Boy what a surprise. You do a e-invoicing survey under SME's. And what is the outcome? Well, that most of them use e-mail and PDF for e-invoicing. Now, for all of you that are eager to say that that is not e-invoicing, talk to those SME all over France, Europe and the world for that matter. Because this what they believe. And keep in mind that these SME's are strangely enough your future customers.
48% of firms taking part cited simplicity, traceability and productivity as at the heart of the benefits of e-invoicing. Of those respondents in the B2B segment, 50% expressed an interest in de-materialising the invoicing process, while 28% claimed to have already done so.
We need your help. Well actually, the EU Multistakeholder Forum on E-invoicing needs your help. Help in the form of feedback on the "draft recommendation on interoperability and a semantic data model for electronic Invoicing".
There is also a "background document" as well as a "comment template" for your comment. Please help the EU Forum and send your feedback before 23 of May to peter[dot]potgieser[at]rbs[dot]com.
Finland is relatively far in e-invoicing B2B segment but B2C is in a low penetration stage at the moment. So how come these two segments have followed different paths?
So it seems the main difference is coming from the fact that user groups are different: consumers have not seen a clear benefit, while the B2B business benefits were obvious. But there is more...
The UK public sector has now placed £1 billion of transactions through its e-procurement platform over the last five years, with 46 percent of deals completed in the last 12 months.
The UK public sector is said to have made millions of pounds in savings as a result. The e-procurement platform hosted the transactions from more than 5,030 organisations across the entire public sector. More than 3.4 million transactions have been processed on the network over the past five years.
Ariba, an SAP Company, and Dell Boomi, the world’s largest integration cloud, today announced that they are teaming to deliver pre-packaged integration as a service offerings to help selling organizations drive new levels of efficiency and effectiveness across their operations.
Designed to simplify and speed integration to the Ariba Network, the Ariba Integration Connector, powered by Dell Boomi, enables companies to collaborate more efficiently and drive game-changing improvements in productivity and performance.
More and more organisations are adopting e-invoicing and moving away from paper-driven, manual processes. There are many benefits: greater visibility, faster processing, improved accuracy and reduced costs, to name a few. Really?
In this video organisations including SITA, The Co-operative Group and UniCredit Bank explain why changing to e-invoicing was an essential step for them. They also explain what were the benefits for there organisation.
Having decided to introduce e-Invoicing as a way of gaining additional control over both its supplier relationships and its internal buying community, Alliance Data Systems managed to convert more than 76% of its target invoice volume to e-Invoicing in the first year of implementation.
Talking at the OB10 2012 Buyer User Group in London, Todd Holcomb at Director Corporate Supplier Services, Alliance Data Systems, explains how this success is down to a blend of executive buy in, an aggressive onboarding program, and ensuring all are suppliers in scope for e-Invoicing.
DHL has selected Tradeshift as its preferred solution for working with suppliers. The first phase of the project will see DHL Global Business Services (GBS), the internal DHL services division, rolling out e-invoicing across its European suppliers, connecting with them electronically to save time and money.
DHL joins global enterprises such as MITIE, DSM and Vestas Wind Systems, who work with tens of thousands of suppliers and are looking for a better way to manage core business interactions. Tradeshift is different because it provides free accounts to all those suppliers, resulting in much higher adoption levels than other providers -- and therefore providing the ROI these enterprises need.
The numbers of channels and formats of non-standardised data flows like PDF and e-mail have already become incredibly expensive to manage. As the e-invoicing platforms for working with suppliers electronically have emerged to solve this problem, the same previous challenge of getting the companies you work with to use it has reared its head again.
The idea of replacing the whirlwind of these non-standardised data like paper, PDFs and email with a platform for business interactions is one of the biggest opportunities for the next years. Using a platform that promotes open standards, that offers value beyond just getting paid and that doesn't let you pay for an account, is the way forward.
Gabon Telecom has launched a secure e-billing system for its business customers, Ecofin reports. Managing director Lhoussaine Oussalah said the e-billing system is free to use and meets customers' real needs by allowing them to receive their telecom bills more quickly. The system also enables customers to save the bills of the previous six months.
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