09 Oct I’m walking backwards for Christmas
Posted at 09:09h
in AP Automation, e-invoicing, e-Procurement, Electronic Invoicing, EU Commission, P2P Europe
In October 2008, some colleagues and I were in Brussels for a European Commission/PEPPOL session. Halfway through the morning we called our office travel agents and asked if they could book us onto earlier flights home and left. During the morning session I wrote in my diary “trying to decide between slitting my wrists or hurling myself from the window. One of the most dispiriting experiences of my life is sitting here listening to policy officers and IT staff talking rubbish and reinventing the wheel. Do our taxes pay for this nonsense? Yes they do”.
Two things reminded me of this recently: the first was reading a PEPPOL Business Interoperability Specification (BIS 28A – Ordering) which was out for review; the second was the reaction when the Draft Directive on eInvoicing managed to omit any mention of PEPPOL.