REVIEW E-INVOICING EXCHANGE SUMMIT Americas 2022

The E-invoice Exchange Market Pilot Work Group of the Business Payments Coalition will convene on May 9th preceding the Exchange Summit to discuss the next steps for an E-Invoice Exchange Framework for the U.S.
All delegates are invited to join this workshop free of charge.

Across the many and varied economic and political environments in the Americas, all governments, buyers and sellers, and service providers can benefit from Peppol. Find out how the Peppol Network, Peppol International Invoicing and Peppol CTC can be flexibly and progressively applied to any situation for maximum benefit.

An interactive workshop with OpenPeppol on May 9th preceding the Exchange Summit.
All delegates are invited to join this workshop free of charge.

Your networking experience starts right here. All participants and speakers are invited to attend the Icebreaker Reception and to pick up their badges.

Many corporations face a complex, fragmented invoicing process including manual delivery which is prone to error and costly delays, impacting the ability to collect and optimize the order to cash cycle.  Ultimately this creates a poor customer experience. The overall objective is to make B2B payments more efficient across the end-to-end payments process and that ultimately begins with an invoice.  Recently, Microsoft embarked on a project to address these issues:

+ Making connected invoice experience easy including enhancing the ‘PO-Invoice-Payment’ experience, digital invoice delivery, flexible payment terms, and enabling a better customer experience meeting their needs for flexible invoice delivery into their P2P systems.
+ Offer flexible invoicing and payment options focused on providing self-serve, digital experiences allowing customers options to secure financing, payment terms, and bridge payment solutions quickly.

The project focus is to develop a scalable e-invoicing strategy to meet commercial & government requirements, help drive industry standards for automation, optimize E2E efficiency at scale, improve customer satisfaction, and enable on-time payments using a secure framework with common standards and protocols for invoicing. These changes will help enable more efficient B2B payments across the board. 

+ Robotic automation has replaced manual routine tasks 
+ Staffing concerns has lead businesses to automate 
+ Employee skill set shift from transactional to analytical
+ Enhanced process management 

+ Introduction Aeromexico – Mexico's Flagship Airline
+ Lessons learnt - the Journey to E-Invoicing
+ Outlook – Challenges for the Airline Industry 

Tax is driving the need for businesses to adopt e-invoicing across the globe. As tax becomes an integral part of day-to-day BAU operations, this session will explore the key changes, trends, opportunities and challenges. Kid and Alex from Avalara will provide insights in relation to the importance of tax across AP/AR e-invoicing processes and look at how e-invoicing and digital reporting is quickly changing the traditional indirect tax lifecycle, including:
 
+ Move from local and tactical solutions to a strategic global and scalable approach to e-invoicing and tax processes
+ Harmonisation of e-invoicing requirements through wider adoption of PEPPOL, the EU’s VAT in the Digital Age initiative and the latest Factur-X / ZUGFeRD format
+ Tax and compliance process benefits resulting from e-invoicing and e-reporting including pre-populated VAT returns, incentives and digital archiving
+ Increased visibility due to real time validation leading to importance of correct VAT calculation at time of issue of invoice
+ Alignment of business process with tax reporting processes
+ The expansion to B2C and the consumer as a stakeholder

+ Regional Update on the various GIF Compliant eDelivery Networks in Operation
+ Moving from Collaboration to Integration, developing deployment models
+ 2022-2023 GIF Work plan, an update on the planned activities underway by the Workgroup

+ Learn more on the progress the BPC is making towards developing the exchange framework for the United States
+ Learn who is involved with the market pilot and how E-Invoicing Exchange Summit attendees can participate
+ Lean on what the future holds for the exchange framework beyond the market pilot

This session brings together a panel of thought leaders to discuss how to build on the various successful regional and national initiatives and models for interoperability to create a truly global approach.

+ Managing diversity and commonality - where are the pressure points?
+ What is working consistently and why?
+ How to reconcile different business, fiscal and legal models?
+ Building consensus and an alliance of stakeholders.

All participants and speakers are invited to enjoy dinner and refreshments in a casual atmosphere. Use this perfect opportunity to intensify your business contacts and grow your network.

+ How does real time E-Invoicing (clearance) change the rules?
+ Does the centralized VAT process become an issue?
+ What is the role of technology in the work of tax departments
+ Future of tax technology: Which processes will exactly be automated?

+ Find out the key developments in Peppol
+ Hear about the key learnings from the pre-conference workshop
+ Discover why Peppol adoption in Japan is important to the Americas

+ How the implementation of Peppol based E-Invoice in Japan can achieve two goals at the same time
- First goal: Meeting the legal requirements as tax invoice
- Second goal: Digitalizing and streamlining invoicing/payment and accounting processes
+ How the government and the private sector work together to achieve the common goals

+ Ukraine today
+ Current status of E-Invoicing
+ Perspectives and upcoming trends and solutions

+ The road so far
+ Previous experiences
+ Some possibilities

In today’s world, companies are facing more hurdles than just managing various e-invoice regulatory requirements. Clearance models, interoperability, PEPPOL, portals, industry-specific EDI, paper distribution, and PDF distribution are just a few of the various channels that require constant attention, maintenance, and support. A lacking integrated strategy can lead to even more tedious manual processes, decreased productivity and wasted resources. Prepare for the future by learning how to standardize your invoice output across all communication channels to reduce costs and risks while increasing productivity and driving maximum operational success.

+ Challenges slowing down your E-Invoicing projects
+ Future-proof strategies to holistically optimize your invoicing process
+ Multi-national company success stories

+ How one centralized platform serves as an enabler for the whole P2P Process 
+ How digitized E2E process are increasing automation within Accounts Payables of Bosch 
+ How increased transparency can reduce support inquiries and boost customer satisfaction 
+ How an ecosystem can help to overcome challenges of a global eInvoicing approach 

AI has advanced drastically over the last few years. This includes document processing and natural language understanding. And these advances enable automated processing of a wide variety of financial documents, from invoices to credit reports, to balance sheets. This talk will cover how to use AI technology for automated financial document processing, including an end to end use case.