By admin on December 7, 2009
ETSI has published a multi-part standard that will facilitate secure paperless business transactions throughout Europe
Posted in Definitions and Models, Recent News | Tagged e-invoicing, e-invoicing europe, Europe, European Commission, standard, standardisation
By admin on November 18, 2009
The newly elected German Government plans to support open standards and open source software.
Posted in Awareness, Definitions and Models, Recent News | Tagged administration, Europe, interoperability, standard, standardisation
By FDE on June 12, 2009
Duncan Jones, senior analyst at Forrester, gives a detailed account of why companies should embrace electronic invoicing.
A recent survey by the US Institute of Management and Administration found that the average administration cost per invoice is €30. Even more worrying, 70% of the AP managers surveyed did not know the figure for their own company. [...]
Posted in Awareness, Members and Partners, Publications | Tagged accounts payable, CEN, e-invoicing, initiative, savings, standard
By admin on March 10, 2009
The European Commission organised an informal meeting in Brussels last October in order to get a clear picture about the current status, progress and implications of the convergence of the Universal Business Language (UBL) standard into standards developed by UN/CEFACT. A point of discussion was whether or not any actions – in addition to the ongoing [...]
Posted in Awareness, Featured Articles, Publications | Tagged e-invoicing, EDI, EDIFACT, European, European Commission, Expert Group, Framework, meeting, standard, standardisation, UBL, UN/Cefact
By admin on January 19, 2009
The Dutch banks have composed a standard message for the customer initiation of a European bank transfer. This allows business and IT customers and / or ERP providers to a set up a generic and correct SCT UNIFI / XML message supported by the Dutch banks.
Read the ‘SEPA Credit Transfer XML customer-to-bank Implementation Guidelines for the [...]
Posted in Recent News | Tagged bank, ERP, Europe, guidelines, SEPA, standard
By admin on December 2, 2008
French banks have suspended the launch of new pan-European payment services due to confusion over tariffs in the latest setback for a key EU project to improve consumer choice and boost growth.
The European Union has plans for a single euro payments system or SEPA to give its 495 million consumers cheap payments of bills and [...]
Posted in Awareness, Recent News | Tagged bank, CEN, EDI, European, European Commission, Payment, SEPA, standard
By admin on December 2, 2008
Financial messaging network Swift is consulting with its membership about the potential provision of an interbank e-invoicing exchange network and the creation of a banking industry wide standard.
In a survey of the top 50 MT 103 banks, Swift found that 28 of the 29 banks that responded already offer or plan to offer B2B e-invoicing [...]
Posted in Awareness, Electronic Invoicing, Recent News | Tagged B2B, bank, e-invoicing, Expert Group, new members, standard
By admin on November 27, 2008
In the sixth progress report on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), published this week, the Governing Council of the ECB welcomed the evident progress made on this project, but emphasised that work urgently remains to be done to ensure the success of SEPA. The sixth progress report also contains a list of “Ten milestones [...]
Posted in Awareness, Publications, Recent News | Tagged administration, adoption, bank, CEN, e-invoicing, EDI, European, initiative, interoperability, Payment, SEPA, standard, standardisation, UBL, VAT
By admin on November 25, 2008
At the start of 2008, the European Commission has set up an Expert Group on the subject of electronic invoicing. The thirty members of the Expert Group should represent all key stakeholders concerning e-Invoicing. The members shall be appointed by the Commission from specialists with competence in the area of e-Invoicing on the basis of applications [...]
Posted in Awareness, Electronic Invoicing, Recent News | Tagged e-invoicing, EDI, European Commission, Expert Group, SEPA, standard, standardisation, UBL
By admin on November 25, 2008
The first set of UBL 2.0 data dictionary translations is now out for public review. The first set of UBL 2.0 data dictionary can be downloaded from http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/idd/UBL-2.0-idd.zip.
Created by OASIS UBL localization subcommittees (LSCs) to aid in global UBL deployment, this package provides translations of the 1900+ standard UBL business term definitions into Japanese, Italian, [...]
Posted in Awareness, Definitions and Models, Recent News | Tagged CEN, EDI, Europe, standard, UBL, XML
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