In a world vested with awards (we are a co-culprit), Tieto together with Bottomline and Nordea Bank won the joint award for their SWIFT e-invoicing solution.

The Financial-i award recognises Bottomline, Tieto and Nordea for using the global SWIFT Network for the transmission of e-invoices.

To achieve this a collaboration between the joint winners at a technical and business level was necessary. The SWIFT e-invoicing project started back in May 2011 and has gone from a concept to a live solution in that time.

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Markus Hautala, responsible for Financial Messaging services at Tieto:

“We consider all our customers to be unique – the way they are organized, to what degree their processes have been centralized, and how their IT infrastructures have been designed. We go the extra mile to understand our customers’ circumstances and how our services can be customized to meet their specific needs.”

About Financial-i

Financial-i Leaders in Innovation awards recognize those companies that demonstrate an ongoing commitment and investment in innovation, which positively impacts end users. When selecting winners, the criteria considered include:

• innovativeness,
• functionalities,
• differentiation,
• ease of customer implementation
• the extent to which the solution will help companies solve business issues.

The winners are chosen by an awards advisory panel, which includes industry analysts, consultants and practitioners.

To find out more http://www.financial-i.com/awards/

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Tieto wins Financial-i award for the SWIFT e-invoicing solutions.

On 17 January 2012 the Holland Casino Rotterdam, the Netherlands is the venue of the first edition of the XS Invoice Conference. The 2012 XS Invoice Conference is a spin off from the highly successful XL version.

2012 XS Invoice Conference

The 2012 XS Invoice Conference distincts itself by free access for end-users, 1-on-1 discussions and practical expert sessions. Have your plans for e-invoicing or AP automation in 2012 assessed by some of the top providers.

Use their feedback and the information from the practical expert sessions to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. That way after only one afternoon you have everything to successfully kick-start your e-invoicing or AP automation project in 2012.

Why attend the 2012 XS Invoice Conference?

Reasons

• A quality plenary program quality
• 8 + practical expert sessions
• Convenient 1-on-1 discussions (anonymous *)
• Let professionals assess your plans for free
• A kick-start on e-invoicing
• Free access (end-users only)
• Including lunch and dinner
• You will receive a special edition of the Invoice Monitor
• Free casino visit, explanation and game-money
• We guarantee that all your questions will be answered

Note: The plenary program and expert sessions are all in Dutch.

More information

Registration

Some more information

The preparations for the program are in full swing, so we already unveil some parts:

Plenary program

During the plenary session you get fully informed on the latest developments, trends and pitfalls in electronic invoicing and invoice automation. Key subjects are the recently introduced Purchase to Pay Efficiency Index and a Special Edition of the Invoice Monitor.
More about the plenary program

Practical expert sessions

Would you like to receive those nifty high impacts tips on e-billing or invoice automation? The 8 practical expert sessions deal with the most asked questions from the daily practice.
See the expert sessions

Anonymous 1-on-1 interviews

Based on the invoice characteristics filled out in the registration form, you receive invite from top-providers for a brief 1-on-1 interview. During an interview you van anonymously * inform them about your plans for electronic invoicing or invoice automation in 2012 and in turn get feedback and useful tips.
* = the providers do not have your contact information. You decide whether and when you disclose this information.
Fill in the registration form

Visit the casino, receive game-money, game explanation

You will be welcomed in the luxurious and inspiring environment of the Holland Casino Rotterdam. During the 2012 XS Invoice Conference program you can enjoy: game explanation at the ‘ big roller ‘ table, receive free game-money (chips) and offered delicious food and drinks.

Tip! If you have any questions? Contact us.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Do you want to have your 2012 e-invoicing or AP automation plans assessed for free?.

At the “Power of the Platform – Europe” event you will be able to experience how Descartes and InterCommIT join their forces and move forward.

The “Power of the Platform – Europe” event combines educational sessions and live technology demonstrations to show you the abilities and advantages of the Descartes Logistics Technology Platform for your business.

Check out more information and agenda details.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Meet Descartes and InterCommIT.

OB10 also communicated that they set a new benchmark for quality assurance, extended their compliance reach, appointed a Chief Quality Officer and are hosting a OB10 Buyer User Group.

Setting a new benchmark for quality assurance

OB10 moved from SAS 70 to ISAE 3402, the new global standard for internal operational controls.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP performed the independent assurance work that makes OB10 one of the first global service organisations to make this move.

Luke McKeever, CEO at OB10:

• “The transition to ISAE 3402 has required us to prove our ability to meet a number of very stringent operating requirements.”
• “This demonstrates our credentials as a well-managed and carefully controlled international enterprise that clients can rely upon as we continue to support their own audit requirements.”

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OB10 extends their compliance reach

OB10 is now compliant in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Mexico, making them legally compliant in 38 countries.

Markus Hornburg, VP Product Development and Compliance:

• “Compliance is more than simply a sentence in our marketing materials. It is a critical part of the invoicing process that ensures our customers can trade with confidence.”

OB10 CQO appointed

Reinforcing their commitment to quality, compliance and operational controls, OB10 appointed Chris Lowrie as Chief Quality Officer (CQO).

As an extension to his current role as Senior VP, Development for OB10, Chris Lowrie introduces  formal, quality oriented, cross-functional management practices that should enhance OB10’s position as a service-centric organisation.

Chris Lowrie as Chief Quality Officer (CQO):

• “A key focus for me is to help make OB10 totally customer centric. We want all our customers to be advocates for the OB10 service; this will be our key measure of success.”
• “This challenges us to adjust aspects of our organisation so that we are aligned with our customer values. We are making changes to strategies, organisational design, business processes, performance measures, and the information and support we provide.”

OB10 Buyer User Group event

OB10 is hosting their annual event for OB10 buyer customers on 1 December at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The event’s agenda includes the OB10 product roadmap and latest developments. Some of the speakers are:

• Roland van den Bossche, Process Manager P2P & Supplier Integration, European Procurement at Unilever, who will share his OB10 story.
• Susie West, CEO at sharedserviceslink.com. We’re expecting a stimulating debate!

If you’re an OB10 buyer customer and haven’t received your invitation, you can register here.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: OB10 news: from SAS 70 to ISAE 3402, extending geographical compliance, a CQO and the annual buyer user event.

Luke McKeever, recently appointed CEO at OB10, said “I’m honoured to receive this award on behalf of OB10 and our customers as we rid the world of paper invoices.”

The editorial team and all of our readers applaud and say: congratulation!

Green Apple Award by the The Green Organisation

Organised by The Green Organisation, an independent, non-profit group dedicated to recognising and promoting environmental best practice, the Green Apple awards are the results of a national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities.

Roger Wolens, Director at The Green Organisation said. “There are 150 billion paper invoices produced each year and OB10 renders most of them redundant. The judges found that ‘ridding the world of paper invoices’ was not just a slogan, but a definite ambition for OB10”

Luke McKeever, CEO at OB10 added: “As more companies join our network and we develop new services, the environmental benefits we deliver through e-Invoicing we will continue to contribute towards a long-term, sustainable future.”

We wonder who would push OB10 from the throne for next year’s Green Apple election.

UPDATE (17/11): OB10 was also rewarded the Green Supply Chain Award for the second consecutive time.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: CONGRATS: OB10 receives Green Apple Award and Green Supply Chain Award [UPDATE].

But what  if e-billing (and all the other e-thingies) can actually help to save lives. We know that sounds nuts, but this one could actually be true. Just imagine, the e-invoicing service provider community (SWIFT, Huballiance, EESPA, Peppol, e-prior) as live saver. A Nobel Price and Time’s most valuable person title is just a around the corner. Bare with me.

Introducing RHoK: Random Hacks of Kindness

The RHoK is unique in the space of “apps competitions”, “hackathons” and “technology for social good”. Their mission is to make the world a better place through a global community of innovation developing practical open technology.

RHoK’s model is to start from identifying, defining and refining problem definitions provided by subject matter experts and local stakeholders. This ensures that volunteer time is focused on solving real problems for real people.

The e-billing solution for clean drinking water in Botswana

This is the situation in Botswana according to RHoK: a large percentage of Botswana’s population is a risk of having their water services disconnected simply because they do not receive their water bills. The national water utility struggles to provide timely billing based on current amounts. Regular bills are crucial for low-income households in order to adequately budget for all household needs. Delayed and accumulated bills leave households unable to meet their responsibilities.

Facts:

• The majority of Botswana residents have access to high standard water in their home.
• Cell phone access and coverage is close to universal.
• Literacy is high (84 %).
• SMS is cheap, even for lower income households.

Opportunity:

The Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) is ready to implement a solution at the end of the event.

The proposed solution:

A solutions that allow a customer with a basic cell phone to:

1. Register their phone number to their water billing account by SMS
2. Receive a monthly message with the amount they owe
3. Allow an individual to send in their billing account number and get the amount they owe in real time
4. Have the system send a SMS receipt of payment within 24 hours

So become the first BSPOK (Billing Service Provider of Kindness), join in and help Botswana here.

UPDATE 14/11/2011: It seems that the NMB Bank from Tanzania just launched such a mobile-phone bill payment service as requested above.

The service allows over 550,000 bank customers to pay their bills using mobile phones -Tigo, Vodacom, Airtel and Zantel – to access their accounts and settle their dues without visiting a bank nor revenue offices.

NMB mobile service already allows mobile-phone customers to access banking services such as balance view, money transfer service, mini-statement and mobile phone air time top up.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Can electronic billing actually save lives in Botswana? UPDATE.

This post is transposed from Oriol Bausà’s original post: http://blog.invinet.org/?p=951

Billentis’ Bruno Koch managed to build bridges between Europe and America this time, organizing a well-balanced EXPP conference with speakers of both sides of the Atlantic. We had the opportunity to know how they are implementing electronic invoicing on both continents. It was very interesting to see the results in accordance with the policies that have been established in recent years.

Latin America
In Latin America, the main catalyst for the deployment of the electronic invoice is the tax fraud control. The laws of some Latin American countries have made it possible for the electronic invoice to reach a market penetration level of up to 90% and growing in a fast pace during recent years.

Service providers in Latin America assist in thousands of monthly transactions and the growth is exponential. This has led some European providers attaching themselves to these markets by introducing their services and products.

Europe
In contrast, the main force behind the deployment of electronic billing in Europe is not the tax control, it is the competitiveness of enterprises. Becoming more agile and being able to improve their processes and efficiency have been the main challenges marking Europe for more than a decade.

With this policy, the adoption of electronic invoicing is up to the companies, which are free to choose whether a change of this type is beneficial or not. In Europe a lot of training is necessary to convince CEOs and CFOs that the change from paper processes to electronic processes is really worthwhile and offers them real benefits.

Equal treatment and digital signatures
Therefore, the principles of “equal-treatment” (equal treatment between paper invoices and electronic invoices) are still the guiding messages from the EC.Producing electronic invoices should be as simple as making paper invoices, and therefore technical barriers that could be considered an obstacle to its adoption in enterprises, should disappear.

It’s funny how some companies (especially auditing) confuse this effort to simplify the way of the adoption of electronic invoicing in Europe by eliminating the requirement for electronic signatures, with the imposition of complex controls and audits that should guarantee the traceability of business operations.

Once again the process is considered to be very complex and expensive when in fact it is not. Our interpretation of the new directive is that electronic invoices are to be audited as paper invoices. Point.

Advantages and disadvantages
Regarding the continental approaches, both have advantages and disadvantages. In Latin America electronic invoicing is getting a high level of penetration, but only for tax purposes. Much remains to be done in the field of process integration between companies. Define the processes, establish required information models (in Mexico encapsulated in Addenda) and homogenise them to provide the knowledge that every company can benefit from these electronic processes, is their next challenge.

In the European case, the lack of obligation only enables the adoption to grow by proven profit. This results in a slow take-off for electronic invoicing in the European B2B market, but in return, users are presented with some environments and tools that will greatly facilitate the digitization of its processes. Initiatives such as the CEN BII or PEPPOL are driving this change.

National standards versus interoperability
Oriol Bausà of Invinet made ??a presentation on national standards and the road to interoperability in Europe. The message of this paper is that we cannot pretend to have a single language for electronic invoicing in Europe.

There have been too many investments in national standards written in different languages, which means that in this situation, one central language does not meet the specific requirements of each country.

What we can do is build European interoperability as one builds a castle amongst all participants, taking into account the particularities of each individual. This is what the EC does with projects such as the CEN BII or pilot deployment as PEPPOL border. PEPPOL builds bridges between communities that have their own electronic billing systems, functions as the path towards interoperability in Europe and, why not, between Europe and Latin America.

Conclusions: PDF is at its peak
Bruno Koch’s conclusions at the close of the event emphasized the differences between these two approaches and pointed to trends in the market for electronic invoicing in Europe, both from the point of view of operators and from the point of view from formats to be used: In this aspect we are currently at the peak of maximum use of PDF as the format of electronic invoices tend to grow toward a greater adoption of PDF + XML invoices while invoices in EDI format are going to be stuck in the existing models.

Source: Invinet Sistemes

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: EXPP Summit 2011 in Barcelona: observations.

And like last year, Sibos facilitates several e-invoicing sessions.

SESSION 1: E-invoicing – a fast evolving landscape

• Where?
  Community room 1
• When?
  Tuesday, September 20 at 9:50 AM
• Topic?
  E-invoicing is starting to boom. Corporates are implementing electronic invoicing across the world. Most e-invoicing service providers are now linking up together to speed up adoption. How much faster will corporate adoption take place? How should banks react?

  An insight into the critical role that invoicing plays within cash life-cycle management and how banks can use e-invoicing as an opportunity for customer growth and retention.

• Panellists?
  Chris Bozek, Managing Director, Head of Global Trade and Supply Chain Products, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  - Eric Campbell, Chief Technology Officer, Bottomline Technologies
  - Ifor Williams, Senior Vice President, Fundtech FSC
  - Keijo Kettunen, Head of payment transactions, State Treasury of Finland
  - Susie West (Moderator) , CEO, sharedserviceslink.com

SESSION 2: Understanding E-Invoicing Options and Revenue Opportunities

• Where?
  Open Theatre 1
• When?
  Tuesday, September 20 at 2:00 PM
• Topic?
  Electronic invoicing is clearly on the minds of corporate treasurers, banks and SWIFT. But for banks, where is the revenue? And how can banks leverage the SWIFT network for e-invoicing? During this session, learn about all the options for creating an innovative offering to meet the needs of corporate customers today and tomorrow. Also, attendees will receive tips on creating a business case to help drive an e-invoicing from idea to conception.
• Panellists?
  - Eric Campbell, Chief Technology Officer, Bottomline Technologies
  - Marcus Hughes, Business Development Director, Bottomline Technologies

SESSION 3: e-invoicing – banks and non-banks pushing for interoperability

• Where?
  Community room 3
• When?
  Thursday, September 22 at 11:00 AM
• Topic?
  E-invoicing service providers have identified the growing need for interoperability amongst themselves to meet evolving customer demand for better reach between trading parties. Shift from a single service provider specific three corner model to a truly interoperable four corner model is inevitable, but this will only happen if parties join forces. In this session you will learn from established service providers how the customer demand is moving forward and what industry development has already taken place and what is still required to meet the market demands.
• Panellists?
  - Erkki Poutiainen, Head of Payments Infrastructure, Nordea Bank Finland Plc
  - John Salter, Head of Trade, Payments and Cards, Transactional Banking, Lloyds Banking Group

- Markus Hautala, Director, Value Networks, Tieto Finland Oy
- Marcus Hughes (Moderator), Business Development Director, Bottomline Technologies
- Paul Johnson, Director, Senior Product Manager, Global Trade & Supply Chain Products, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: 3 times e-invoicing at SIBOS 2011, Toronto.

In this webinar on 7th September at 2pm GMT FUNDtech will give you:

– A guided tour of some of the time-saving receivables functionality being used by Fundtech customers worldwide to save time and money, such as query management and integrated payments
- An exclusive look at Fundtech’s Receivables Dashboard, which pulls together transaction and management information and presents it in one view. This provides both suppliers and buyers with clear visibility of their transaction activity/status.  At a glance, receivables activity can be viewed/monitored with details on transaction volume (by country, document type etc.), DSO, trading network conversion, number of trees saved, and much more.

More information
https://fundtech.webex.com/fundtech/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=594458079

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: FUNDtech webinar: Empower your Customers and Reduce DSO with E-Receivables.

Standard in the Netherlands
“The power of AcceptEmail is that they have demonstrated that a small business is capable of setting a standard, in a world that is still dominated by large companies,” said the jury headed by Mr. Alexander Rinnooy Kan. The results of the nominations were based on originality, impact, availability and sales potential.

The best ideas are often the most simple ideas
The success of AcceptEmail is due to the fact that the idea is so simple: “Everyone wonders why this has not been invented earlier. Our next step is to introduce our concept in Europe and the rest of the world. ”

The SME Innovation Top 100 is considered the largest and most important award show for SMEs in The Netherlands.

AcceptEmail

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: AcceptEmail 3rd in SME Innovation Top 100.

Peter Downie, Global e-Invoicing Lead at HP, will reveal the three key factors that have enabled HP to convert 30,000 suppliers and 1.6 million paper invoices to pure electronic. Peter Downie is an industry expert and has been involved in the global e-Invoicing project roll-out with OB10 since the project began.

In this insightful webinar, Peter Downie will look at:
* How an organisation with a global footprint selects an
e-Invoicing network based on specific criteria
* HP’s big-bang approach that included scoping in all suppliers and all invoice types
* The targets HP set itself and how he would alter these targets with hindsight
* The three critical success factors that meant that HP is now at 75% electronic
* How HP is managing suppliers that say no – the ‘resisting one hundreds’
* How Peter Downie and the team are now focusing on reducing the electronic fall out
* The expected and unexpected benefits of e-Invoicing

e-Invoicing is a key priority for most multi-nationals right now. Take 60 minutes out of your day to learn from one of the pioneers.

Date: 7th April 2011
Time: London 15:00, Paris 16:00

Register

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: OB10 webinar: How a global technology giant converted 1.6m invoices to electronic.

This article was originally posted on Saleonl

OB10 hosted the February 26 the Webinar titled E-Invoicing vs. OCR, Getting the Most from Invoice Automation. The Webinar attracted over 130 participants eager to learn the benefits of e-Invoicing and why 5a8 it is a viable alternative to OCR.

The Webinar outlined the challenges companies face when managing an end-to-end paper invoice process and how OB10 helps to streamline that process. Financially, implementing an e-Invoicing solution requires no upfront capital expense, no licensing or maintenance fees, eliminates tasks and labor, and offers a much stronger and faster return on investment than OCR.

“There remains over 80 percent paper entrenched in today’s Accounts Payable departments and many organizations unfortunately choose OCR because they believe it will provide a significant level of automation and efficiency,” says Thayer Stewart, vice president, marketing and business development – OB10. “Many of those same companies are finding that once they’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant resources implementing an OCR solution, it’s not all it’s promised to be because you’re still dealing with paper. With e-Invoicing, the implementation is faster, the investment is only a fraction of the cost of implementing OCR and it’s a much more reliable solution.”

OCR also requires a significant investment in the installation of specific software and hardware in an Accounts Payable department that extracts invoice data from an actual paper invoice. On the other hand, e-Invoicing offers a hosted electronic network of receiving and delivering invoices (no hardware or software to install), suppliers submit invoices via a file upload or by keying into an online portal, and the cost is minimal – usually a low per-invoice transaction fee that is often less than sending invoices through the mail. With OCR, there isn’t much automation. With e-Invoicing, automation is guaranteed.

In addition, a supplier like OB10 specializes in supplier on-boarding; ensuring that a buyer’s suppliers are enrolled in the network and ready to transact. Typically many suppliers are already members of the OB10 network, making it easier for new buyer customers who choose OB10.

“At the end of the day, e-Invoicing offers much better business performance, greater compliance and substantial cost savings over OCR,” added Stewart. “The more organizations look at e-Invoicing as a viable alternative to OCR, the more we believe they’ll make the decision to choose solutions like OB10.”

Source: Saleonl

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: OB10 outlines advantages of e-Invoicing over OCR.

Unlike large enterprises, midsize businesses are being asked to accomplish these critical activities with limited IT budget or small IT staff – or a combination of both. If you are facing similar challenges and growth opportunities, join us on Wednesday, March 30th, at 4:00 pm CET (central European time) for a live webinar that will examine cost effective data integration approaches, methodologies, and technologies. This presentation will explore a range of available data integration and management solution offerings – from on-premise software you can run yourself to fully managed B2B integration and business process management where we do the work for you – including the business case, enabling technologies, and best practices.

Richard van der Hoek, European Manager IT with O’Neill, and Hans Mellenbergh, eSolutions Consultant with Liaison, will share their views on setting a course towards a more agile, efficient, and cost effective approach to data integration that will allow your business to scale on-demand, and at the same time significantly reduce costs.

Moderator:
- Christopher Hale, Vice President of Global Product Marketing at Liaison Technologies

More information an registration

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Webinar enterprise data integration for the mid-market.

Find the answers at our event on Tuesday, March 29th from 11.30 until 14.30h.

After having introduced both Pyramid and Anachron – the organizers of the seminar – we will pass on the word to our joint customer Adecco. Filip Vercammen from Adecco will clarify how and why Adecco has recently re-organized and outsourced the sending of their huge amount of administrative documents (e.g. invoices, associate contracts, pay slips, timesheets etc.).

Any doubts about the legal aspects of e-Invoicing and/or e-Documents? No worries, Geert Bogaert from PWC will clarify the Belgian and European legislation to you.

Before and after the presentations, you will have the opportunity to ask your questions to the hosts and guest speakers while enjoying a sandwich lunch in the charming atmosphere of domein Terassel in Meise, located only 5 minutes away from the Ring of Brussels.

As we appreciate your time and presence, we offer you the chance to win a nice give away after the presentations. Your chances to win this IT-gadget will increase if you arrive on time and attend the presentations.

So, don’t miss this event and register today by sending an e-mail to marketing@anachron.com.

PS: If you’re not able to attend our event, but you’re interested in having more information on our offering, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Anachron

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Anachron event on the 29th of March.

The fourth Dutch Invoice Conference will take place on tuesday, May 17th in Eindhoven. As a result of the success of the two previous editions, the Evoluon Conference Centre will again host the biggest event

Free access
Organizations who have implemented invoice automation and e-invoicing, or are planning to do so in the near future, are categorized as target group visitors and are entitled to free admission.

Information market
Subjects such as e-invoicing, e-billing, e-invoicing, invoice automation, digitization and information logistics, complemented with payment products and services: the combination of the Invoice Conference and Payment Conference is the best opportunity to obtain  information, watch demonstrations and make contact.

Plenary Programme
The 2011 edition starts with a compact plenary program packed with essential information. Keynote speeches from home and abroad, the latest trends in the Netherlands and Europe and the announcement of the winners of the Golden Invoices 2011. These are some of the highlights in the plenary programme.

Practice Sessions
Case Presentations offer visitors the opportunity to get an insight into the latest developments on e-invoicing, invoice automation and payments.

Golden Invoices
At the Invoice Conference, the best practical cases deserve the Golden Invoices 2011. During the plenary program, two Golden Invoices will be handed out by an expert panel. The winner of the Public’s Choice Award will be determined on the spot: the public can vote via SMS and Twitter.

E-invoicing trend map
Every year, usage data on e-invoicing and invoice automation is summarized and clearly explained in the independent Invoice Monitor. In 2011  a special edition of the Invoice Monitor will be published: the e-invoicing trend map. Each visitor will receive this document, worth five hundred Euro.

About Factuurwijzer
Organizer Factuurwijzer is an independent organization and focuses on all aspects related to electronic invoicing and invoice automation. Our expertise and commitment to various initiatives provides maximum benefit for both business organizations and non-profit initiatives. Factuurwijzer is also the organisation behind the EEI Platform.

Factuurcongres
Betaalcongres

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: The fourth Dutch Invoice Conference opens its doors on May 17th, 2011.

Without that understanding, you could expose your company to expensive fines and penalties.

So, please join us for a free webinar with Christiaan van der Valk, CEO of TrustWeaver. He’s an expert on global e-invoicing, and he’ll be discussing how cloud-based technologies can extend your ERP or legacy financial system for e-invoicing on a global scale. By attending, you’ll learn how you can:

• Ensure that your invoice process follows digital signature rules, and accurately records VAT
  and other taxes
• Simplify e-invoice archival
• Lower your tax risk and make tax audits faster
• Reduce the time and expense associated with relying on tax specialists and legal counsel
  to ensure compliance

Efficient invoicing and payment is the lifeblood of global commerce. Don’t miss this webinar. Register today.

Webinar * NEW
January 20, 2011
11a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. GMT

Speaker:
Christiaan van der Valk, CEO of TrustWeaver, is an expert on global e-invoicing. He serves as a trusted advisor to leading companies and international organizations on e-business strategy, as well as legal, policy, best practice, and commercial issues.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Ready, Set, Go Global with e-Invoicing.

Based on an extensive survey of industry professionals, the eighth annual 100 Great Supply Chain Partners feature is the result of a six-month online poll in which supply chain professionals were asked to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company’s efficiency, customer service, and overall supply chain performance.

“In 2010, we received more than 2,800 nominations from small and large companies covering scores of different industries,” states Brad Berger, publisher of SupplyChainBrain. “More than 400 vendors of every conceivable type of supply chain activity were nominated — from very specialized technologies, to a wide range of third-party logistics, transportation and consulting services. The 100 companies that received the most qualified nominations are represented on this year’s list.”

Ariba was recognized for providing solutions that enable companies of all sizes, across industries to control costs, minimize risk, improve profits and optimize performance.

“The first wave of supply chain efficiency focused on automating and streamlining processes,” Tim Minahan, Chief Marketing Officer, Ariba. “The next wave will come from more efficient and effective collaboration between trading partners. At Ariba, we are focused on helping companies drive this collaboration by providing them with technology, community, and capabilities that enable them to connect and efficiently do business. We are pleased to be recognized by industry leaders and SupplyChainBrain for our efforts.”

About SupplyChainBrain
SupplyChainBrain is the world’s most comprehensive information resource for supply chain news, intelligence, strategy and innovation. In addition to the fundamental principles of supply chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions — and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature. SupplyChainBrain targets the high-level executive, who is concerned with such strategic issues as managing risk, aligning the supply chain with corporate planning, achieving competitive advantage, balancing customer demands with the need to control cost, and improving the bottom line. Collectively, the highly experienced SupplyChainBrain editorial staff has spent more than a century researching, analyzing, writing and reporting about issues and applications related to logistics and the supply chain. It is this level of expertise combined with that of our many respected content partners that influences the information we present through our web site, blogs, newsletters, video casts, webinars and magazine. For more information, visit www.supplychainbrain.com.

About Ariba, Inc.
Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Ariba enables more efficient and effective buying, selling, and cash management by combining industry-leading software as a service (SaaS) commerce technology with the world’s largest web-based global trading community and expert capabilities and services to augment internal resources and skills – all as a flexible, cloud-based service. The Ariba® Commerce Cloud™ delivers everything needed to control costs, increase sales, minimize risk, and enhance cash flow and operations. More than 300,000 companies, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100, use Ariba’s solutions to drive more efficient and effective inter-enterprise commerce. Why not join them? For more information on Ariba commerce solutions and the results they deliver, visit www.ariba.com.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Ariba named a 2010 Great Supply Chain Partner.

This is no small task and it requires not only the proper use of technology but also change. Change in our Ways of Working (WoW) and change in our corporate culture. It requires change in the way we think. This is perhaps the hardest challenge of all. Going paperless and the change required to get there.

The technology is here but is your corporate culture ready for it? That is the true question and the reason we have put this simple guide together for you. We have identified a few simple things you can do today that will help you move toward a paperless business operation and help the world go paperless. Help us to improve this list of tips.

Add your tips, comment on these, modify them. Let’s make this practice into a ‘best’ practice together!

1. Use document scanners to convert paper documents to electronic format through document scanning then shred them – if allowed by law and industry – and send the shredded paper for recycling
2. Do not print or copy any documents unless absolutely required. Send all documents via e-mail or electronic fax as the preferred method to your customers.
3. If you do have to print, be sure to spell/grammar check before you print to eliminate reprinting. Also, try saving or printing to PDF instead.
4. Use Web 2.0 technologies like wikis and blogs for internal communication and collaboration
5. Use single source repositories and shared digital workspaces to develop, manage and refine documents like contracts, marketing materials and any other type requiring review and refinement
6. Use web interfaces and forms for online applications and order placement, replace paper forms with eForms
7. Sign up for e-bill delivery or online billing from your suppliers rather than paper statements, and pay your bills electronically
8. Develop and deliver all promotional materials in electronic form rather than paper using links and downloads for online and thumb drives or CD media at tradeshows and seminars
9. Map, design and manage all business processes electronically. You can begin by mapping the processes and assessing how they can be improved as they are, then address process automation using what you currently own and/or may purchase
10. When a signature is required, match the signature solution to the signature requirements. While “click-wrap” is the easiest and most common, there are numerous options. Electronic signature tablets similar to those used in retail are one option; you can even get them sophisticated enough to capture the unique biometric characteristics of each individual for future comparison if the signature is questioned
11. Sign up for the digital versions of all trade magazines and newsletters, and make sure others in your organization do the same
12. Use direct Printed Barcode on the corrugated boxes or on the Product manual or use other Emboss technique for object tagging & Retrieving on the product itself instead of separate Paper based barcode stickers.
13. Paper is widely used between Business to Customer, Business to Business, Government to Business Vise Versa, and Customer to Business for day to day transaction purposes. Government & Corporate have to frame policy & implement paper less processes. Elevate, educate and provide Hands-on support to the non IT savvy customers to use self service applications. This Reduce paper transaction cost, Increase customer base through customer satisfaction.
14. Outsource paper document digitization to a document imaging company. You may get more cost benefit outsourcing to a company that focuses entirely on scanning than trying to keep the scanning in house.
15. Where possible convert your paper based data capture to e-Forms.
16. Encourage end users to upload scanned copies instead of mailing the documents

Use the above tips and join us for World Paperfree Day, October 28, 2010

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Tieto to exhibit at Sibos event in Amsterdam, 25-29 October

Tieto will participate at Sibos 2010, Amsterdam, 25–29 October. Sibos has grown into a yearly forum for the financial industry to meet, discuss, learn, do business and keep in touch with what is going on in the sector.

Official Sibos Exhibitor LogoTieto will be exhibiting at A hall stand 744. During the event we will launch a new white paper; Transaction Banking Report SIBOS 2010 – How to Achieve Success in Transaction Banking by Automating and Optimizing the Whole Financial Processing Chain.

The Sibos event is facilitated and organized by SWIFT, a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 9 000 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 209 countries.

Market changes, new regulations and the call for efficiency and growth are driving the financial industry players to seek increased value through IT. During Sibos, Tieto’s spokespersons will present and lead discussion on the latest developments in a number of areas:

* Throughout the week from 4 – 5.30 pm: Mobile Lab. This collaborative ideas-generation Innotribe lab is co-hosted by Ville Sointu, mobile internet services offering development director at Tieto.
* Monday 25 October from 4 – 5 pm in Conference room 2: E-invoicing: The need for interoperability between banks and non-bank service providers. Co-hosted by Bo Harald, head of executive advisors at Tieto and chairman of the EU expert group on e-invoicing.
* Wednesday 27 October at 10 am, Open Theatre 2, Zone C: Mats Wikström, director of transaction banking at Tieto speaks about the Emerging opportunities in the corporate to bank space.
* Thursday 28 October at 9 – 9.45 am, SWIFT stand. Markus Hautala, digital transformation and consulting development director at Tieto, participates in the discussion: Increasing e-invoicing network reach through SWIFT – banks and non-banks joining forces.

Mats Wikström, director of transaction banking at Tieto, comments: “Transaction Banking is one of Tieto’s focus areas within financial services. Our experience with long and close customer relationships enable us to help our clients to transform their transaction banking business to meet the future challenges.  Individually customized solutions focusing on the automation and optimization of the whole financial processing chain will be the key to future success in this business.”

Tieto’s solutions for the financial industry include everything from banking services, internet banking and payment, card and capital market services to development, application management and outsourcing.

For further information, please contact:

Mats Wikström, director, Transaction Banking, Tel. +46 70 682 2738
Kia Haring, head of communications, Financial Services, Tel. +358 40 765 3700

Or visit tieto.com/sibos to book a meeting with us.

www.tieto.com

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Tieto to exhibit at Sibos event in Amsterdam.

GSK has been using the OB10 e-Invoicing network since 2004 and now have over 500,000 invoices arriving in their AP environment as data instead of paper. The GSK team realised  in 2008 that although great conversion rates were being realised, they could build on their 66% electronic penetration by focussing even harder on supplier onboarding, and by using other OB10 services, like the PO flip functionality and the invoice status updates – both available on OBportal.

In this fascinating webinar, join the UK Service Delivery Leader who will leave all attendees with the following benefits:

•    How to secure 87% e-Invoicing
•    What the critical success factors are to onboard supplier
•    How to build a case for enhanced services like PO flip and invoice status check
•    How suppliers benefit further from enhanced services
•    The impact that enhanced services has on accounts payable KPIs

The webinar is a must if you are looking to implement e-Invoicing and understand the enhanced benefits that additional services can bring!

Register now

www.OB10.com

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: How GlaxoSmithKline is deploying enhanced e-Invoicing services to increase productivity by 70%.

The 6th EXPP European Summit (on e-invoicing) took place in Munich this week. 320 delegates from all over the world had signed up. Norway was represented by 25 participants, mainly from b2bConnect Group and the banking network.

Bruno Koch – an e-invoicing expert and the conference chair- presented something interesting market numbers and made some adoption assessments. He pointed out that Europe was the leader in this area. Fueled by the European Commission’s E-invoicing Directive, Governmental projects, and the strong position of the large number of message brokers.

Bruno Koch
The picture is more mixed in the U.S., where payment by check is still the dominant factor. There are many standards and there is no strong or dominant message communicator. Interestingly, it was pointed out that Brazil is now in full swing. Koch also pointed to Russia as a major emerging market. Something that was a little hard to believe after Grigory Povarov presentation – with a high degree of irony. He explained how difficult it was to deal with the originally paper-based public demands, and how often the government interfered in the individual company’s billing practices. The word corruption was not used, but it was close ….

Surprisingly, Bruno Koch said that the financial crisis – what in Europe has become a crisis of public budget – would create a strongest motive. He said that Greece would soon become a leader in e-invoicing. Simply because they may have to cut public budgets two and get the better of the big, black economy country.

Milan School of Management
Professor Alessandro Perego of Milan School of Management Presented a comprehensive survey of the obstacles that existed in the prevalence of e-invoicing. He pointed out that the flora of standards was no longer a major obstacle because Europe now seems to agree on several standards. The law is no longer an obstacle too: the new EU E-invoicing Directive presents clear enough guidelines even though not everything is resolved. It is therefore not external circumstances are hindering the wide spread adoption of e-invoicing. Instead the barriers are a the seller and buyer.  One can see the benefits in communicating e-invoicing, as well as overcoming the barrier of having collaboration between buyer and seller. Perego also pointed out that the benefits only come when one can create values throughout the entire value chain with all types of business documents, not just e-invoicing. E-invoicing in isolation will result in a gain of 05.03 per euro. Exchanging all documents throughout the value chain, leads to gains of about 65 euros with payback in one year!

Jonas Edlund
Yet the question remains how one gets small and medium enterprises  (SME’s) into this “wave”. This is the big market in Europe, and in something countries, small businesses dominate the private sector, for example in Austria, and also here in Norway. It was never answered correctly how one takes in this market segment, but Jonas Edlund from Pagero was onto something when he pointed out that the public sector’s initiatives to make a platform and infrastructure for e-procurement and – purchasing were not adequately Prepared for small businesses (see Also DIFIs mention of this project here).

Tim McGrath
The confusion surrounding the question of what standards apply was solved: Tim McGrath from OASIS mentioned one that it hardly ever comes to one single standard; the challenge is interoperability between multiple standards. This has already been recognized and that is why the European Commission has requested the creation of a standard data model that contains semantic description of all the known elements included in an invoice. This is now made by UN / CEFACT and is called the Cross Industry Invoice (CII). Based on this data model two different syntactic representations are created to suit various needs, the governmental UBL (in Norwegian ehandel.no Invoice format), and the banks ISO 200 222.

BSP Interoperability
One of the main focus areas of the conference was how message brokers, could cooperate. Both in Norway, Germany and Spain a set intermediaries worked together on a joint roaming agreement that guarantees seamless and free communication between message brokers. This was mentioned as a crucial prerequisite for lowering the threshold for the use of e-invoicing. But what remains is to establish a partnership with the banking network, so that the seller and buyer can freely choose between message brokers. Finland was highlighted as a country where many gateways had solved this problem, see in particular the presentation of Thomas and Bonwetsch.

Eva Hervidsson
Eva Hervidsson from Nordea emphasized that she cannot see how banks and non-financial intermediaries’ message won’t cooperate. Nordea has such a collaboration (with Tieto). She emphasized the “mind set”, i.e. the willingness to cooperate makes life easier for customers, especially small and medium- sized companies, and also such cooperation helps to increase the total market.

Main conclusions
What conclusions can one draw out of this conference? The three most important are perhaps:

The impetus for the development of standards and infrastructure for e-invoicing-disclosure is the public sector. But How to fulfill the needs of small suppliers the public market?

• The non-financial methods and the banking message network must enter Into practical Cooperation. Experiences from Finland, and Especially the Cooperation with Nordea Tieto (and now also Pagero) are examples of this.
• ERP vendors must be taken into account, by establishing an ERP Forum for e-invoicing.

Source: Digi.no (Norwegian)

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: EXPP Summit 2010 review.

Swift has named the 11 finalists that will battle it out in a Dragons’ Den-style Innotribe start-up competition at this year’s Sibos.

The competitors, unveiled by Swift’s Peter Vander Auwera on his blog, will each be given five minutes to make their pitches to a panel of venture capitalist judges in Amsterdam on 28 October.

After the pitches there will be a quick Q&A with the judges while the audience will have its say using a “high-tech” applause meter.

Swift has chosen the finalists based on four themes for its Innotribe 2010 programme: cloud, mobile, smart data and Long Now.

The finalists are:

• AcceptEmail: E-billing and payment via e-mail
• BehavioSec: Behavioural analysis of keyboard/ mouse usage
• Canatu: Printable devices based on nano-technology
• Collibra: Business semantics glossary for data management
• Cumulate: Mobile payments based on cloud and semantic Web
• Hypios: Semantic Web for finding experts
• Kinamik: Data Integrity and in-stream archiving
• MiiCard: Identity and dematerialization of bank account creation
• MyWOT: My Web of trust
• FX Capital Group: The currency and payments platform
• Smartlogic: Semantic analysis of contracts/legal documents

The winner will be revealed in the final closing plenary later in the day.

Finextra@Sibos will be bringing you all the breaking news, along with blogs, videos and photos from Amsterdam.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Swift to host start-up contest at Sibos: AcceptEmail is a finalist.

Among the many factors to consider when selecting an e-invoicing partner is your partner’s ability to connect with other service providers.

In this excellent 60-minute session, we will look at the benefits of using the four-corner approach, how it works in practice and its impact your e-invoicing project results. This session will challenge how far you can go with e-invoicing, and whether your project needs to be kick-started with supplementary approaches like outsourced scan and capture. To close the loop completely, and achieve true end-to-end automation, your e-invoice document may need matching and workflow handling.

How can you best manage approach and ensure that your overall solution suite offers a holistic remedy to your accounts payable problems? Attend this session (and forward it on to your team and boss – it will prove an excellent use of their time!) to find out:

• The truth about the four-corner model – how it works in practice and what the real benefits are
• How companies are cutting out invoices from day one through an intelligent combined approach
• How to successfully onboard suppliers and secure business-case delivery well within target
• What you need to do to attain touchless invoice processing from receipt-to-pay
• What all the above will do to your chief KPIs and allow your accounts-payable function to focus on adding value instead of costing the company money.

Register for this fascinating free webinar today to make sure you benefit from the tips, idea and insights shared only during these 60 minutes.

Among the many factors to consider when selecting an e-invoicing partneris your partner’s ability to connect with other service providers.

In this excellent 60-minute session, we will look at the benefits of using the four-corner approach, how it works in practice and its impact your e-invoicing project results.

Date: Tuesday, 23rd November 2010
Time: 15:00 – London, 16:00 – Paris, 10:00 – New York

Register now

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Webinar Basware: The four-corner e-invoicing model.

More than 350 E-Invoicing specialists and end-users from more than 30 countries are expected at the summit, which takes place in Munich from 11th to 12th October 2010. Amongst the exhibitors are six members of the EEI Platform: Accounting Plaza, Accountis, Basware, Certipost, StreamServe and Tieto.

Developing e-Invoicing in Europe
The High Level Group on Reducing Bureaucracy, led by former Bavarian Minister President Dr. Edmund Stoiber, has concluded that electronic invoicing is especially important for reducing bureaucracy. In its closing report at the end of 2009, the European Commission Expert Group on E-Invoicing put forward a number of recommendations for developing the use of E-Invoicing even further throughout Europe. These recommendations are currently being implemented at all levels, and many countries have already initiated specific projects.

EXPP Summit 2010
Europe’s leading Congress on E-Invoicing & E-Billing will celebrate its sixth anniversary this year.

Top-notch speakers will talk about their experiences with E-Invoicing projects over the course of two days. The European EXPP Summit 2010 will reward the participants with an exclusive series of success stories and best practice sessions from numerous industries across Europe.

• Hear the latest news on market trends, perspectives, standards and initiatives
• Success stories telling how the Procure-to-Pay process and the Financial Supply Chain have been improved and how they can help to reduce costs considerably
• Focus on the different possibilities for implementing E-Invoicing & E-Billing and for harmonising legislation in Europe

The mixture of lectures from experts in the field and professionals with practical experience, as well as podium discussions, roundtables, large exhibition area and especially the focus on Europe will make the European EXPP Summit 2010 a compulsory event for CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Heads of A/R and A/P, Procurement, Invoice Management and E-Invoicing decision makers from all over Europe.

Further information and the registration form can be found at:
www.expp-summit.com

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Six EEI Platform members contribute to EXPP Summit 2010.

Event
ISIS Papyrus offers an event with a wide range of sessions, case studies, showcases and fora during the ISIS Open House and User Conference from 2-4 May 2010.
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Experts sessions will focus on the unique challenges in your industry. This is your chance to hear how you can make a measurable impact in your organization with Papyrus. It’s a fantastic opportunity to meet like-minded document professionals to discuss best practices and pragmatic solutions to common real-life challenges.

Check the programme

Read the brochure:

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A Belgian Invoice Conference is planned for the end 0f 2010. A European Invoice Conference (EEI Conference) is planned for early 2011. You can express your interest for sponsoring opportunities through info@factuurwijzer.nl.

The Invoice Conference 2010 has a unique format, developed by Factuurwijzer to create value for users, providers and policy makers,  more than regular conferences.

Download the sponsoring opportunities document

Target Audience
The primary target of the Invoice Conference 2010 includes both interested people as users from organisations with more than 10 employees, but smaller companies and ZOHO are welcome to visit the conference free of cost.

These visitors have free* access to the Invoice Conference 2010:
- financial director, manager and financial specialist
- heads employees of billing, accounts payable, accounts receivable departments
- CTO, CIO, IT manager
- policy maker
- controller, accountant
- heads employees of billing, accounts payable, accounts receivable departments
- manager eBusiness, manager eBilling of eInvoicing
- head of information services, head ICT automation
- head of (internal) audit, audit manager

and also:
- suppliers of financial software
- accountants and adminstration offices
- webshops
- creditmanagement organisations
- sectoral organisations

* Free access: using the access code issued after completely filling out the Invoice Monitor 2010. Without the access code the entrance fee is € 79,-. www.factuurmonitor.nl
* Free access for target group visitors from other countries than The Netherlands and Belgium.

Market place
On the biggest information market in the Benelux, service providers and users can exchange specific information and knowledge on e-invoicing and invoice automation. Unlike other conferences,  the visitors remain on the information market floor during the major part of the conference.

Golden Invoices
At the Invoice Conference 2010, best practices on e-invoicing and invoice automation are awarded five Golden Invoices. Four Golden Invoices are awarded by a professional and objective jury. The fifth Golden Invoice is awarded by the audience.

Invoice Monitor
Statistical information on e-invoicing and invoice automation is clearly analyzed and displayed. In the 2010 edition, the use and adoption e-invoicing and invoice automations by users is measured and compared with the situation in 2008.

Interaction before, during and after the Invoice Conference
The marketing ROI of the Invoice Conference starts well before the actual event, starting with the registration for the Golden Invoices 2010. During the Invoice Conference there are several great opportunities to contact the audience. After the Invoice Conference all information is proactively distributed to the visitors and the target group of the exhibitors and sponsors, using the (social) networks of our content partners.

The Invoice Conference 2010 is distinctive because of:

1. the Invoice Monitor 2010, worth € 500, – which is provided free to the visitors.
2. free entrance for target group visitors (users).
3. the award of the five ‘Golden Invoices” for best practices around e-invoicing and invoice automation.
4. the marketplace, created by the merger of conference and information market: efficient, compact and innovative.
5. marketing and communication of the Invoice Conference, the Golden Invoices and the Invoice Monitor will go through regular communication channels, as well as social networks and other online tools.
6. record of all exhibitors and sponsors in the first version of the Invoice Compass 2010.
7. repeating discount for exhibitors and sponsors. Discount for members of Platform ELFA when investing as an exhibitor.

And furthermore…

1. to determine the nominees of the Public price Golden Invoices 2010 in their respective categories.
2. the opportunity for everyone, to candidate an organisation for nomination of the Golden Invoices, even your own organisation.
3. by many opportunities for transferring knowledge and networking with colleagues, suppliers and other experts
4. through a ‘traffic-jam free’ program in an easily accessible location, including entry, lunch and dinner buffet.
5. because of an inspiring location: the Evoluon in Eindhoven

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Invoice conference: free entry for target group audience.

An adoption programme for increased electronic invoicing in European business processes.

1. Compliance of electronic invoice implementations with Council Directive 2001/115/EC and the national legislation regarding electronic invoices;

2. Cost effective authenticity and integrity of electronic invoices and related business documents regardless of formats and technologies;

3. Implementation of compliant electronic invoice systems in using emerging technologies and business processes;

4. A framework for the emerging network infrastructure of ‘invoice operators’ throughout Europe.

These are the presentations that were held during this day.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Presentations CEN/ISSS workshop Brussels June 18th.

After the completion of the CEN/ISSS eInvoicing Phase I Workshop in 2006, a Phase II workshop was launched in 2007. Now, during the Open Meeting on June 18th 2009, the final deliverables of this Phase II will be presented to reach out for public comments and reviews.

CEN/ISSS e-Invoicing Phase II: five Working Groups

Five projects have gone under way, with Working Groups:

1.      An adoption programme for increased electronic invoicing in European business processes

2.      Compliance of electronic invoice implementations with Council Directive 2001/115/EC and the national legislation as regards electronic invoices;

3.      Cost effective authenticity and integrity of electronic invoices and related business documents regardless of formats and technologies;

4.      Implementation of compliant electronic invoice systems in using emerging technologies and business processes;

5.      A framework for the emerging network infrastructure of ‘invoice operators’ throughout Europe.
Resulting in several deliverables, the Working Groups and the entire CEN e-Invoicing Workshop aim to stimulate further standardisation in the domain of electronic invoicing in Europe. It should be noted that the activities are explicitly not directed towards standardisation of a document format such as UN/CEFACT or UBL.
What kind of deliverables can we expect?
So what kind of results can we expect at the Open Meeting on June 18th 2009? To get answer on that question we could take a look at the presentations performed during the Open Meeting in 2008.

In short – to be honest: as far as the EEI Platform can see- it is expected that at least the following deliverables will be presented:

-          The Draft Good Practice Guidelines (Working group 2 and 3)

-          E-invoice Gateway (Working group 1)

-          Review of CWA 15576 (Working group 4)

-          Review CWA 15582 (Working group 4)
NOTE: The EEI Platform has been chair of Working group 4 for some time. It resigned from this position due to a conflict of co-operation with one of the Workshop chairs and a difference of vision with regard to the expected deliverables and their content. The EEI Platform proposed to deliver:

-          A Common Body of Definitions

-          An Interaction Framework

-          An E-invoicing Innovation Guideline
Progress put into perspective
So what progress has been achieved during the last twelve months? The only way to find out is to go the CEN/ISSS e-Invoice Open Conference. But not before you had a chance to look the presentations from 2008. That way you could put the new information en statements into perspective:

2008 – Working Group 1
Raising awareness of electronic invoices

2008 – Working Group 2
Overview on compliance of electronic invoices

2008 – Working Group 2:
Compliance of electronic invoices

2008 – Working Group 2:
Legal and regulatory inhibitors

2008 – Working Group 3:
Cost effective means to guarantee authenticity & integrity

2008 – Working Group 4:
Emerging technologies and business processes

2008 – Working Group 5:
Interconnection of service providers

With the final deliverables, the CEN e-Invoicing Workshop has stimulated further standardization work in the domain of electronic invoices in Europe, with a view to supporting:
- the compliance of electronic invoice implementations to Council Directive 2001/115/EC and the national legislation as regards electronic invoices;
- the effective implementation of compliant electronic invoice systems in using emerging technologies and business processes, in business-to-business as well as in business-to-government scenarios; and
- the emerging network infrastructure of invoice operators throughout Europe.

The eInvoicing Workshop Phase II is mandated by the European Commission to provide advice on the European electronic invoice implementation process. With more than 60 companies actively participating, the Workshop has become the sounding board of the electronic invoice industry – comprising software companies, service providers, end-users as well as tax authorities (e.g. Spain, NL, UK, Italy, Romania).

CEN/ISSS conference “Electronic Invoices & Compliance”
JUNE 18th, 2009 10:00 – 17:00 CET
DIAMANT BUILDING
Boulevard Reyers 80, 1030 BRUSSELS, Belgium

The Open Conference is free of charge !
For participation, please register before 10 June at: http://www.cen.eu/isss/meetings

If you have any question about the registration, please contact:
Emmanuelle Ramaz, Workshop Assistant CEN,
Innovation & Business Development Department
e-mail: emmanuelle.ramaz@cen.eu
Tel + 32 2 550 08 13

Agenda

09:30 Arrival and registration
10:00 Welcome and introduction CEN Secretary General Stefan Engel-Flechsig & Anders Grangard (CEN/ISSS Workshop Co-Chairs),
10:15 Perspectives on e-Business (Welcome note by the European Commission, DG Enterprise)
10.30 Summary of the Phase II results: Stefan Engel-Flechsig
11.00 WG2: Overview on compliance of electronic invoices – Joost Kuipers
11.15 WG2: CEN Compliance Guidelines – Christiaan van der Valk
11.45 WG2: Legal and regulatory inhibitors – Tony Nisbett

12:15 Lunch break

13:15 WG : Cost effective means to guarantee authenticity & integrity – Johan Borendal & Nick Pope
14:00 WG 4: Emerging technologies and business processes – Anders Grangard & Adrian Mueller
14:45 WG 5: Interconnection of service providers – Ahti Allikas & Jari Salo

15.30 Coffee & tea

16.00 WG 1: Raising awareness of electronic invoices – Georg Lindsberger & Helmut Aschbacher
16:30 Final discussions and recommendations from the audience
17:00 Wrap-up, close of meeting & networking

For participation please register before 10 June at: http://www.cen.eu/isss/meetings

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: CEN/ISSS E-invoice final deliverables June 18th – What to expect?.

• Public Administrations that are setting up new eProcurement solutions and are interested in capitalising on other experiences and in receiving information on available guidelines and tools
• IT companies in charge of the development of eProcurement solutions
• Organisations responsible for existing eProcurement solutions that need to be aligned with the European legislation

A “Call for presentations” is open until the 5th December 2008. Please contact the eProcurement Forum by e-mail  (eprocurement@epractice.eu) if you need further information on the event, or if you are interested in sharing your experience and in presenting a case.

Registration is possible via the ePractice website at http://www.epractice.eu/workshop/37.  Please note that attendance is free and open to everyone who has been registered on the ePractice portal. Since the available places are limited, interested experts are invited to register soon. 

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: EC workshop eProcurement solutions in Vienna.

Registration
Online registration for this workshop is now open. Attendance at the workshop is free of charge and open to everyone.

This event is in the past

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Day 1 – 8 December 2008
Programme starts 10.00

Opening by Peter Potgieser, ABN AMRO, Chairman CEN/ISSS e-Business Interoperability Forum and Equens speaker

Keynote: ICT standardization and eBusiness policy developments
Costas Andropoulos, Head of Unit, European Commission, Enterprise and Industry Directorate General

Practical examples papiNet implementation and deployment practice
Tom Meniga, Managing Director, Freecom

eBIZ-TIC project – eBusiness standards pilots in the textile and footwear industry
Piero De Sabbata or Milena Stefanova, ENEA eTrade UN/CEFACT speaker Interoperability between eInvoicing systems Anachron speaker Questions and answers

RFID and the Internet of things
Speaker from the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate General (tbc)

Beyond SOA: interoperability challenges in the Digital Ecosystem era
Pierfranco Ferronato, Chief Architect, Soluta.Net

ICT implications for energy consumption and growth
Reinhard Madlener, E.ON Energy Research Centre (tbc)

Day 2 – Tuesday 9 December 2008 
Programme starts 09.30

Critical issues – Title to be confirmed
Paul van Exel, USPI (tbc)

Education in e-business standards and standardization policy
Speaker to be confirmed

Methodologies for Global eBusiness test beds
Speaker tbc 
 
 
For more information, visit the website of CEN

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This is the agenda of the event.

If you are interested in visiting this event, you can view the registration form here.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: 02-12-2008: CBI/ABI event – Forum on e-Invoicing in Rome.

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OBJECTIVES of the workshop

- Discuss and look at how eGovernment can be an effective tool in the reduction of administrative burden for public administration, business and citizens.
- Inform about the present activities of the European Commission by speakers from DG Enterprise and DG Infosoc including the latest call within the ICT PSP Work Programme 2008;
- Provide an up to date overview of the latest activities of the SCM Network;
- Present good practice cases from Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, among others, showing how administrative burden is being reduced for business, citizens and government;
- Provide participants an opportunity to raise questions and discuss these good practice examples with the case presenters in three parallel working groups.

More information to be found on the website of ePractice.eu.

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Encuentro de Expertos en Factura Electrónica, XBRL y Contratación Pública

The Encounter of Experts in Electronic Invoice, XBRL and Public Hiring, organized by the Association of Industrialists of Technologies of the Information and Communications of Andalusia, ETICOM and SANDETEL, public company of the Council of Innovation, Science and Company of the Andalusian Government, is the main event on Electronic Invoice, XBRL and and-administration organized to date in Andalusia.
 
With the participation of some of the best international and national experts in these fields, pertaining to organizations like the European Union, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce of Spain’s Govenment, the Tributary Agency, the Chamber of Commerce of Andalusia and RED.ES and FUNDETEC, the event has the objective of being a key event when it comes to electronic interchange of invoices, documents and financial statements, for both companies and public entities.
 
This new panorama appears to be a great opportunity of business for the companies of the sector TIC, besides to become for the administrations and public companies an instrument that remarkably improves the productivity and the quality of the service of attention to citizens and companies.

The entering in to force of the obligatory terms for companies to send electronic invoice to the Administration that will begin first at the beginning of 2009 for large companies. In November of 2010 it will extended to the entire private sector. It will also including hiring processes, administrative conflicts, tenders, VAT, et cetera. 
 
This first encounter of Experts in Electronic Invoice, XBRL and Public Hiring, will be held on 6 November 2008 in the Centro de Convenciones del Hotel Barceló of Seville. The event is invaluable for companies and public administrations.

Registration and ore information on www.efacturameeting.com

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The next European EXPP Summit will take place on September 21 & 22, 2009, in Amsterdam / The Netherlands.

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These meetings concern a diversity of aspects surrounding e-invoicing and automated invoice processing. Subjects that might be dealt with are for instance SEPA, standardization, credit management, archiving and international developments.

The next expert meeting will take place on October 30th, at the Congres ” Administrative Software”.

For more information, please check the Platform ELFA website.

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The main topics to be addressed by its 4th meeting are:

- Niche areas for eProcurement;
- Streamlining VAT reclaim;
- eInvoicing overview and potential benefits;
- Update from VISA, Mastercard and AMEX on the likely impact of eInvoicing on the P-card market.

The official agenda of the meeting will soon be published at the Purchasing Card Forum website.

Meeting attendance is traditionally reserved to members of the Purchasing Card Forum, which pay an annual membership fee. However, for this edition of the meeting, two free places will be available for eProcurement experts from ePractice.

The eProcurement Forum team will assign the free places to experts fulfilling the following conditions:

- Have a complete profile on ePractice;
- Be a member of the eProcurement community;
- Have expertise related to the following topics: ePayment, purchasing card and eInvoicing.

A first-come first-served policy will be applied if several people are selectable. ePractice members interested in the free spaces should send a request by email to eprocurement@epractice.eu by 24 October 2008, providing explanation on how they fulfil the above conditions.

Event email: richard@smartex.com

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After the seminar you will then have an opportunity to take a tour of the Amsterdam Arena, home to AFC Ajax!

Seminar: 9.30am to 2.15pm (including lunch)
Stadium Tour: 2.15pm to 5.00pm

The seminar will feature presentations by three leading authorities on e-invoicing, who will share their experiences with you and explore how you can ensure you maximise the business and financial benefits from an e-invoicing strategy.

The featured speakers are:

• Christiaan van der Valk, Chief Executive Officer, Trustweaver
• Hein Gorter de Vries, Director of Strategy, GS1 Nederland
• Chris Hayes, Senior Product Marketing Manager EMEA, Sterling Commerce

The presentations will focus on four main key points:

• How can cross border e-invoicing make the audit process faster and more accurate?
• How easy/difficult is it to clearly evidence compliance with multi-border VAT transactions?
• What ways can you reduce the overall costs and time involved in tax audits?
• How can e-invoicing successfully mitigate risk around tax compliance consistently across multiple countries?

After the presentations you will have an opportunity to pose questions to the speakers during the panel session – as well as meet them individually during the afternoon session.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: 09-10-2008: Sterling Commerce – e-Invoicing on a global scale.