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Agenda of the 4th E-Invoicing Operators' Forum
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
OPENING REMARKS
Bruno Koch, Billentis
COOPERATION BETWEEN E-INVOICING NETWORKS AND VANs / BANKS / EDI CLEARING CENTRES
- The Concept
- Multiple delivery channels
- Our favourite solution regarding interoperability fees
- Advantages and disadvantages of bilateral models
Patrick Van Hoorde, Head of Partnerships and Alliances, Certipost
CONTROLS CERTIFICATION OF OPERATOR PLATFORMS
- The need for trust and certification
- Different types of certification
- Controls to build trust in business partners
- Assurance to build trust in controls
- SAS 70, the facto standard for third party controls assurance
- An approach to control frameworks and assurance
- The future of SAS 70, ISA 3402 and controls assurance
Ingvar Van Droogenbroeck, Partner, Systems & Process Assurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers
WHAT ONE INTERNATIONAL ENDUSER EXPECTS FROM PROVIDERS
Riikka Blomberg, eProcurement Manager, Global Sourcing, UPM-Kymmene
ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION AND E-INVOICING DIRECTORIES
- Status, overview
- Private directories
- Country specific directories
- International initiatives
- Main principles and differences
- Recommended scheme for operators
Marcus Laube, HubAlliance & eGreen Pages
REQUIREMENTS OF GLOBAL USERS
- A 'European Electronic Invoicing Framework' is a good start, but the requirements of international users do not stop at the European border
- Digitally signed invoices as a help for getting bank credits/guarantees; arguments against unsigned invoices
- Thoughts about dispute management in an interoperable network environment
Christopher Haydon, Global Marketing & Solutions Direct, Quadrem International
ONLINE COMMUNICATION OF STAKEHOLDERS
- Market monitor 2009
- Analysis of press releases
- Analysis of provider websites
- Best of class in these two categories
- Further methods used for market communication
- Characteristics of good and motivating examples
- Potential for improvement
Bruno Koch, Billentis
FRAMEWORK FOR EMERGING NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC INVOICE SERVICE PROVIDERS THROUGHOUT EUROPE
- Interconnection and conversion scenarios for different use cases
- Basic interoperability criteria for service providers
- Checklist for interoperability agreement
- Standards, recommendations and good practices for adoption
- Proposed structure for some third party services e.g. E-Invoice address registry
Jari Salo, TG5, CEN
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION EXPERT GROUP ON E-INVOICING
- The vision of the European Commission
- Our objectives with the Expert Group on E-Invoicing
- Expert Group tasks
- Progress overview
Gerd Heinen, European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services
UPDATE EC EXPERT GROUP
- Proposed enhancements for VAT Directive, roadmap
- Compliance Roadmap
- Further Informations & deliverables (Code of Practice, ...)
Stefan Engel-Flechsig, Head of Legal Sub-group
- Key elements of a framework for interoperability
- Overview of EEI framework principles and the proposed layer model
- Parts for implementation under current legislation; others supported by future legislation
- Cross Industry Invoice and Core Invoice
Charles Bryant, Member of Network and Standards Sub-group
- Ensuring interoperability in multiple service provider scenarios
- Electronic signature interoperability
Marcus Laube, Member of Network and Standards Sub-group
Bruno Koch, Member of Business Requirement Sub-group
- Next steps and outlook
- Planned activites for governance
Gerd Heinen, European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services
PANEL DISCUSSION
- Q&A session with speakers of the EC and Expert Group
- Should there be a standards body for the industry and/ or should the operators form a trade association? If yes, what should be the main objectives of such an association?
- Market pain and hottest topics for 2010/2011
- Interoperability fees
Forum Speakers
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