The document discusses the Open Government of Catalonia's efforts to promote electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) among public sector entities and businesses in Catalonia. It summarizes that:
1) The Open Government of Catalonia established a central HUB model to facilitate e-invoicing, handling interoperability, validation, archiving and feedback to reduce the burden on individual public authorities and businesses.
2) Through this HUB model, the percentage of e-invoices in Catalonia increased from 5% to over 90% in one year, resulting in estimated savings of €32 million per year from reducing paper invoices.
3) The HUB model provides a single entry point for e-invo
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2016.09.22 Exchange Summit. From 5% to 90% of e-Invoices in 1 year. Experience in Catalonia
1. From 5% to 90% of e-Invoices in 1 year
Experience in Catalonia
Miquel Estapé. Open Government of Catalonia
2. About the Open Government of Catalonia
Catalonia
7.5 M
people
+2.200
entities
Mission
Foster the digital
transformation of public
administrations of Catalonia
to achieve efficient, open and
transparent governments
Customers
ALL Catalan
Public sector:
regional, local,
Universities and
other
6. HUB does the “nasty” work for public authorities
HUB
• Single e-Inbox
• Interoperability
• Legal Registry
• Basic syntactic validation
• Certificate & Signature validation
• Archiving
• Feedback about invoice status
Businesses
Publicauthorities
7. +2.3M
paper invoices x yr
Savingsx yr
€32M
days 84M
Sources:
Billentis report 2012
Spanish government report
Consorci AOC
18. ● HUB Model
● EDI experience
● Service proven
● Mandatory
● Savings
● Crisis
● Payment
● Not enough
easy to use
● Semantic
standardization
18
19. EasyBenefits
Mandatory
Change management key factors
• Free
• Savings
• Legal registry
• Accountability
• Less errors
• Free Private and
easy e-Invoicing
services
• Single point for all
the Catalan public
authorities
• Suport
• Training
• Law 25/2013