The public sector has been using PEPPOL for a couple of years now, which has required suppliers to be able to send e-invoices in the PEPPOL BIS Billing 3 standard. The curiosity about PEPPOL is now spreading to other industries and sectors to an increasing degree. The technology and advantages of PEPPOL are based on clearer standards, which makes it possible to keep costs down while also being able to search for and add new parties from an address book.
PEPPOL is originally an abbreviation for Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line and is a solution for electronic procurement developed at the European level to make e-commerce and e-procurement easier. PEPPOL’s ‘four-corner model’ offers many advantages. Thanks to the standardization of formats and communication methods, the cost of both connecting new trading partners and operations can be kept low. This is because PEPPOL does not rely on point-to-point setups. In addition, PEPPOL also provides improved support for acknowledgments and traceability.
- Common standards for various messages in the procurement process, such as price lists, orders, and invoices
- Common technical protocols for electronic communication
- Common registries that make it easy to find business partners connected to Peppol
- Common rules for collaboration between business partners and their respective operators
- An organization at the European level with regional anchoring to develop, manage, and provide support for Peppol
Where is PEPPOL used?
PEPPOL is the European standard that future communication methods will increasingly be based on and has also begun to be adopted by other parts of the world, including Asia, America, and Oceania.
The previously recommended SVE format has, according to SFTI, passed its expiration date and should not be used for new e-invoice setups. Within the framework of PEPPOL, the invoice flow is the most used message type, although other types (order, price catalog, etc.) will increasingly be used in the future.
With Viaduct as a PEPPOL access point, we can help ensure that your communication occurs as much as possible through PEPPOL, while still being able to communicate with older format standards.
The maturity level of the PEPPOL standard varies greatly between different countries and industries. Therefore, there may be a need for alternative ways to communicate. Through the breadth of communication methods and extensive experience, Viaduct allows both the “new” and the “old” to coexist. In this way, desired communication can be set up through PEPPOL while certain communication (for example, through EDIFACT) is used when necessary. This need can arise from your company or from a customer or supplier where specific message types (order, order response, delivery notification, etc.) simply do not exist or have not reached the required maturity level.
Viaduct has long been a certified PEPPOL access point, which means we can help our customers get started – whether they are senders or receivers