Archive for Interoperability
EDICOM joins the platform as a key partner in the Cargo XML area. They developed EDICOM Air, their e-Air Waybill platform, which automatically generates the cargo information based on the XML standards set by IATA.
Read MoreThanks to the EESPA Model Interoperability Agreement (MIA) between the two, the more than 13,000 Edicom clients can exchange over 400 million business transactions annually through its network.
Read MoreIn this Tradeshift blog, Tim McGrath discusses how openness of trade data is inevitable and that with UBL we can realize the equivalent benefits for information exchange that containerization brought to freight exchange. What is your opinion?
Read MoreEuropean Business to government e-invoicing received 9 million Euro in funding from the Connecting Europe Facility. Even more grants are expected in 2015 or 2016 if the uptake of the envisaged technical platform for B2G e-invoicing is considered too low to ensure continuous usage and financial sustainability.
Read MoreIn the Netherlands an additional PEPPOL ‘layer’ was developed, called SimplerInvoicing. The SimplerInvoicing layer contains rules against blacklisting, exclusion, use of the Simplerinvoicing brand, recommendations on mass-onboarding clients in the SMP, recommendations on activating sending and receiving trading entities.
Read MoreToday, KPMG officially launches the universal KPMG InvoiceSharing connector to the world. The last few months they have been working hard to create a standardised connector that allows all ERP system (but especially the bigger SAP’s en Oracle’s) to seamlessly connect with InvoiceSharing.
The universal KPMG Connector for InvoiceSharing allows for all invoices to be automatically processed in your ERP system.
At the initiative of the Minister Olivier Chastel and the Secretary of State Hendrik Bogaert, the Belgian federal authorities this week received their first non-PDF UBL electronic invoice.
The non-PDF UBL e-invoice was sent by Electrabel via “Mercurius”, which is a centralized platform for receiving electronic invoices. Electronic invoices received via this platform are automatically integrated into Fedcom, the accounting system of the Belgian Federal Public Services.
In Belgium there is such a thing as the ESP (E-invoicing Service Providers) Protocol. It is the result of three recently signed protocols to promote the current adoption of 20% to new levels. Similar to France.
In the ESP protocol, the ESPs and the Belgian Business Software Providers (BBSPs) agree to produce a standard for data exchange that will allow them to exchange electronic invoices more smoothly.
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!
There is a very interesting LinkedIN discussion going on regarding interoperability in Europe. What to choose from with platforms in place like OpenPEPPOL, GS1, OpenPEPPOL, SimplerInvoicing, HubAlliance and so on? Or maybe you want to stick with the proprietary platform of the largest e-invoicing service provider(s)? And even though they are all promoting the same cause (interoperability), it sometimes seems as if their different -business- perspectives on interoperability are having an effect on the current interoperability uptake.
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