Review EXPP Summit 2011

As in the years before, the EXPP Summit offered an exciting programme of top-flight speeches, practical reports and panel discussions. The practical forum of the EXPP Summit provided all of the relevant answers regarding E-Invoicing and E-Billing. With more than 350 E-Invoicing experts and practitioners from all continents and 27 exhibitors this year's summit was a huge success.

EXPP Summit 2011 in Barcelona: observations
Oriol Bausà, AMETIC, posted at EEI Platform
eeiplatform.com

Conclusions

• We are in the midst of globalization and invoices and related commercial documents are increasingly being exchanged internationally.
• The EXPP summit has been following this trend of internationalization. With 350 participants from 35 countries, this has been successful. For the first time in history, an exchange of information for an E-Invoice in which participants from all continents were represented has taken place.
• Admittedly, the public sector only represents around 10% of the total volume of invoices. However, in many countries, over half of all companies are suppliers to the public sector (national government, states, municipalities, cities), and probably all companies and households receive invoices from the public sector. Public sector invoicing is thus acquiring great significance.
• In Europe, the public sector is pushing ahead with E-Invoicing and E-Procurement primarily with the aim of optimizing the processes and establishing standards nationwide.
• In Latin America, the electronic invoice primarily constitutes an instrument for reducing tax evasion.
• Now that most large European companies are already using E-Invoicing and many medium-sized and small commercial partners are also supporting this, growing numbers of companies are moving on to the next step of the project: they are optimizing not only the processing of invoices, but are also automating the whole process chain 'order-to-cash' and 'procure-to-pay' (such as Nokia, for example).
• The success story of Brazil and the Aalto University report have demonstrated that the trend is increasingly moving in the direction of 'real-time' auditing or processing.
• It has been shown that E-Invoicing is growing very sustainably independently of economic cycles at an annual rate of 30-35%. This suggests that next year's EXPP Summit may also be a great success.

What delegates think of the EXPP Summit

• 'The complete landscape of E-Invoicing.'
  
  
• 'Where E-Invoicing happens.'
  
  
• 'If you are involved with E-Invoicing, you must attend EXPP.'
  
  
• 'That is the world cup of electronic invoicing.'
  
  
• 'Reveals the future tendencies of E-Invoicing.'
  
  
• 'Excellent opportunity to learn about what's new in the world of E-Invoicing from a global perspective.'
  
  
• 'Don't miss this yearly meeting of the electronic invoicing industry: users, regulators, suppliers!'
  
  
• 'E-Invoice is a global revolution, come to EXPP to learn, share, network and have fun. This is the event!'