […]
EBG | Webinar: Optimizing Spend Management challenging existing processes?
Hands up how many have or have tried a “No Po No Pay policy”? EBG have enabled discussions around it several times since 2010. One of the main challenges – how do you actually get stakeholders to comply with set up processes? In a day and age where technology is evolving rapidly – is there […]
EBG | Summit News
Keelvar join CPO Outlook 2024
EBG | Network welcome Keelvar joining CPO Outlook 2024 on October 15th & 16th in Stockholm. They bring extensive knowledge in sourcing optimization. During CPO Outlook you can choose to take part in their Theme Discussions – round table discussions to draw from their and your peers experiences. Their discussions will focus on; How do you […]
CPO Outlook 2024 | Risk & Sustainability in procurement
Risk & Sustainability from a Procurement perspective – to what extent can and should procurement be supply and supplier related sustainability topics subject matter experts? …of course procurement are asked to take the lead? What does the rapid regulatory development (due to too little progress being seen) mean to existing and future procurement organizations? To […]
GEP join CPO Outlook 2024
A warm welcome to GEP joining CPO Outlook 2024 as an Expert Organization. GEP bring broad experiences to the summit from across the globe. During CPO Outlook 2024 you who join can take part in their round table discussions focusing on; Procurement in 2030. How will Generative AI impact S2P? The disruption brought by artificial […]
CPO Outlook 2024 | Change management in procurement
Change management from a procurement perspective. Or should we say business as usual (or unusual) One may argue that many change initiatives fail. One may also argue that change happen all the time – it is more the timelines that don’t ad up. Also the Why may stumble. I find procurement really interesting since reaching […]
EBG | Insights
EBG | Insight: Supplier management and master data with HICX
Hands up if you have ever experienced challenges with supplier related data spread across systems and functions. Looking at your supplier data – how many different ways and times can data be entered? What if you could join a platform that could work across system silos (ERP and P2P systems for instance)? That enable companies […]
EBG | Insight: Unifying control with common strategies enabling global purchasing power
There are few global organizations who are not looking at ways to leverage on their global purchasing power. Finding ways to unify control and execute common strategies along the procure to pay process takes time but is a crucial part in controlling spend, finding ways to reduce cost and enabling transactional follow up and control. […]
EBG | Insight: Swedish government taking public sector e-procurement one step further
The Swedish National Financial Management Authority are recommending the use of PEPPOL infrastructure and message formats being used in future procurement and finance operations to and from public sector. The PEPPOL structure is aimed at cross border business and cross border transactions being sent. It can be used – as it is to some […]
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 | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Supply Chain Risk Management Journey – Insights and Strategies from Tetra Pak
As a global company, Tetra Pak faces various challenges arising from an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment. Driven by strategic objectives focused on quality and food safety, sustainability and compliance, as well as competitiveness and innovation. Tetra Pak seeks to balance effectiveness vs efficiency in supply chain risk management. Now you […]
EBG | Play: How AI is changing Procurement in 2021 and beyond
A subtitle could also be “What do you know about your cash position from an end to end perspective?”. This session enabled by Medius – which you can view or re-view below – have a two part story. One, and possibly the most important, is the – still – dilemma companies face when procurement and […]
EBG Play: Sourcing & Procurement BPO Benchmark
Almost six months ago, EBG held the first Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Sourcing & Procurement BPO and Finance & Accounting BPO. Or – really – we focused on how large organizations tend to develop their operations and beyond. Within finance and accounting there has been a trend for a long time to centralize and […]
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 | 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: Procurement AI: From Promise To Realization
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, […]
Focus Area: Source to Pay
EBG | Insight: What is procurement transformation?
By ebgnetwork
Gathering different type professionals in a room – real or virtual – and allowing the group to share experiences is what EBG is all about. At Source to Pay Summit 2015 Andreas Bivall at Boliden moderated Theme Discussions about transforming procurement and below is a recorded summary interview about what was said. Next Source to […]
EBG Play: Source to Pay panel discussion on how to develop world class compliance
By ebgnetwork
There are numerous finance, procurement, CRM and other systems in the market. A lot has happened in the past, systems are merged as are companies. Finding the balance between knowing exactly what your organization is spending, how and why, is a challenge in itself. At Source to Pay Summit 2014 EBG brought together wise men […]
EBG | Insight: Working capital the essence of procure to pay efficiency
By ebgnetwork
Ravindra Rao is Finance Director & Global PMO Leader at Honeywell. His knowledge in cross functional, cross organizational, cross industry process development comes from years of experiences. For ten years he has been working at Honeywell with finance transformation. Their strategy has been to pay vendors on time and work with both internal and external […]
How to master supplier communication and data
By ebgnetwork
If you could line up all the supplier data in your critical and non critical systems – how many miles would they reach? How much time is spent managing poor data? How many decisions may have been conducted based on non optimal information? The discussion about how to tackle the often thousands of suppliers and […]
Focus Area: Procurement
CFO Talk with Nuno Guerreiro at Sonae about touchless processes and the need for stakeholder management
By ebgnetwork
As downstream Shared Service Centers find themselves managing numerous errors, realizing the need for upstream process development, the question is – how do you enforce that? If touchless processes are the goal – in what ways do you influence metrics and behavior in sourcing and procurement departments? Nuno Guerreiro, Head of Accounts Payable at Sonae […]
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 | Play: Solving the e-procurement user adoption challenge
By ebgnetwork
The title of this webinar holds many promises. Could there be a single formula that enable organizations to use systems as intended? May it be the way they are implemented, how many hours are spent on education, how processes are set up or who are able to use it. Of course all of that matters […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
By ebgnetwork
Is there a correlation? Between being resilient and sustainable? EBG | Network had the pleasure of hosting a webinar where Pete Rau, Operations Manager at EcoVadis shared his view in the matter. What did the audience think? As always with live poll questions there are additional questions and reflections coming up after poll results are […]
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 | Insight: What is your contract management status?
By ebgnetwork
EBG | Network continuously ask “the market” questions to try to learn more about what are prioritized areas and what the challenges are. Managing contract life cycles is such an area. Consider the amount of time spent and the trust built with numerous suppliers and still it has been really challenging enabling contract usage and […]
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: Deploying supplier CSR monitoring across a global purchasing organization
By ebgnetwork
What do you think are sourcing and procurement key focus areas today and going ahead? Risk management is probably in the top areas as are reducing cost. If you ask where CSR and sustainability come in – how do you think those aspects rate? In a recent study made by Silf in Sweden, the number […]
EBG | Play: Resilience and Sustainable Procurement
By ebgnetwork
Is there a correlation? Between being resilient and sustainable? EBG | Network had the pleasure of hosting a webinar where Pete Rau, Operations Manager at EcoVadis shared his view in the matter. What did the audience think? As always with live poll questions there are additional questions and reflections coming up after poll results are […]
Scope and type supply chain risk monitored
By ebgnetwork
For the third year in a row, EBG | Network are happy to invite you to join a supply chain risk management overview webinar. Tua Forsell, Head of Continuous Improvement and Risk Management, Global Operations at Nokia share her insights during a riskmethods enabled webinar. There is still time to register go here to learn […]