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PDF invoices are underestimated, while they offer a great platform for massive e-invoicing adoption
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IMNederland, one of the leading Credit Management organizations within the Netherlands is setting the scene with interactive online Debtor Service Center. IMNederland is now the first Credit Management organization in the Netherlands that allow their debtors to view, manage, and pay their overdue debts at any given moment from any location. e-Billing market leader Anachron has developed the online Debtor Service Center (DSC) in collaboration with IMNederland.
Robert der Kinderen, Director Marketing and Product Innovations explains: “The online DSC is the perfect addition to our current services. IMNederland was all ready making use of e-mail and telephone messages to notify our debtors on the outstanding debts. This was an effective method to reach debtors, but it was also resulting in allot of administrative work for our agents, as they had to enter the data manually. The online DSC was the best solution for IMNederland to optimize our collection process and reduce the manual work. We can now provide debtors with a complete solution to manage and pay their overdue debts. Our Credit Management software IMpact creates a user name and password that is send per letter to the debtor. We capture the e-mail addresses of our debtors by making this mandatory with their first log on. Within their personal account the debtor has all functionalities and hand so therefore they are no longer dependent on our opening times or assistance of our agents”.
Marco Eeman, CTO Anachron continues on the innovative solution: “The data of the overdue debts changes on a continuous basis. We therefore decided to present the solution within secured web services. When a debtor logs on or makes an adjustment a soap request or update takes place via an interface that is connected to the server of IMNederland. This allows real time processing of the adjustments within Impact and therefore presenting the latest information available to the debtor. Within their personal account, debtors have the option to view, dispute and pay the overdue debts. We present the online DSC is completely in the look and feel of IMNederland”.
“The Internet is also being recognized by Credit Management organizations as a very important and effective channel to reach debtors”, says Frank Hoekstra, CEO Anachron. “By providing their debtors with an online DSC IMNederland has not only enhanced the service to their debtors but also accelerated the collection process significantly. The online DSC has also resulted in a considerably cost reduction as debtors can manage their without any debts without involvement of an agent”.
The IDABC programme (http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/) is supporting the design and development of eProcurement solutions compliant with the public procurement Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC, by providing tools (mainly, the eProcurement demonstrators, the helpdesk service and the Functional Requirements) that can be used as examples and guidelines. The eProcurement Forum, a community within the ePractice portal, is organizing in cooperation with Auftrag.AT a workshop to exchange experiences about the development of Public eProcurement solutions aligned with the European legislation. The workshop will take place on the 14th January 2009 at the Schönbrunn Palace Conference Centre in Wien (Austria).
The participants will have the opportunity to have an insight into the IDABC eProcurement demonstrators and to be presented with some eProcurement cases developed using the IDABC tools as sources of inspirations. This workshop targets all the European eProcurement experts and in particular those belonging to:
- 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.
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Oracle On Demand customers can now rapidly extend their Oracle financials solutions to include the 170 MarkView Financial Suite, a set of products from 170 Systems that integrates unstructured content such as paper, faxes, spreadsheets, and e-mail into key finance processes, from accounts payable to asset management.
“Because our products are already deeply integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise financial applications, On Demand customers can simply ‘turn on’ our solutions as needed,” explains Karl Büttner, chairman and chief technology officer of 170 Systems, Inc.
“Since Oracle provides the hardware and manages the database platform on which 170 MarkView Financial Suite runs, this solution is powered by Oracle On Demand,” says Büttner.
The 170 MarkView Financial Suite integrates all unstructured content associated with a given transaction–paper, fax, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic invoices, spreadsheets and e-mail–directly into Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise financials applications.
The result: On Demand customers strengthen internal controls, lower transaction costs, promote adoption of self-service solutions, and enable e-invoicing.
Lowering the Cost of Compliance
By automating the integration of unstructured content, the 170 MarkView Financial Suite lowers costs even as it reduces the risks inherent in dispersed, paper-based systems.
And internal controls guarantee segregation of duties for each transaction.
“We turn core financial functions into self-documenting, Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant processes with comprehensive audit trails and real-time monitoring,” says Büttner.
The 170 MarkView products also shrink transaction costs and timelines, thanks to automatic routing of each transaction and its associated information to the appropriate individual for review, coding, and approval.
And by automating processes and bringing them online, the 170 MarkView Financial Suite enables self service as well as real-time audit capabilities.
“The beauty of this partnership is that our products are in tight coordination with Oracle financial application products and live on Oracle On Demand,” Büttner adds. “That means customers get all these benefits of the software with simplified, proven integration and with a single point of accountability for the management of their solutions.”
Source: Oracle
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