OpenPEPPOL is celebrating an important milestone as Ricoh Nederland B.V., a Dutch service provider currently setting up a PEPPOL Access Point, became the 100th new OpenPEPPOL member.
Growing faster than any other e-interoperability initiative in Europe (perhaps even globally), we thought it would be nice to write down some facts and figures on OpenPEPPOL.
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.
Read MoreBasware has signed an agreement for the delivery of accounts payable automation and e-invoicing services with a major UK hospitality retail providers. The services are powered by Alusta. Alusta is Basware’s vision on a unified cloud-based platform for purchase-to-pay. The agreement includes invoice automation and – an ambition towards- 100% inbound e-invoicing services.
Read MoreThe aim of GS1, in the short-term, is to run a proof-of-concept scenario for GS1 eCom messages (EANCOM and GS1 XML) to be transported through the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure. In the future GS1 intends to introduce PEPPOL to the entire GS1 community, both public sector suppliers and major retailers.
This could implicate another step towards convergence between private and public sector eBusiness practices.
EESPA was featured in the latest edition of the prominent ‘Parliament Magazine’ on the model interoperability agreement. Alongside an interesting two-pager on how the the EU directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement come in to existence. The article unveils that the most difficult part of the negotiations with the council was agreeing on the time period available to contracting authorities and entities before the standard is made mandatory. Definitely worth reading.
Read MoreWe were a bit in doubt whether we should write about a press release we just received in our e-mail inbox. Or whether we were to covertly tweet about it. It concerns the frequently asked questions about e-invoicing in public e-procurement. Similar to the explanatory notes on the 2010 EU e-invoicing directive here and here.
Though it does provide some clearance. However some things are still left unanswered. Like “what is an e-invoice?” or “What is de role of PEPPOL in this topic?”. So in the near future we hope to unlock these also. But for now….here goes:
On 4 June 2012, the European Commission proposed a draft Regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market. The Regulation is expected to be come into force on 1st July 2014 and will be directly applicable cross the EU from that date and is an important step for the development of e-commerce, e-invoicing and e-procurement.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreThe company selected Top Image Systems largely because of the flexibility of the eFLOW platform to process various kinds of semi and unstructured documents and for its integration to multiple business systems. Previously, any invoice that was received by the company via email had to be printed out before processing.
If an invoice document referred to more than one purchase order, it would have to be run through the system multiple times. With eFLOW, invoice processing is streamlined with immediate data recognition and validation; the company’s P2P processes are optimized, enabling a quick, safe and cost-effective document flow to and from their customers.
Looking for customer success, research reports, white papers, ebooks, factsheets or (and these are our favourites) videos on invoice automation and e-invoicing the Basware-style. Than go to their knowledge center. And take a look at the The World’s Fastest E-Invoice Training Video. Or the succes story how Staples Advantage enjoys improved cash-flow position and shorter DSO cycle thanks to e-invoicing.
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