Niko Myllynen studied criteria that companies use when choosing their service provider for e-invoicing. Niko developed a set of nine criteria and conducted a survey yielding 308 responses. The findings of this study suggest that companies regard criteria related to either present or future aspects of business as most important. These include the criteria of End-user Usability, Reach, Economic Viability and Service Development. According to the findings, the criteria that are bound to a single ..
Introduction to Problem
The City of Tampere would like to fully use electronic invoicing in order to handle all of its incoming invoices. The first steps towards this ambition have been made as early as 2003, and currently around 42% of the city’s invoices are handled electronically. In order for the city to reach its goals completely, the following four key challenges have been identified:
1. Getting internal units to advertise electronic invoicing to suppliers
2. Selling the i..
Recommendations for the city of Tampere concerning the complete adaptation to electronic invoicing:
Comperensive internal communication plan: From top to bottom
Engage the chiefs of different departments to actively promote the shift to e-invoicing within the units.
Promotion to suppliers
Customized or industry specific informing in the letter. The benefits of e-invoicing should be promoted to suppliers in the letters. The city of Tampere should emphasize the reciprocal benefits of e-invoicin..
6th European EXPP summit on e-invoicing and operator's forum take place in Munich on 11.-13.10.2010.
http://www.expp-summit.com/index.htm
Electronic invoicing is typically an innovation that enjoys important positive network effects. The more companies we get into the electronic invoicing network, the more valuable is the technology for the nodes in the network. Just like telephone network, fax network, facebook etc. Metcalfe's law states that the value of such a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2). I see that the only way to guarantee the participation of most companies to t..
The discussion about e-invoicing is beating around the bush, at least when it comes to banks involved in the process of exchanging data. Having had the pleasure of working some of the forerunners in electronic invoicing (both banks and operators) I wish to elaborate on the flipside as well, by releasing this note about the status of electronic invoicing in Finland. The opinions stated within are solely my personal and has nothing to do with any entity I might represent. I aim to be as objecti..
Maventa.com has today outranked Enfo Oy and OP-Pohjola Group with its existing Finnish customer base of 2377 legal entities and takes the third position within the Finnish operators. With a user-base across Europe in 13 different countries, the network attains over 12 new Finnish legal entities daily. Source: http://verkkolasku.tieke.fi
Instead of dealing with cumbersome implementation procedures or complex format conversions, Maventa takes care of the heavy-lifting on behalf of the customer...
We have recently published a research paper in which we examine the factors affecting the adoption of electronic invoicing. External pressure from customers (public and private) emerged as one of the key factors from the survey data. Other statistically significant factors were: organizational readiness, perceived benefits and the so called “bandwagon effect”. Our research paper can be found at http://www.hse.fi/NR/rdonlyres/5D5F6A47-4FFD-4CD9-A09A-9EB21 78D0E71/0/PenttinenandTuunainen2009.pdf
We think that some more new and regulating actions are now needed in order to make people accept e-invoicing as an integral part of their daily activities and as an inevitable development. It is also important to emphasize the benefits of e-invoicing in every activity during the promotion.
Being in between its own internal units and the city's suppliers, the Financial Shared Services Center needs to come up with ways to appeal to both of these target groups; it needs to take both internal and ..
The main prolems for the suppliers and the units are the attitudes towards new ways of doing things, lack of information and change resistance.
Our solution for these problems are seminars, personal training, hot line to back up the training and keeping statistics on performance.
At first, we recommend the financial sevice center to call the units and the suppliers for seminars, where the basic facts about e-invoicing are introduced, such as the benefits gained, the easiness of use and the pun..
