eBillingHub is a pioneer and leader in law firm e-billing and has just launched eBillingHub Intelligence: a free of charge tool for all eBillingHub customers that shows how a firm’s billing processes measure up to other firms. This makes it easy to identify where efficiencies and accuracies can be gained.
Read MoreGXS today announced a new survey report created together from Supply Chain Insights titled, “EDI: Workhorse of the Value Chain.” The survey examines the relationship between supply chain efficiencies and the automation of purchasing, fulfillment and warehouse activities with EDI and XML.
One of the focus areas of the study was the benefits to order fulfillment achieved through the use of EDI/XML. The study found that EDI/XML improves cycle times, enabling faster order delivery for increased customer satisfaction.
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 MoreMore and more companies around the world continue to plug in to the Ariba Network. Goal: to enable new forms of collaboration and transform their business. Currently more than 1.2 million companies in 190 countries are now connected to the Ariba Network. Using it to transact and collaborate more than half a trillion US Dollars. With these figures Ariba claims to be the largest and most global web-based trading community in the world.
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, invoice automation, order to cash, purchase to pay, payments, compliance or e-procurement. And because we do want to give you the opportunity to get informed about what is going on, we provide you with this news flash.
Read MoreSome two years ago, the European Multi Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing was set up by the European Commission. The goals of the forum were to exchange experiences and best practices, to monitor the uptake of e-invoicing in all Member States, and to identify measures to facilitate the mass adoption of e-invoicing at both national, cross border and EU level. During the forum’s last meeting the findings and reports from its working groups were made final and published. To make things easy on you, we’ve collected the 32 recommendations and listed them underneath.
Read MoreAfter buying Cordys last August, OpenText now unveiled the acquisition of GXS for a mere USD 1.165 billion. OpenText wanted to buy GXS as it envisions that we are going to enter an era of Enterprise Information Management. The GXS acquisition strengthens the Information Exchange Pillar of OpenText with the addition of market leading cloud-based B2B integration services.
After closing the deal, OpenText and GXS together expect to serve more than 55.000 trading partners and 80.000 customers and support approximately 16 billion annual transactions in the cloud. For those interested we have some neat details on this deal.
The IATA Financial SIS (Simplified Interline Services) platform is an electronic invoicing solution facilitating the air transport industry’s billing and settlement activities by optimizing and reducing the cost of back-office processes, unifying invoicing standards and eliminating the need for paper documentation.
IATA reports that approximately 160 tonnes of invoices and supporting documents circulate among airlines each year to support the aviation industry’s interline billing and settlement processes. SIS aims to eliminate unnecessary paperwork, mail charges and courier fees as well as mitigate the risks related to lost documents and internal paper handling thus offering annual cost savings of up to $700 million for the industry.
OpenPEPPOL has published their opinion on the proposal for a Directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement. In essence OpenPEPPOL welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement1, and the focus on shifting towards a paperless public administration, particularly its crossborder dimension.
However, OpenPEPPOL also have suggestions and recommendations regarding this directive. We’ve made a summary from their 12 page opinion paper.
Initiated in 2008 and ended in August 2012, the PEPPOL project (Pan-European Public Procurement Online) developed and implemented the technology standards to align business processes for electronic procurement across all governments within Europe.
Today, PEPPOL is most widely used in Norway. Adaption rates are high and it is already the most dominant format and infrastructure. The number of companies, who are ready to receive PEPPOL invoices in Norway, increased to 6.382 by September 2013 compared to 1.302 in October 2012. And in September 2013 there were already 269.395 transactions in total (incl. invoices and credit notes) exchanged through PEPPOL system, as in October 2012 the number of transactions was only 15 296.
