Go Digital with your invoices & Lessons Learned for a successful implementation

1. e-Invoicing:
An Obligation not a
Choice

2. e-Invoicing:
An Opportunity not a Choice
Lessons Learned for a
successful implementation

3. Overview
 “Electronic invoicing – e-invoicing – is electronic transfer of
invoicing information (billing and payment) between business
partners (supplier and buyer).
 European Union Council directive 2001/115/EC.
 European Union Council directive 2010/45/EU
 Mandatory in EU starting 2018 in the public sector.
 Turkey & Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Argentina)

4. Components of e-Invoice (*)
(*) Courtesy of GALIA and GS1 France.

5. Business Opportunities
Essential part of an efficient financial supply chain
Going Green & Paperless
Cost Savings (6.60 EUR; ~ -60%; Billentis)
Going Digital
Federate a business community
E-Invoicing is not only big business, it is big for business.

6. Strategy Definition
What: Scope?
Upstream Supply Chain
Downstream Supply Chain
Both
Where: Deployment?
Why? How?
Legal Requirement
Technology

7. XML or
CSV
P
DF
WEB
Portal
HUBWOO
Fiscal
archive
ERP
CONDUENT
Zoom on Europe

8. Collaboration
 Strong ownership from top management
 Business Process redefinition
 Trusted dual Project Management team
 Transversal team will all stakeholders (Finances, Fiscal, Sales, Procurement,
Communication)
 IS key stakeholder at all stages
 Change Management (Internal and External)

9. Invoicing at the end
* Courtesy of GALIA.

10. Key Success Factors
 Goal should be 100% of transactions (paperless)
 Increase automation of process and transactions
 Nbr. of deliveries vs Nbr. of invoices.
 Solution Segmentation by partners
 Long term vision: review contract
 Incentives (Visibility, PoT, claims)
 Costs
Implementation
Ongoing

11. Drawbacks
 Bad cooperation (internal & external)
 Fast moving environment:
Obligations
Fiscal Compliance
Personally Identifiable Information
Additional local constraints (archiving)
 Scared competencies / Perceived complexity
On Premise or SaaS?
 Costs (forecasts)
 Technology Intelligence

12. Questions & Answers

13. Jean-Luc Faye
IS Functional Domain Manager
B2B & EDI expert
jean-luc.faye@michelin.com
www.twitter.com/LatyrF
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+33 473 302437
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14. Thank You