PEPPOL

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What is the objective with PEPPOL?

PEPPOL is created to make it easier for small and medium size companies to participate in cross-border trade with the public sector inside EU.

PEPPOL is an EU project, which means that it is ONE standard for all EU. This makes it a lot easier for private companies to exchange electronic documents across all Europe.

But PEPPOL is much more than this. PEPPOL will also make it possible for private companies to exchange electronic documents with each other, also inside a single EU country.

PEPPOL is not only useful inside EU, but also in other parts of the world.

A large corporation can reduce their cost dramatically this way. They can send all orders and invoices and receive all orders and invoices from/to all the suppliers and customers in the same standard.

This has never been more easy than now.

There is no border on the Internet.

PEPPOL stands for Pan-European Public Procurement Online.

PEPPOL is going to make trade across borders in Europe very easy. This is being done by creating common standards and software for all EU countries. These standards describe how electronic documents can be exchanged across Europe, even though the national legislation for electronic invoices can vary from one another.

These new standards will support the processes of tendering, e-catalogs, e-order and e-invoice.
They are based on the CEN/BII standard profiles.

Eg.: Profile urn: www.nesubl.eu:profiles:profile5:ver2.0 (Billing Basic) mean that you must supports receipt of invoice/credit note without a prior order.

Denmark played through National IT and Telecom Agency (NITA), a major role in the project. NITA is a member of PEPPOL's consortium and head of WP8 - Solutions architecture, design and validation.
NITA is also working in WP3 - eCatalogue, WP4 - eOrdering and WP5 - eInvoicing.

The technical part of PEPPOL (transport of documents) has been named BUSDOX.
BUSDOX stands for: Business Document Exchange Network

The specifications of BUSDOX v. 1.0 has been released and consists of:

CommonDefinitions
Service Metadata Locator (SML)
Service Metadata Publishing (SMP)
Secure Trusted Asynchronous Reliable Transport (START)
Lightweight Message Exchange Profile (LIME)
PEPPOL Identifier Schemes

MailEDI works as "Sub-Contractor" under NITA in WP8. We are working with the development of the .NET version of the transport libraries (LIME and START)

The concepts in BUSDOX:

The sending/receiving companies must be registered on an Access Point (AP)
The AP tells a Service Metadata Publishing (SMP) which company the AP ‘own’ and which profile the company supports.
The SMP then tell the Locator Service Metadata (SML) which companies the SMP ‘own’

So if a supplier in Denmark wants to send an invoice to a customer in Germany, then the supplier sends the document to its AP. Then what happens are:

The AP then ask the SML: "where can I find more information on this receiverID?"
The SML returns with the address on the receivers SMP.
Then the AP can ask the receivers SMP: "Where can I find the address on the receivers AP that support the invoice document?"
Then the SMP return the address on the receivers AP.
Then the senders AP will send the document to the receivers AP
The AP will then put the invoice in the receivers "mailbox"
Now the receiver can retrieve the invoice

And because it is the receiver that retrieves the documents, the receiver does not have to have an application up and running 24/7

Read more about PEPPOL ...
Read more about the working groups ...
Read more about Working WP8 ...
Read more about BUSDOX specifications ...