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Time schedule
Monday, September 21
09:00 - 17:00 (to be followed by evening event from 17:30)
Tuesday, September 22
09:00 - 16:00
Chairman's opening address
- Market trends
- Perspectives
Bruno Koch, Billentis, Switzerland
European Governments as innovators and market drivers
- The vision of the Pan-European initiative for the entire procurement process from eTendering to ePayment
- Work Packages of the PEPPOL project
- Experience and Status of the Pilot
- Strategy to encompass all EU Member States
- Expected impact on private sector
Mikkel Hippe Brun, National IT and Telecom Agency, The Ministry for Science Technology and Innovation, Denmark
The choice for digital pay slips
- Why decide to innovate HR back office processes?
- What obstacles surface for large and international corporations?
- Legal and technical challenges
- Future possibilities to expand the services for your employees
Peter Lindenbergh, Labour Affairs, Albert Heijn, The Netherlands
Global Shared Services strategy and the role of internal and external E-Invoicing
- Establishing clear governance models and accountability for procurement operations
- Embracing the easy wins by reducing Purchase to Pay cycle time
- The procurement process in a shared service perspective
- Future development and governance
Terje Kløvås, Head of Business Development and SSC Procurement Director, Telenor Key Partner, Norway
E-Invoicing as part of a total document exchange solution
- Electronic supply chain connectivity and document exchange needs
- E-Invoicing: from webshop to integration with customer systems
- Multichannel communication from a single platform
- Key elements to a beneficial partnership
Jan Hemmink, Commercial Manager, Overtoom International Nederland B.V., The Netherlands
Increasing E-Invoice share - From supplier activation to enforcement
- UPM approach to increasing purchase E-Invoice share
- E-Invoice implementation business case
- Key success factors and challenges in today's global environment
- Future expectations
Riikka Blomberg, eProcurement Manager, Global Sourcing, UPM-Kymmene, Finland
From E-Invoicing to E-Procurement
- Reason for introducing electronic and automated processes
- Own objectives: optimization of processes and savings
- Suppliers focusing on them and why it is so important
- Experiences, tips & hints
Nanna Skovgaard, Head of Division, Agency for Government Management, Kingdom of Denmark
International rollout in the automotive aftermarket
- Market structure and the role of TecCom
- Various customer requirements and their different legal constraints
- How we fulfil the demand (marketing, organisational, technical)
- A realistic ROI case-study for a supplier
Hubert Hohenstein, Solution Manager TecInvoice, TecCom GmbH, Germany
The importance of business networks in building national capabilities to increase the penetration of E-Invoicing
- What did we do in Finland and what have we achieved?
- How could we build similar co-operation within European countries?
Merja Fischer, Director, Global Financial Accounting and Business Control Development, Wärtsilä Corporation, Finland
PDF- or E-Invoicing?
- Travel industry: Supplier structure, their environment, IT know-how and capabilities
- Mid- and long-term objectives with invoice process automation
- Our step by step approach
- Experience during roll-out
Mirette Huber, Head Financial Accounting, Kuoni Travel Ltd., Switzerland
A business case on supplier side
- Why and how E-Invoicing helps drive business forward
- Legal drivers for E-Invoicing: Legislation in Europe and the US
- Financial drivers
- Business Case: Considered components, results in detail
David Crowther, Senior IS Manager, TRW Automotive Aftermarket, UK
Panel Discussion: Role of Financial Supply Chain in today's turbulent times
- Problems faced and how electronic and automated processes can help to solve/overgain
- Experience of providers: Do companies hesitate or accelerate for automation?
- Experience of companies:
- Maximizing liquidity
- What are the criteria and current investment priorities?
- Achieving real-time cash management and visibility
- Increasing automation, efficiency and transparency
- The downturn in the economy is of great concern to business owners. How to make sure business gets off to a good start for 2010. What options are recommended?
David Crowther, Senior IS Manager, TRW Automotive Aftermarket, UK
Gregory Cronie, Head of Sales, Payments & Cash Management, ING Wholesale Banking, The Netherlands
Tony Fitzhugh, E-Invoicing Global Project Manager, Nestlé Business Services, Switzerland
Arturo González Mac Dowell, General Director, Eurobits Technologies, Spain
The electronic invoicing market in Latin America
- Market drivers & initiatives in the public and private sector
- Market challenges:
- Multinational companies doing business in Latin America
- Portability of European solutions
- PDF or EDI, electronic signature
- Legal requirements
- Status & outlook: Mexico, Brazil, Chile
Luis Sánchez, CEO, Indicium Solutions, Mexico
SPONSORED SPEECH eBilling - don't be scared...!
- The billing workflow in practice
- Auto-generate digitally signed and VAT compliant PDF and XML files
- Long-term archiving
- Benefits for suppliers and buyers
Wolfgang Stier, Director Sales, gotomaxx GmbH, Germany
Supplier on-boarding in an international environment
- Realistic expectations with supplier on-boarding
- Align processes on buyer side
- Legal and technical requirements of suppliers
- Structured on-boarding process
- Lessons learned & outlook
Paul Rutten, Manager Financial Solutions, Quadrem International, The Netherlands
European Commission: E-Invoicing and E-Ordering pilot project
- Use of E-Invoicing in the public sector in line with the objectives of the i2010 E-Government and the E-Procurement action plan
- The e-PRIOR prototype
- Lessons learned from the pilot with suppliers
- Collaboration with other E-Invoicing and standardization initiatives
Pieter Breyne, EC Project Coordinator, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Belgium
Suppliers' experience with the EC project
- High-level architecture of the solution, processes in scope, technicalities
- Implementation view; setup to promote quick and wide deployment
- Day-to-day usage: What are the efficiency gains and what is the further potential?
- General conclusion
Catherine Dubu, Head of Billing, BT Global Services, The Netherlands
E-Invoicing in Spain - SMEs point of view
- Regulatory environment and standards
- ASIMELEC working group
- Communication and training
- Success cases
Julián Inza, CEO, Albalia Interactiva, Spain
Towards a banking model for E-Invoicing
- A value proposition for SMEs mobilising E-Banking
- Network model and standards
- Collaboration with service providers
- Compatibility with EU legislation and frameworks
Charles Bryant, Senior Adviser, Euro Banking Association
Roundtable 'PDF, EDI or both'
- Strong trend towards PDF invoicing in some countries
- Reasons for the popularity of PDF-Invoicing
- Is it just cost shifting to customers or real saving?
- Why many PDF-Invoices are not tax compliant
- EDI and/or DIE?
- Best of both worlds - possible migration path
Chair: Friso de Jong, EEI Platform
Vice-Chair: Markus Hautala, Member of EC Expert Group, ISO 20022 T&S SEG and EBA E-Invoicing Working Group
Vice-Chair: Gerhard Laga, Head of e-Center of The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
Pan European E-Invoicing deployment of a centralized company
- International company structure and billing landscape
- Challenge to comply with various local E-Invoicing legislation
- The A/R E-Invoicing global deployment project
- Combining customers' technical specifics and requirements with different national legal obligations
- Automation and saving potential
Shaun Campbell, Director of Category Management, Electronic Arts Europe, Switzerland
Synergies through membership:
Networking customers, experts, and partners
- International Document & Data Exchange for SME and Global Players
- Interconnection of technical & financial processes across companies and providers
- Roaming in the network integrated and with 3rd party-platforms designated
Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel, Advisor b4value.net GmbH, Member of the Management Board, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Standardisation, ... from an eBusiness perspective
- What is interoperability? Basic Interoperability, Interoperability - a peek under the hood
- Business Opportunities
- Why standardisation?
- Developments of standards for eBusiness
- The audience - the Business
- The challenges
- Conclusion and next steps
Peter Potgieser, Chair of eBusiness Interoperability Forum, The Netherlands
E-Invoicing - Added Value Services:
- Content Checking, Validation & Credit Ratings
- Improve payment flows
- Reduce fraud
- Reduce bad debts
- Improve discounting terms
- White labeling of E-Invoice platforms & logistical services
Ian Dunning, President, RefData srl, Italy
Roundtable 'Equal treatment of electronic and paper invoices'
- Status:
- In most countries legal treatment differs, but in some countries equal treatment accepted
- EC Proposal for equal treatment in Future
- Interpretation: What exactly is equal treatment
- What this means in practice:
- for automation of processes
- for the audit process
- Pros/Cons
Chair: Joost Kuipers, Belastingdienst Rivierenland
Vice-Chair: Christiaan van der Valk, TrustWeaver
Vice-Chair: Karl-Heinz Haydl, GE Corporate
E-Invoicing as key item for eEurope
- Why E-Invoicing is so important for Europe
- Focus of the European Commission
- Related projects pushed by the Commission (E-Invoicing, eID, eSignatures, E-Procurement, ...)
- Outlook
Gerd Heinen, DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission
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