With credit availability remaining tight following the financial crisis, banks and corporations alike are more attuned to the financing opportunities available linked to supply chain transactions. With the transparency of trade transactions and the link between funding and trade activities, Supply Chain Finance (SCF) lessens the risk associated with traditional lending. Electronic invoicing, presentment and payment (EIPP) systems can amplify the many benefits of Supply Chain Finance by automating a process that traditionally has been hampered by slow, paper-based manual methods.

16th September 2010, Old Trafford, Manchester. Whether you deal with 20 or 20,000 invoices per month, getting rid of paper and going electronic is probably high on your corporate agenda. And there is no better way to start planning your project than by attending this FREE one-day event. Covers all aspects of e-invoicing, ebilling, AP automation and mobile invoicing. Includes formal presentations, informal workshops, demos, lunch and stadium tour.

Digitising AP and taking it online enables you automate processes and get you one step closer to paperless invoicing. The technology is available, but what and where should you focus your efforts to make sure you achieve maximum benefit? This article looks at how you can implement change in AP to help your business run more profitably.

DHL uses the Accountis EIPP platform to deliver compliant e-invoices to all major European territories. Three years into the project we ask Brian Thumwood, e-Billing Programme Manager, to share some of his thoughts on their e-Billing service.

Key to the success of any Electronic Invoicing project is getting suppliers and buyers to join you in your new venture. This article explains how e-invoicing works for Suppliers and describes a straightforward Supplier Adoption process.

Electronic Invoicing is an automated service that helps finance departments in the NHS to lower costs, reduce errors and speed-up settlement. This article discusses three key issues; how it works, how it will impact suppliers/buyers and what cost savings can be expected following implementation.

All NHS Trusts experience problems in exchanging financial documents such as purchase orders and invoices with suppliers. EIPP can help eliminate many of these problems by automating the AP function. This article discusses four key issues that NHS project managers need to address when writing a business case for EIPP.

How would you like to make the immediate switch to an automated AP process? Why not get someone else to open, check, re-key and file all your inbound paper invoices? This article looks at scanning and data extraction services and the benefits they can offer you and your suppliers.

Four years ago Three Valleys Water, part of Veolia Water UK and the largest water-only supplier in the UK, replaced its legacy Bacs payments software with Bacsactive-IP Enterprise HSM from Accountis to automate their direct debit transfers, credit card transactions and supplier payments. Following implementation of the web-based software, Three Valleys has enjoyed improved administration, greater automation and increased transparency.

One of the UK’s leading social housing repairs and maintenance providers Mears Group replaced its existing Bacstel-IP software with Bacsactive-IP. It enables Mears to automatically collect payment data from multiple finance packages and create Bacs submission files – a process that was previously done manually.

Fourth Hospitality, or Fourth, is the leading provider of software as a service (SaaS) to the hospitality industry. Fourth wanted to automate its payments process and needed a hosted service that could be tailored to its specific requirements. They chose the Bacs approved Bacsctive-IP Enterprise with Workflow module.

Caerphilly County Borough Council employs around 9,000 people and delivers a wide range of services to the 170,000 people living in the county borough. They use Bacsactive-IP Enterprise to process many critical payments from payroll and council tax through to leisure and services. Payroll, council tax and rent alone account for 66,000 transactions each month.

Used effectively, electronic documents can help you to increase sales through cross-selling, help strengthen your brand awareness and improve your overall customer relationship.

As one of the most established and respected analysts on e-invoicing, we were keen to catch up with Bruno Koch of Billentis to find out his current thoughts on the European E-invoicing marketplace.

Article: A number of banks are already providing electronic invoicing services to their corporate customers - are you missing out?

Accountis datasheet on our unique ebPrinter which allows any printable document to be automatically converted into the latest content-rich electronic document in any format.

Accountis datasheet on our EIPP services for banks and financial institutions.

Accountis datasheet for our Enterprise AR solution for automating the receivables process and taking it online.

Accountis datasheet covering our Enterprise AP solution for automating the payables process and taking it online.

The latest product brochure for Accountis EIPP range of e-invoicing solutions 2010.