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 […]
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: Experiences in procurement outsourcing
As businesses evolve the view on procurement changes from a low cost, cost reduction and transaction effective angle to an at least more diversified view depending on type business, maturity level and know-how. The Hackett Group state that centralizing and possibly outsourcing of procurement has a high growth rate and looking at the challenges and […]
EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
Have you heard of Kate Vitasek? I bet you have because in the past couple of years, her name and Vested has grown to be almost household in the supply chain and procurement industry. All want to talk about win-win relationships with strategic partners and most agree that there are values that businesses miss out […]
EBG | Insight: Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, Governance & Risk
In our second interview with Francesco Colavita, Vice President Solution Architecture & Value Engineering – Europe at JAGGAER we go through Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, Governance & Risk. It will be impossible to think of corporate 2020 without thinking about all discussions taking risk management into account . For obvious reasons. Supplier Relationship Management: Relationship, […]
EBG | Insight: Changing transaction platform with 170+ countries
Imagine having to comply with 170 or so country specifications when communicating paperless with customers and suppliers. That was the case when Alcatel Lucent some five years ago chose to use their own paperless platform rather than buying an existing one. Since then the market has changed. And what better way to prove that so […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Actionable data insights in a complex organization during digital transformation
This session have several layers. Individual courage, corporate visions and market challenges. Many industries are facing changing market environments due to raw material shortages. Challenges keeping up to customer demands asking for shorter delivery times and price reductions. Finding ways to ensure data streams are up to date, used as intended and continuously improved. Qlik […]
EBG | Play: Deliver cost control through your non-permanent workforce?
43% of the average enterprise’s overall workforce is now considered contract, contingent or non-employee and is built on freelancers, independent contractors, professional services and traditional temporary workers – up from just 20 percent a decade ago*. That is a staggering fact. During a recent webinar with Beeline facts and figures were run through. The direct […]
EBG | Play: Public sector contract compliance and spend control
In a popular webinar Daniel Nesz at Södersjukhuset AB shared how they have used a Qlik solution to increase visibility and control over both contract compliance and spend pattern overview. Public sector have a never ending demand to use money wisely as well as having extensive legal aspects of how, with who and in what […]
EBG | Play: How will you manage cash, savings and supplier risk ahead?
The past year and a half has brought with it market changes. Changes in where supplies come from, who buy it and how it is followed up upon. Corcentric have followed the market development carefully and through research they identified three areas of especial interest for businesses ahead; cash, savings and risk. Here you can […]
EBG | Play: The Journey to Smarter Business Spend Management
Organizations have had to “react and respond” by immediately pivoting and adapting to fast-changing government advice and regulations, as well as navigating to a “new normal” of greater supplier risk management and more agile investment decision-making. One of the most remarkable aspects of the Covid crisis is seeing how communities have come together to face […]
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 Play: Kate Vitasek | Do you have a collaborative strategy or not?
By ebgnetwork
There is a lot of talk about collaborative and connective relationships. It is fare to say that the possibilities today could enable a completely seamless and transparent approach to doing business. So are we? Take a look at and listen to two snapshots from this years Source to Pay Summit where Kate Vitasek gave a […]
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: 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 […]
Focus Area: Procurement
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 […]
EBG | Play: Historic spend and future needs
By ebgnetwork
EBG | Network want to send a big thank you to Irene Tibbling at Stora Enso who generously shared her sourcing and procurement visualization experiences. Also a big thank you to Qlik (in Swedish go to Qlik) who enabled the webinar to take place. Webinar recording Here you can view the recorded webinar session: Poll […]
EBG | Insight: Kate Vitasek about old sourcing models being incomplete
By ebgnetwork
Have you heard of Kate Vitasek? I bet you have because in the past couple of years, her name and Vested has grown to be almost household in the supply chain and procurement industry. All want to talk about win-win relationships with strategic partners and most agree that there are values that businesses miss out […]
Focus Area: Sourcing
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 | 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 | 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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]