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The Finnish public sector - headed by the MoF - has for many years been promoting e-invoicing. Now the state-sector has decided that 2009 is the last year for manual invoices. Most of the transition will happen this year as the procurement organisation already since last year have had e-invoicing as a standard clause in frame and other agreements with suppliers.
There are 15 EU countries with similar plans - or have already made their move like Denmark, Italy and Sweden.
This means that ..
STORY: RTE is in everybody's interest but It is a long way. How can it be achieved?
There is no giant leap option. To get there we need to see the stairway and constantly keep moving up. In countries were payment references are in use many important automation features have already been completed. E-banking is an important element and needs to be improved further to cater for the next step - e-invoicing - in itself saving more than 230bn€ processing costs in EU - but even more importantly being..
