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It is now just under 3 months left until our Nordic E-Invoicing Congress takes place and we are very pleased to announce that our Chairman for the event is Mr Charles Bryant. Charles is Senior Adviser to the Euro Banking Association with a focus on electronic invoicing

Bio of Mr Charles Bryant;
He was a member of the European Commission e-Invoicing Expert Group, is involved in an EBA working group and attends the CEN Workshop on e-invoicing. He was formerly Secretary General of the European Payments Council, which is responsible for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative, coming to that role from the senior team at SWIFT, the financial messaging and standards organisation. Prior to 1997, he had pursued a career in banking with Chase, Midland (now HSBC) and Natwest with roles in trade and payments, investment and corporate banking.

Our Nordic E-Invoicing Congress attracts end-users from the whole of the Nordic region with titles such as; CFO, Head of Finance, Head of Procurement, Head of Accounts receivable, Head of Accounts Payable, Finance manager and many more involved in invoicing.

This is a perfect opportunity to network with your peers as well meet the leading solution providers whom will present state of the art solutions.

I look forward to meet you in Stockholm on the 11 of November.

Best regards,

Charlotte Borg Johansson, Head of Division; E-Finance Forum

Learn from Pan-Nordic Leading Examples on e-Invoicing and e-Procurement

The first ‘Pan-Nordic e-invoicing, e-procurement and purchase-to-pay Summit 2010’ has invited leading best practice companies and organizations, innovative system providers and other important market stake holders for one day of cutting edge information sharing and networking. Scandinavia is world leading in the area of automised processes and it is due time to present a summit that can facilitate Nordic and European companies into developing further!

We proudly present a day that will cover all you need to know, presented by the leading organizations you want to learn from. During the day you will gain insights and tools to cut costs  as well as take control over vital parts of your financial supply chain.

Key topics during the day include:

Legal and structural key questions
• The latest news on Nordic and European operator interoperability
• Learn about the Nordic and European legal aspects of cross-border transactions

Internal and external process best practise
• Secure internal process optimization – see how to achieve streamlined processes with organizational buy-in
• Take part of Nordic actors’ views on how to optimize processes from purchase-to-pay to save costs and optimize cash flow
• The SME opportunity – how to gain further efficiencies from e-invoicing and process automisation?
• Maximize the supplier-customer relationship through integrated communication networks – in-depth reviews of both the sender and receiver sides!

To maximize your learning and networking experiences, the event offers a number of complementary sessions.  You are involved in roundtable discussions, workshops and one-to-one meetings during the day. Do not miss out on this unique opportunity to learn from and benchmark against the leading organizations in the Nordic region.

Welcome to Stockholm on the 10th of November 2010!

Sincerely,

Anna Näsmark, Editorial Director
Tfn: +46 8 676 01 80, e-mail: anna.nasmark@e-financeforum.com

For the seventh time E-Finance Forum`s pan Nordic tour went to Sweden and Stockholm. Approximately 150 people benchmarked and networked at the Grand Hôtel. In this year’s three track Round table sessions, the participants discussed interesting Swedish challenges and solutions for 2010/2011. A big thank you to: PEAB, VOLVO, IBM, Nasdaq OMX, Ericsson, Lernia, ABB, Aleris, Schenker, AGA, SSAB, Cordial, for sharing your best practice experiences.

Thank you to all our speakers, delegates and partners. We look forward to see you all again at our next event “Nordic e-invoicing and Purchase to Pay Summit”, Stockholm 10 November 2010 at the Grand Hôtel, Sweden. During the day you will gain insights and tools on how to cut costs as well as take control over vital parts of your financial supply chain. The already confirmed speakers include: DHL, Kinnarps, Coop Handel, ISS, Gärde Wesslau, DIFI, ESV, IT & Telestyrelsen and Økonomistyrelsen.

This autumn e-financeforum.com will continue to maximize your learning and networking experiences. Do not miss out on this unique opportunity to learn from and benchmark against the leading organizations in the Nordic region.

See you in Stockholm in November!

Robert Dahlqvist Marketing Manager e-financeforum.com

E-invoicing is creating great expectations. Policymakers and interest
groups expect the electronic invoice to yield potentially huge savings and open up
new areas of business. The interest being shown by companies, however, is
muted. Just 22% of companies use e-invoicing and only 5% of invoices are
currently sent electronically.

Only integrated processes yield cost savings. The big potential savings
come not from spending less on printing or postage, but from using modern,
automated processes for all invoice-related tasks. Advocates of the electronic
invoice believe that it will trigger these modernisations in a catalytic process,
whereas sceptics see e-invoicing as more like the final stage in an already largely
automated invoice processing system.

The legal situation and the lack of interoperability are holding back
the rollout. Lawmakers need to grant the electronic invoice completely equal
status to the paper invoice and to dispel legal uncertainties. Moreover, the
technical fragmentation of the market has to be resolved. Each user has to be
able to interchange electronic invoices with every other user regardless of the
selected e-invoicing provider and its application. Constructing such a network
requires a common technical standard that enables interoperability between the
e-invoicing providers.

Standard-setting by market participants is desirable. To date no such
market standard has become established. The competition between e-invoicing
suppliers could be complemented by a level of technical cooperation: service
providers, private and public users should jointly define a standard. The adoption
of e-invoicing by the public sector would not only provide a boost to the volume of
electronic invoices issued, it would implicitly also enhance the legal certainty of
electronic invoicing.

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Robert Dahlqvist Marketing Manager e-financeforum.com

On the 6th of May the first organisation wide conference taking on issues such as e-invoicing, e-procurement and purchase-to-pay takes place at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm.During one full day 14 companies share their strategies and best practice on how to optimize processes, how to motivate staff and how to take control over the financial supply chain.

Content include world famous Volvo and IBM – come closer to their success factors – breaking it down to serve as an inspiration even for smaller and less advanced companies. We have inspirational speakers on – do not miss Per-Arne Jonsson, a former procurement director of Kraft Foods – he knows how to continue to cut costs moving out from a recession and a buyers market!

There are many solutions to choose from and you need to know your own business in order to get the solution that cut costs for you and give you a rapid ROI. During plenum presentations and round table discussions we will go into details on what to consider and what pall pits to avoid.

After the roundtable discussions you will even have the possibility to go even deeper into different solutions as you can meet InExchange, StreamServe, Basware and Medius close and up-front in demo sessions.

Also – the forgotten perspective – learn from those few companies that have developed a sustainable strategy for sending e-invoices – the key to grow the market!

A big thank you and looking forward to hearing you share your best practice experiences – PEAB, VOLVO, IBM, Nasdaq OMX, Ericsson, Lernia, ABB, Aleris, Schenker, AGA, SSAB, Cordial

During the day you will meet the following participating companies: EFG, PayEx Finance, Nordea Bank, Sandvik, SRF, Vattenfall, S:t Eriks, Sensus studieförbund, HM, Vasakronan, SCA Skog, Otto Bock Scandinavia, TeliaSonera, Sensus studieförbund, Cramo, Carema, Otto Bock Scandinavia, Akademiska hus, Skandia, Otto Bock Scandinavia, G4S Security Services, Botkyrka Kommun, Saab Group, Nasdaq OMX Technology, Outokumpu Stainless, SBAB, ABB, Gambro Lundia, ATG, ATG, Svenska Interpress, Scania, EnterCard Sverige, Carema Shared Services, Svenska Shell, Tieto Corporation, Heeros Systems, Jetpak Group, Saab Automobile, Camfil Svenska, Botkyrka kommun, Securitas Sverige, Kontorsvaruhuset, TDC, G4S Security Services,  Sabi, Posten, Deloitte, Migrationsverket, VG Group Truck Equipment, Kontorsvaruhuset Sverige, Volvo, PEAB, ABB, Lernia, Nasdaq OMX, AGA, Schenker, SSAB, Ericsson, Cordial, Kraft Foods, OKQ8…

In November last year e-Finance Forum started a Nordic e-invoicing tour in Oslo, moved on to Stockholm, followed by Helsinki and now finished this time around in Copenhagen. The first e-invoicing conference in Denmark was a great success, with about 150 people meeting at the beautiful D’Angleterre, sharing experiences in this complex and interesting subject. 

Denmark with its ground breaking efforts starting in 2005 is still showing the way through NemHandel and PEPPOL – moving towards more atomized flows and more transparent and effective procurement. How they will succeed? We will have to follow the development closely.

As the EU Expert Group on e-invoicing is focusing on the e-invoicing and PEPPOL on procurement it is clear that it is not easy for private (or public) companies to facilitate all the opportunities available. Through roundtable discussions, surveys, networking and plenum presentations e-Finance Forum is making an impact on the market growth in e-invoicing.

 We will continue to do so – next time in May in Stockholm for an all time high day gathering finance – procurement and IT.

 A big thank you to all speakers, participants and partners – we look forward to seeing you again!

Anna Näsmark, Editorial Director, e-finance forum

Charlotte Borg Johansson, Head of Division, e-finance forum

Videos from e-financeforum.com 2010, press the arrows to the left and right on the video screen to navigate thru the interviews. (For full screen view doubble click on the video screen.)

1: Intense networking with each other and solution providers

2: Everyone getting to know each other and building their network

3: Roundtable discussions session 1 of 2 moderated by thought leaders

For the first time E-Finance Forum`s pan Nordic tour went to Finland, Helsinki. Approximately 80 people benchmarked and networked at the Hilton Kalastajatorppa. In the networking zone with the B2C & B2B Round table sessions, the participants discussed interesting Finish challenges and solutions for 2010.

Thank you to all our speakers, delegates and partners. We look forward to see you all again at our next E-Invoicing event in Helsinki that is planned for November 2010.

Next week our E-Invoicing tour takes us to Copenhagen where the next E-Invoicing event takes place on the 11^th of March. Already we have approximately 100 end-users that are booked on and 12 supporting partners.

This spring e-financeforum.com will continue to assist decision-makers in order to move forward in searching for new possible business opportunities and solutions.

See you in Copenhagen!

Robert Dahlqvist Marketing Manager e-financeforum.com

Videos from e-financeforum.com 2010, press the arrows to the left and right on the video screen to navigate thru the interviews. (For full screen view doubble click on the video screen.)

1: StoraEnso sharing best practise

2: Networking during the day

3: Panel debate between EU Expert Group, FKL, PEPPOL, State Treasury

In times’ of financial crisis, e-finance forum has risen to concur organisational challenges throughout the Nordic countries. When others have focused on downsizing we focused on prosperity and future growth. 

Only during 2009 e-finance forum has gathered about 500 decision makers. We investigate and help educate, we invest in corporate meetings and bring experiences together. If there is an organisational challenge within the financial supply chain – we will organise a meeting. Organisations need to optimise processes today in order to be able to grow further tomorrow. And we are there to support them.

Letting company stakeholders know that investments for long-term cost cutting efforts are made and that heavy administration will only be a memory is key for all organizations. Being more efficient, managing and optimizing cash flow as well as taking control over procurement and customer invoicing is increasingly important. Today it is a competitive edge to showcase the success rate within these processes and e-Finance Forum are happy to help spread the word.

Anna Näsmark, Editorial Director, e-finance forum

Charlotte Borg Johansson, Head of Division, e-finance forum

Multiple VAT laws, different currencies, proprietary formats and applications all contribute to the complex nature of e-invoicing in Scandinavia.

Common denominators with e-invoicing in the rest of Europe are the increased efficiency gains and cost savings in excess of 20%.

In the winter and spring off 2010 e-Finance Forum will arrange three e-invoicing conferences in Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland) and in Copenhagen (Denmark). I imagine you would want to be there, and learn more from different case studies and round table clinics? This is why I am inviting you to the e-Invoicing conferences in Scandinavia taking place in 2010. Just choose your city and learn more about:

• New products and creative solutions
• File format types and various standards
• How to navigate around different VAT laws and currencies
• Learn from the leading companies new implementations
• Building your own or purchasing the complete e-invoicing solution 
• Get a grip on all the legal implications of e-invoicing
• Determine your requirements and what you should include in your e-invoicing system

e-Finance Forum’s pan-Nordic events will provide you with exclusive knowledge and insight on e-invoicing in Scandinavia. The biggest e-invoicing events in Northern Europe will leave you with the inspiration and increased confidence required for your successful e-invoicing project. All speaker sessions are case-study focused and based on essential information.

Robert Dahlqvist Marketing Manager e-financeforum.com