Posted in Members and Partners, Publications, Recent News
By FDE on September 18, 2009
E-invoicing has received a lot of attention in the last few years as one of the most promising means to soften the negative effects of the current economic crisis.
Posted in Awareness, Members and Partners | Tagged advantages, authenticity, digital signature, e-invoicing, European, European Commission, integrity
By FDE on June 15, 2009
Swisscom IT Services’ Andreas Brandl tells FDE about developments in e-invoicing, including economies of scale, market penetration and the 2012 Swiss government e-invoicing initiative.
FDE: How do you define e-invoicing?
Andreas Brandl: Common sense would suggest that an invoice issued, sent, received and processed in a purely electronic format is an e-invoice, as long as it is [...]
Posted in Awareness, Members and Partners, Publications | Tagged accounts payable, CEN, e-invoicing, initiative, savings, standard
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, Electronic Invoicing, Members and Partners, Presentations | Tagged B2B, digital signature, e-invoicing, Europe, savings
By FDE on June 10, 2009
Christian Kersten and Stefan Waelde of Lufthansa AirPlus GmbH tell FDE how their invoice management unit, billinx, is helping to streamline financial supply chains.
According to analyst firm Billentis, there are almost one million companies in Europe that send or receive e-invoices, with 985 million e-invoices sent in 2008, and a 45% increase in [...]
Posted in Electronic Invoicing, Members and Partners, Presentations | Tagged accounts payable, advantages, bank, e-invoicing, European, savings, VAT
By FDE on June 8, 2009
Research by Forrester has shown that each manually processed invoice can cost a company as much as €100. Yet the European Union’s drive to promote electronic invoice presentation and payment (EIPP) has not borne fruit. So what can be done to help EIPP take off? MasterCard’s Laurent Vreven has the answers.
FDE: How do you [...]
Posted in Awareness, Members and Partners, Publications | Tagged EEI Platform, new members, partners, website
By FDE on May 20, 2009
Online magazine The Finance Director (FDE) has teamed up with the EEI Platform to co-operate
Posted in Electronic Invoicing, Members and Partners, Publications | Tagged authenticity, best practice, CEN, e-invoicing, EEI Platform, Expert Group, integrity, interoperability, savings, SEPA, VAT
By FDE on May 20, 2009
Gianfranco Tabasso, a member of the EC’s experts group on e-invoicing and co-ordinator of CAST, stresses the importance of working capital management improvement programmes and its relationship with e-invoicing, and the automation of the financial supply chain (FSC).
When times are hard liquidity becomes the top priority for companies. Unfortunately, the current crisis in the capital [...]
