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ExPP Summit is almost upon us

ExPP Summit is fast approaching. Few statistics from Bruno Koch:

320 bookings with delegates from 28 countries. Just a few remaining tickets available

Well if you have not got a ticket, I suggest you grab one of the last remaining tickets before the event gets sold out. Here is the agenda:

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 2007

08:30  Registration with coffee and tea

09:30 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING ADDRESS

  • Market Trends
  • Perspectives

Bruno Koch, CEO, Billentis, Switzerland

10:00 eEUROPE

  • E-Invoicing as a key element of future E-Government initiatives
  • Current & future Initiatives supported by the European Community (SEPA, CEN, eBSN, …)
  • What is delaying market penetration?
  • Challenges with electronic identity and digital signature
  • The way forward

Tapani Mikkeli, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission, Brussels

10:40  Networking with coffee and tea in the exhibition


STREAM A: led by André Hintermann, CEO, CONCePTAS

11:30

INVOICE – THE QUEEN OF MESSAGES

  • Demanding requirements of a multinational group
  • Only focus on the electronic invoice or a big bang with closed electronic loop for all relevant messages?
  • Make or Buy
  • Challenges in the implementation and how to solve them – first experience

Ralf Kahre, Senior Manager e-solutions, BASF AG, Germany

12:00

E-INVOICING – THE FUTURE

  • Evolution from E-Statement Presentment to E-Invoicing
  • How to persuade customers
  • E-Invoicing for cost reductions on issuer and recipient side
  • E-Invoicing as a marketing instrument

David Byrne, Sales Support and Marketing, Stena Line Freight, Republic of Ireland


STREAM B: led by Bruno Koch, CEO, Billentis

11:30

E-INVOICING OPERATORS’ FORUM (PART 1)
(access restricted to E-Invoicing operators)

  • Experience and perspective with international interconnection of networks
  • Hear and discuss the stories and visions of B2BE and TietoEnator

12:00

E-INVOICING OPERATORS’ FORUM (PART 2)
(access restricted to E-Invoicing operators)

  • Meeting point: Search and find your future roaming partner

STREAM C: led by Johannes von Mulert, CEO, Vereon AG

11:30

IMPACT OF E-INVOICING AND MATTER MANAGEMENT ON LEGAL DEPARTMENTS COST MANAGEMENT

  • Characteristics and specialties of legal invoices
  • Goals of electronic invoicing and matter management
  • Challenges of implementing an integrated solution
  • Results and lessons learnt

David Cambria, Director of Operations, Law Department, Aon Corporation, United States of America

12:00

EVALUATING AND CHOOSING AN E-INVOICING SYSTEM FOR THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT

  • Creating the business case for procuring a legal e-invoicing system
  • Resources, internal and external, needed for a successful implementation
  • Determining the featureset that will perform best in a real world environment
  • Preparing the business and its processes for implementation and change

Rora Tanaka, Vice President, Law Division, Morgan Stanley, United States of America


12:30  Lunch and networking in the exhibition

STREAM A: led by André Hintermann, CEO, CONCePTAS

14:00

FROM THE IN-HOUSE SOLUTION TO THE COMMUNITY APPROACH

  • Coloplasts’ experience with an in-house solution; possibilities and limits
  • Collaboration in the French pharmaceutical community
  • Evolution from the E-Order to the VAT compliant E-Invoice
  • E-Supply chain implementation
  • The step from in-house EDI to fully outsourced solution

Antoine Peltier, Innovation Dpt Manager, Coloplast, France

14:30

ORDER-TO-CASH AUTOMATION

  • Service-oriented components for Order-to-Cash
  • Automate the Order-to-Cash cycle; dispute resolution and payment process cycles
  • Electronic purchase order and invoice management
  • Interoperability and roaming through providers
  • Manage adaptation to business changes quickly
  • Process improvement analysis

Trevor Batten, IT Manager, Vinidex Piplines Pty Ltd, Australia


STREAM B: led by Serge Labouyrie, EIPP Leader EMEA, Ariba

14:00

KEYS TO ACHIEVING A FULLY AUTOMATED INVOICING AND PAYMENT PROCESS

  • Automation into your Accounts Payable operation is a journey
  • Transform the Accounts Payable processes
  • How to achieve Accounts Payable cost savings, while improving operations efficiency and overall quality and controls

Simon Dunn, Head of Procurement, HSBC Purchasing (Asia) Limited, Hong Kong


STREAM C: led by David Sherriff, Chief Operating Officer, Microgen

14:00

VALUE ADDED E-SERVICES FOR SHARED SERVICES CLIENTS

  • Drivers and focus of our E-Services
  • Internal customer vs external customers
  • The multi-channel bill fulfilment package
  • Beyond E-Billing: handling of statements, court letters, marketing information, payroll, remittance and legal files
  • Insight into the roll-out process

Adrian Bott, Credit Manager, Rentokil Initial Plc, United Kingdom

14:30

SATISFYING BUSINESS CUSTOMERS’ DEMANDS

  • Challenges for a Telco in a highly competitive market
  • Business customers’ demands: Bill analysis, cost management & control
  • Put it into practice
  • Customer reactions

Dieter Roose, Product Manager, Versatel Holding GmbH, Germany


15:00  Networking with coffee and tea in the exhibition

STREAM A

15:45

START E-INVOICING FROM THE SCRATCH

  • Situation before project start and aims for the future
  • Process & workflow overview, optimisation steps
  • Concept, SAP and archive implementation
  • Benefits

Ralf Steinle, Application System Coordinator, ratiopharm GmbH, Germany


STREAM B

15:45

PROCUREMENT TRANSFORMATION WITH A CROSS PUBLIC SECTOR SYSTEM

  • Drivers for a supply confederation
  • How to simplify connectivity between suppliers, buyers and members of other NHS Trusts
  • Make the change
  • The Business Case

Mansel Chamberlain, Procurement Director, North-West London NHS Procurement Confederation, United Kingdom


STREAM C: led by Tom Rahder, Bottomline

15:45

TOTAL INVOICE MANAGEMENT

  • Meeting the challenge to consolidate paper based and electronic invoices in parallel
  • Phasing the migration to suit your suppliers
  • Increasing visibility to deliver wider procurement benefits
  • Benefits beyond AP Automation: Achieving early payment settlement discounts

John Macklin, Accounts Payable Manager, Thames Water Utilities Ltd., United Kingdom


16:20

PANEL DISCUSSION: ROLL-OUT STRATEGIES

  • Problems faced and how they were solved/overgained
  • Ways to convince customers/suppliers of E-Invoicing
  • The right way: forcing or asking?
  • How to do the m
    arketing for “the product”

Panellists:
David Byrne, Stena Line Freight, Republic of Ireland
Peter Downie, Hewlett Packard, Spain
Bengt T. Hansson, Nordea Bank AB (publ), Sweden
Kari Korpela, The European e-Business Support Network, Finland
Brian Thumwood, DHL Worldwide Network nv/sa, Belgium

17:00  Closing remarks and end of first conference day

17:30  Enjoy an informal get-together with colleagues and refreshments and buffet dinner

 

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 2007

09:00

COMBINING E-INVOICING, E-ARCHIVING & E-AUDITING

  • Relevant Guidance Notes from the OECD
  • Standard Audit File – Tax (SAF-T)
  • Impact on E-Invoicing, E-Archiving and E-Auditing for your company

Marc Joostens, Director, Tax Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Belgium


STREAM A: led by André Hintermann, CEO, CONCePTAS

09:40

E-INVOICING – A PERSPECTIVE FROM UK HMRC

  • Challenges and opportunities of the transforming process in a market friendly way
  • National and international developments (law, standards, …)
  • Collaboration of VAT Managers and IT people
  • Role of government

David Chambers, HM Revenue & Customs, United Kingdom

10:10

HP’S GLOBAL E-INVOICING STRATEGY

  • HP Global Shared Services – how the business is organised
  • Looking at E-Invoicing – a global strategy
  • The operational success
  • Moving from project to programme
  • Key Learnings

Peter Downie, HP EMEA E-Invoicing Program Manager, Hewlett Packard, Spain


STREAM B: led by Marcus Laube, Director Financial Value Chain Services, TietoEnator

09:40

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN BANK WITH NEW E-INVOICING SERVICE

  • Motivation for a bank to enter into this market as an active player
  • Priorities in B2B or B2C?
  • Build and operate your own service or cooperate with partners?
  • Preparing the market launch

Jan Jerabek, Head of Section – Corporate Cash Management, Ceska sporitelna, Czech Republic

10:10

INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN ELECTRONIC NETWORKS

  • The model in the ONCE procurement and marketplace environment
  • Current status and challenges
  • How our Members utilize electronic invoicing and documents
  • Outlook

Dave Wallis, Representative of ONCE, United Kingdom


10:40  Networking with coffee and tea in the exhibition

STREAM A

11:30

UNIFYING BANK’S E-BILLING SERVICES

  • Leveraging E-Commerce experience for E-Billing provision
  • B2B, B2C, or just B(ank)2C(ustomers)?
  • Consolidating existing bank channels
  • Multi-channel, multi payment-means offering
  • Online feedback and administration

Dr. Constantine Stivaros, Business Development Manager, Electronic Banking Division, Piraeus Bank Group, Greece

12:00

BANKS ROLE IN E-INVOICING

  • Straight thru processing (STP)
  • Merger of E-Invoice B2B and B2C
  • Implementing a fully integrated Procurement to Pay solution
  • Massive rollout of E-Invoice services (both as a service provider and as a user of E-Invoices)

Bengt T. Hansson, Head of eDocuments, Cash Management Products, Nordea Bank AB (publ), Sweden


STREAM B: led by B2BE

11:30

DELIVERING E-INVOICES ACROSS EUROPE

  • DHL, background, strategy, approach
  • Current status / plans
  • Issues that we have faced, how we have overcome them
  • Opportunities

Brian Thumwood, E-Billing Program Manager Europe, DHL Worldwide Network nv/sa, Belgium

12:00

E-INVOICING IN AN ASSISTANCE AND TRAVEL INSURANCE COMPANY

  • Success factors in implementing an E-Invoice project
  • Methodology and deployment
  • Increasing returns by implementing EDI solution

Michael Rouvière, E-Invoicing Project Manager, Mondial Assistance, France


12:30  Lunch and networking in the exhibition

14:00

APPROACHES FOR UPTAKING OF E-BUSINESS BY SMEs

  • The international initiative eBSN
  • eBusiness project for SMEs in South-Karelian region
  • Impact on the market penetration of E-Invoicing

Kari Korpela, Member of eBSN, The European e-Business Support Network, Finland


STREAM A

14:45

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AUTOMATION

  • The landscape, challenges and objectives with operations in 13 countries
  • Automating accounts payable with fully automated 3 way line item matching
  • Quick win with Supplier Portal
  • Enabling a Shared Service Centre in a low cost location

Ian Duffield, Finance Manager, DSG International, United Kingdom


STREAM B: led by Pascal Sesques, EDI & E-Invoicing Product Director, CEGEDIM

14:45

PANEL DISCUSSION: STANDARDS & E-INVOICING

  • Do we need standards?
  • Domestic vs. international standards
  • Multi-message standards vs. focussed E-Invoicing standards
  • Ways to penetrate the markets

Panellists:
Carmen Ciciriello, SEPA Consultant
Usva Kuusiholma, Expert Member of the Legal Group, UN/CEFACT
David Chambers, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
Anders Grangard, GS1 Global Office
Helle Schade-Sørensen, OASIS and NES, Denmark


15:15  Networking with coffee and tea in the exhibition

STREAM A

15:45

PREPARING THE FIELD FOR E-INVOICING

  • Motivation to launch the project
  • Information gathering and structuring
  • Challenges to introduce an European solution
  • Evaluate the interests of all parties and work out scenarios

Markus Steidle, Head of eCommerce Automotive Aftermarket, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany


STREAM B

15:45

WHOLE STEP FROM ANALYSIS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION

  • Why a global project?
  • The company customer relationship
  • What type of agreements do they expect from the chosen provider?
  • Which target applications?
  • What is the return on investment?

Christophe Saintagne, Marketing Product Manager, Diac Location & Overlease at RCI Banque, France


16:15

ENHANCING CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION VIA INTERNET SELFSERVICE

  • New customer services & communication channel
  • Streamline the internal processes
  • Integrate the new service into the existing environment
  • Moving customers to active users

Guido Fritz, Head of Billing & Statistics, Vattenfall Europe Information Services GmbH, Germany

16:45  Wrap-up and outlook for 2008

17:00  End of the European EXPP Summit 2007

 

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