The document summarizes a conference on electronic invoicing in Europe. It discusses the UN/CEFACT Cross Industry Invoice standard and whether it is meeting user requirements. It provides an overview of the CBI Consortium, which works on e-invoicing activities and standards. It then analyzes how the CII standard addresses issues for public authorities and enables flexibility for different business needs. Finally, it discusses how the CII can help accelerate order/invoice/payment integration across supply and financial chains.

1. Conference “Electronic Invoicing in Europe”
Is the UN/CEFACT Cross Industry Invoice standard meeting user
requirements?
Stakeholders’ perspective on the CII
Liliana Fratini Passi
Secretary General - CBI Consortium
Member of the EC Expert Group on Electronic Invoicing
Madrid, 28th April 2010

2. CBI Consortium background and activities on
e-invoicing Main area of CBI
activities on e-invoicing
•Electronic connection via a unique front-end solution
•End-to-end communication among actors
•More than 35 advanced features, related to:
CBI
- Payments and collections: more then 900 mln of transactions
Infrastructure
- Reporting: more than 3.500 mln of informative flows
- Document management (e.g. e-Invoicing, …)
•New CBI Entry Point Services towards Central Public Administration
•Participants: -Banks: ~ 680 •Client targets: -Companies: > 800.000
-Poste Italiane - Public Administration
CBI Community
-IMEL CartaLis
-New Payment Institutions
•Definition of CBI Service rules, technical standards and regulatory
framework
CBI
contribution to •Participation in the most relevant international WG supporting the
Standardisation standardisation and interoperability of payments and e-invoicing transactions
•Development of innovative e-invoicing services aiming at supporting banks
in order to offer advanced solutions to their clients (i.e. E2E e-invoice, Invoice
Financing Request, …)
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3. The CII v2 at work
The fundamental drivers in the UN/CEFACT analysis
Fundamental drivers in the
UN/CEFACT analysis Main objectives
• To promote interoperability and
Cross-sector analysis supply & financial chains synchronicity
The modularity of
the standard
enables the
possibility to use it
• To capture user requirements, in different context:
Business process and independent of any specific not just in corporate
information modeling technology, through the creation of industries (i.e.
business collaboration models automotive/
electronic/ steel/
…) but also in retail
• To ensure the compliance with the and public sectors
Mapping to new innovative and emerging
technologies as they technologies (e.g., eXtensible Markup
emerge Language (XML), Web Services, shared
and/or distributed objects, etc.).
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4. The CII v2 at work
Does it fulfill the requirements of Public Authorities?
Public Authorities’ issues
• Customized Impossibility to Need to lever on
procedures, specific completely common
for each Public standardize the processes and
Public Authorities data exchange
Authority
services requirements to
• Complexity of the (heterogeneous introduce a
operative processes needs) standardized base
• International data model
CII v.2 • Link between financial and
supply chains (cross-domain
interoperability)
• Cross-industry global standard
CII satisfies the main requirements shared by different Public
Authorities, enabling them to interact with their national & international
business partners on the base of core standardized services
Its modularity enables Public Authorities to adopt implementation
rules of the standard supporting their specific needs
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5. The CII v2 at work
The flexibility of the standard ensures compliance
with the business needs of different actors
Business
Requirements
Specification
UN/CEFACT
Core
Component
Libraries
Requirements
Specifications Business
Mapping Document
• The CII is based on core data, • TheBIEs are aggregate in • Each business document
taken from the UN/CEFACT Business documents, (electronic message) is
Libraries of reusable according to appropriate implemented through
business information Business Requirements XML schemas
entities (BIEs) Specifications and
Specifications Mapping
• However it is possible to
integrate new specific BIEs,
responding to specific needs
(i.e. Public Sector)
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6. Supply and Financial Chain integration
Does the CII v2 accelerate the
order/invoice/payment integration?
The CII v.2 data model UN/CEFACT and ISO
facilitates the UN/CEFACT CII 20022 should continue
integration with the to collaborate to enable
payments systems Buyer Goods & Services Seller maximum integration of
supporting: messages, to support
• connection between • thesyntax alignment
supply chain of the CII and the ISO
messages and 20022 message
integration with standards
financial services
• the registration of
requirements
further standardized
messages related to
• end-to-end
STP
ISO 20022 the e-invoicing process:
transactions
i.e. e-invoicing status,
• SEPA schemes Buyer’s Information exchange Seller’s …
adoption Bank and payments Bank
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7. “If you want to go fast, walk alone.
If you want to go far, walk together“
(African Saying)
Thank you
l.fratinipassi@abi.it
www.cbi-org.eu
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