I would like to share with you some news items that have come up this past month, as well as from the recent OpenPEPPOL General Assembly.

The PEPPOL network now reaches over 190,000 direct addressable entities- up almost 400% from the beginning of 2016 at 51,000.

In France there are another approx. 150,000 public sector entities can receive invoices in ChorusPro, via a single PEPPOL “ClearingHouse” EndPoint. There are many more countries in the process of rolling out PEPPOL services in 2019, so the expected 2020 level will be likely a multiple of this.

• Singapore will start trade by mid 2019


• Australia and New Zealand will begin by the end of 2019.

There are about 220 PEPPOL Service Providers spanning the globe already certified, with another 66 going through accreditation.

AS4 will become the mandatory transport protocol between PEPPOL service providers from Feb 1st 2020. Germany will launch AS4-based PEPPOL services in Q2 2019. Greece is also planning to use AS4, probably sooner than February 2020.

B2B trase use of PEPPOL is seeing far stronger growth than ever before, as exemplified by Equinor’s (formerly Statoil) usage with 3,000+ active trading partners via a single PEPPOL connection. A large propostion of those businesses connected separately to PEPPOL for their own trade needs, and the re-use with Equinor is a Return on Investment boost to all involved.

PEPPOL Directory currently indexes 130,000 PEPPOL Participants, and while it is not yet mandatory for PEPPOL Service providers to be able to publish their client details in PEPPOL Directory, it is very strongly encouraged and will become mandatory once the new PEPPOL service provider Annex 4 transport agreements come into force in Nov 2019. In the meantime, I  expect voluntary connection initiatives across the service provider community will bring the coverage above 95%.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between OpenPEPPOL and GS1, committing both standards bodies to closer collaboration on interoperability.

In the USA, the Business Payments Coalition, an industry expert group convened by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is nearing completion of their analysis of current US and global electronic trade and best practises from both technical and semantic angles. I chair the technical workgroup at BPC.

Our report looks closely at interoperable models such as PEPPOL, and how they apply to US trade, ans we’ll publish later this year.

Lastly April 18th 2019 was the 1st day of effect of  the EU Directive on Electronic Trade (2014/55/EU ‘Electronic Invoicing in public procurement)’.

From now on, European public administrations should be able to process e-Invoices in a harmonised way. PEPPOL is the instrument of choice for compliance with this directive.

As mentioned above, some countries have begun already, and from today, all member states that have not yet begun will come under pressure from the EU to do so.

IBM is a founder-member OpenPEPPOL and continues to contribute strongly across the OpenPEPPOL technical and standards and related workgroups across the globe.

If your organization is looking for help to figure out how you can turn PEPPOL-related trade to your benefit, please contact me.

Ger.Clancy@ie.ibm.com

+353 86 859 6872

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