Hi, Our European parent company has been increasing their use of EDI this year, and my colleague has questions regarding the electronic transmission of Invoices in the absence of a paper invoice. We, of course, use EDI instead of the paper; we archive the EDI documents we send so we could resend these if needed or have them available for other questions and legal purposes. Also, we don't have the VAN doing any processing for us, so this should be just "store and forward". So his question has never come up for us. I thought one of you might have additional insight or information on this, especially the requirement for certification.
The situation and question(s): "We get more and more questions of customers that want us to send their invoices via EDi, without sending a paper copy by mail. Since early 2004, there is a E.U. (European Union) rule that allows companies to do this, on condition that the EDI environment follows certain conditions : - the system has to be certified guarantying that messages can't be modified anymore as soon as they have been send - the systems have to be able to reproduce exactly the same message at any given time (for a certain period) Surely the same rules apply in the US, and/or are on the requirements list of your major customers. Would it be possible to explain us : - how your process of electronic invoicing is working (in the case where you don't send paper copies) - what types of certifications are applied / required - what types of additional controls have been installed. " Thank you. Ken Cox Brach's Confections, Inc. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hn005qg/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705005582:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122925560/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
