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: 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 | Insight: 4 companies, 3 questions about financial supply chain developments
EBG recently met up with Esa Tihilä, Basware, Jonas Edlund, Pagero, Markus Ament, Taulia and Kai Finck, Ariba an SAP Company to ask about the market developments within the financial supply chain market. What is that then, really? Well, it may of course be anything from ERP systems, to workflow systems, to e-invoicing to supply […]
EBG | Insight: ROI, obstacles and future proof P2P
The other day EBG | Network “met” with Eric Wilson, Vice President Purchase to pay with Basware in the US. We spoke about his experiences in creating purchase to pay business cases, ensuring ROI, how to ensure success and how to future proof purchase to pay development.
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 | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: How do you manage Business Control in transformation?
How are you handling the gray zones in between functions? Are you able to free up time in order to capture opportunities in the gray zones between functions? Doing just that is the focus for Volvo Group and Volvo Group Trucks Operations and below You can learn how. Marcus Sjöholm, VP SML Business Control at […]
EBG | Play: Aligning procurement & finance reducing wasteful spending
Aligning procurement and finance is an always returning topic within EBG | Network. Separate functions, KPIs, systems and how about organizations and even countries. It is not an easy task but the outcome can make huge difference. Difference on bottom line figures, difference enabling an organization to use correct data growing further and difference ensuring […]
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: Benchmark your source-to-pay performance against the best
The idea of “the best” in process automation may be shifting. From lowering the number of FTEs and SLAs focusing on transactional efficiency. To improved value creation and data insights fed back to the organization. How do you get there and how do you know where Your organization stands? Take a look at the on […]
EBG | Play: Building Partner Enabled Digital Offerings through AI
Facts and fiction. It is evident – through numerous research reports – that procurement and supply chain are not using for instance Artificial Intelligence in any major way. Yet. McKinsey state that a mere 2% of respondents have a supply chain oriented digital strategy. Deloitte state “The level and speed of digitalisation across procurement functions […]
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
EBG | Play: Structuring global procurement
By ebgnetwork
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 […]
EBG | Interview: Part II | Visibility, control, and compliance by digitising Source-to-pay processes
By ebgnetwork
In the second interview part, interviewing Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development at Zycus, we continue to discuss challenges and opportunities advancing procurement digitization. Or – rather – gathering and sharing those huge amounts of data floating around in any large company and making the best of it. Richard come from years of working with procurement […]
EBG | Insight: Basware reflections and advice
By ebgnetwork
As companies get out of the first acute crisis mode there may be time to reflect. How much insight did we have into our spend and cash? How dependent on manual touches are you to get your source to pay processes through? How well can you use your entire spend and cash data to predict […]
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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
Sourcing Outlook recap and Post Summit Report
By ebgnetwork
The first Sourcing Outlook took place in Stockholm end October 2017. Creating and hosting a second annual conference wasn’t an easy decision – it had to be with a focus that felt fresh and to-the-point. Sourcing success due to business – buyer and supplier collaboration EBG decided from the get go that one aspect had […]
EBG | Insight: ROI, obstacles and future proof P2P
By ebgnetwork
The other day EBG | Network “met” with Eric Wilson, Vice President Purchase to pay with Basware in the US. We spoke about his experiences in creating purchase to pay business cases, ensuring ROI, how to ensure success and how to future proof purchase to pay development.
EBG | Webinar: Supply Chain Risk Management – tips and insights from Husqvarna Group
By ebgnetwork
As supply chains become increasingly global, diverse, complex and important – so does calculating and reducing risk. Most procurement and supply chain professionals probably recognize this as one of your top priorities? And would you agree that it is becoming increasingly important with multiple ways of analyzing and communicating possible risk scenarios – before they […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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 […]
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 | 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 […]
Focus Area: Risk Management & Sustainability
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: 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 | 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 […]
EBG | Play: Leveraging Automation to Help Manage Supplier Risk
By ebgnetwork
Disruptions are shaping the future and supplier risk and performance management now needs to become supplier value management. Recognizing the benefits of collaboration and integration across the entire supplier lifecycle. Statements made during the now On demand available webinar EBG hosted together with KPMG and Coupa. During a fact and insight filled hour Björn Borgman, […]