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# | Modules | Your choice |
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1 | Introduction to eInvoicing | |
2 | The legal background | |
3 | The European norm and its content | X |
4 | Infrastructure based on the eDelivery DSI architecture | |
5 | eInvoicing from a user perspective (including ordering and payments) | (X) |
6 | Examples of early adopters of large scale eInvoicing – lessons learned | X |
7 | Basic XML using examples from the EN-syntaxes + mapping/conversion considerations | |
8 | XML Validation mechanisms | X |
9 | Understanding OASIS UBL 2.1 | |
10 | Understanding UN/CEFACT CII D16B | |
11 | Funding and grants for e-Invoicing | X |
12 | Introduction to the eInvoice DSI resources and tools | X |
13 | Introduction to CEF Digital and e-Invoice readiness checker | X |
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Question | Answers | Actions to be taken |
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Who are you? | Almost 100% service providers | |
Do you have a profile at CEF Digital? | 2 out of 45 has a profile | |
Which eInvoicing formats do you currently use? | In Sweden, mostly Svefaktura and PEPPOL. Also EDIFACT. | |
Have you started implementing the standard? | Yes, a few. Majority no. | |
Have you bought your own copy of the standard yet? | No - 100% no. | |
Have you applied for CEF funding before? | No - 100% no. | |
Question from audience: Is it common to apply for CEF funding? | Answer: It depends on the countries and especially the Nordic have had few applications. But it would be good to have more Nordic applications from Swedish, Danish and Norwegian service providers. | |
Question from the audience: Who maintains the standard in Sweden? | Answer: For the European standard → Swedish Standard Standards Institute together with CEN and the other Member States. For the CIUS which will be used in Sweden → PEPPOL For Swedish supporting material such as mapping instructions, stylesheets, user guidelines, test files → SFTI (Single Face To Industry) and PEPPOL | |
How many have experience in Svefaktura? (for comparison with the Semantic model) | Almost 100% of the audience | |
How many have looked into detail in the semantic model (EN)? | Almost non | |
How many have looked at the PEPPOL BIS BILLING 3.0 and PEPPOL CIUS? | 1/3 of the audience | |
Deadline for implementing the new standard? | The deadline in the directive is 18th April 2019, but in some countries there is different deadlines such Norway with 1st January 2019 and Sweden with 1st April 2019 | |
COMMENT: As service providers we hope that Extensions to the standard is not going to be used, as this would stop interoperability between users and service providers. | ||
If other countries impose earlier deadlines for the standard - would this mean that Swedish service providers should have the same standard if sending to Norway? | No, Norway should still have PEPPOL BIS 2 and EHF until the overall deadline of 18th April 2019. So the period in between is still ok to send with old invoices. | |
COMMENT: Overall, we believe that the new standard will be much better as documentation and implementation guidelines is improved than previous standards. | ||
Input from the Mini-workshops
- The law and the new standard will give more uptake, bigger volumes and a bigger "e-invoice industry".
- There will be a lot of integrations projects, particularly for those suppliers who can't use standard off-the-shelf solutions
- Much focus on "technical" aspects (standards, formats) from the buyers. Better to let the service provider offer solutions and focus on benefits
- Invoice issuing system often have bad data quality or rudimentary structured data - this can be a challange when creating the e-invoice which requires high level of structure data
- Extension will create problems and cause unnessary cost, if they become common
- Important that service providers takes responsibility about interoperability and to explain to their customers that "customized implementations" and specific requirements (extensions, CIUS) comes with a cost related to interoperability and onboarding
- XSLT for transformation from CII to UBL would be great to have and it would be implemented if it has good enough quality
- Negative invoice is seen as a problem. In Sweden, CreditNotes have always been used for crediting.
- The PEPPOL CIUS is a step forward, the documentation looks very good. An improvement to existing documentation for PEPPOL BIS and Svefaktura
- It is often not the technical aspects that halts/limits e-Invoice adoption, it is lack of knowledge (on the buyer/seller side)
- Implementation can be a problem for some ERP systems
- Some thinks that very few extensions and CIUS will be used in Sweden (as PEPPOL is/will be mandates for public sector)
- To much focus on eInvoice is taking away the focus on the whole procurment process (catalogue, order, delivery). This has traditionally been important in Sweden but lately, only invoice.
- More trainings will be necessary
- Invoice Response message is important and should be prioritized
- Those who have invested in PDF-only solutions will have big issues next year with the new law
- Validation rules should be multi-lingual
Pictures from the workshop
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Presentations from the workshop
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Survey for the workshop
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/CEFeInvoicingWorkshop
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