The project
To fulfill the traditional goals of any invoice dematerialization project, Bureau Veritas’ method included a total overhaul of its Purchase to Pay processes. The solution found had to take into account the diversity of invoicing cases and practices in countries where Bureau Veritas did business, as well as the differences in suppliers’ levels of maturity. “We want to offer an outsourced service for invoice dematerialization to our customers enabling us to provide them with real added value. b-process rose to the challenge of meeting our needs in terms of operations and quality, offering an all-in-one solution, both simple to implement and to use”, explained Marc Boissonnet, Bureau Veritas Sales and Marketing Director.
The solution
For all of these reasons, the company chose b-process to manage the sending out of invoices as an outsourcer, enabling it both to set itself apart from the competition and improve its invoicing process. Bureau Veritas’ choice was motivated by the flexibility of the b-process solution, the ease of its use and its evolved billManager™ platform functions, such as the activation of data specific to Bureau Veritas’ professions and invoice processing in different formats (EDI, PDF and paper).
The project’s success also can be attributed to the mastery of the entire process and its organizational, legal, technical, financial and cultural impacts. b-process’ billManager™ solution offers Bureau Veritas’ customers a platform-based service enabling them to a tax compliant invoices dematerialization, from their emission right up to payment—with no paper printing—as well as legal invoice archiving via CDC (Caisse des Dépôts) Arkhinéo’s electronic safe ®.
Available in ASP mode and perfectly compatible with extant technology and systems, billManager™ is unobtrusive for customer information systems and does not need any additional hardware or licence acquisitions. Little by little the platform has become a must-have collaborative tool and edits around 600,000 invoices yearly.
Results
600,000 dematerialized invoices per year
Differentiation compared to competition
Benefits
- Improved invoicing process
- Invoice management time optimization
- Elimination of paper invoice flows (a plus for the environment)
- Facilitation of research and the access to information
- Cost cutting
Customer profil
Activity
International group specialist in: inspection, analysis, audit and certification products, infrastructures and systems of management.
Key figures
- 14 countries
- Network of 700 offices
- 33,000 people
- Turnover €uros 2,067 million
"In its more elaborate version, billManager™, the b-process platform, is going to enable our customers to integrate their Bureau Veritas invoices directly into their accounting systems to free them from any and all manual data entry, improve the quality of their end of term closing, consult invoices on an Internet portal to make the validation process easier, and finally save money on printing and paper storage."
Marc Boissonnet, Sales and Marketing Director, Bureau Veritas