Following the adoption of the revised legislation on public procurement and the directive on e-invoicing in public procurement, the European Commission is organising – together with the Greek Presidency of the EU – a conference on smart public procurement and B2G e-invoicing.
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Thurrick Council aims to save GBP 900,000 in 2014 thanks to einvoicingThurrock Council near London hopes that the move to e-invoicing and invoice processing will substantial savings of around £900,000 in 2014 alone.
It is unclear however whether the £900,000 savings are based on 100 per cent adoption of e-invoicing by all suppliers.
We continuously collect news items that for some reason don’t make it to a full post here at the E-invoicing Platform. News from the world of on e-invoicing, payments, invoice automation, order to cash, purchase to pay, compliance or e-procurement. And because we do want to give you the opportunity to get informed about what is going on all over the world, we provide you with this news flash.
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Read MoreBasware has been recognised as a leader in a report by Forrester, called the “The Forrester Wave: eProcurement Q2 2014” . The Forrester report described Basware as the largest independent eProcurement vendor and a leading P2P solution provider with a solid Alusta eProcurement platform.
Furthermore, Basware was included as one of four vendors that are described as established ePurchasing specialists with broad suites and extensive supplier networks.
Mphasis and Basware inked a partnership to provide F&A; Business Process Services spanning purchase-to-pay and e-invoicing. Mphasis will embed Basware’s platform and its Commerce Network within its own portfolio and provide transaction based e-procurement and invoice automation services to its clients around the world.
The service features an easy-to-use plug-and-play model with transaction-based pricing, to maximize efficiencies in the F&A; function in organizations.
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In my opinion, the Directive fails to address key issues, without which it will be impossible to achieve real financial and environmental gains for Europe and the business community that serves it.
Whilst I would always welcome all efforts to encourage the use of e-invoicing, in my view this Directive just scratches the surface and leaves many unanswered questions. My fear is that it will actually serve to delay the full economic benefits of e-invoicing, which would make €2.3 billion look like small change.
We have gathered over fourty international news items, views and acquisition jubilee here at the E-invoicing Platform over the past couple of weeks – but if you missed it, the Monthly Recap of March 2014 is your humble servant.
Here’s every one of those stories from the entire month, waiting for you in an convenient format. So read what interests you, and then go out there and grab the benefits!
Commissioner for internal market and services Michel Barnier said the move to e-invoicing would “contribute to eliminating barriers to cross-border public procurement” and could generate savings of €2.3 billion per year across the EU. However as “it would take 3 years to deliver the standard and that would be followed by another 3 years to deploy it”, this move to e-invoicing is way to late to help make the 2020 EU e-invoicing ambition a reality… It’s time for mandatory EU e-invoicing.
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