E-Invoicing in SAP

But why is the topic of e-invoicing so relevant for your company?
If the business partner to be supplied is a contracting authority such as public authorities, municipalities, insurers or utilities and waste disposal companies, the possibility of sending paper or PDF invoices to contracting authorities will be completely eliminated. All invoices sent to contracting authorities from this date onwards must be sent electronically via the European communication platform PEPPOL. According to EU Directive 2014/55/EU, "normal" or "conventional" invoicing is no longer possible as of November 2020.

In order to be able to guarantee automatic processing on the part of the Confederation and to prevent every federal contractor from sending its own format, a central XML standard has been introduced, the XInvoice. For the time being, this XInvoice standard will replace the traditional paper invoices in the German B2G or B2A area, but can also be used for B2B scenarios. In general, it is about the exchange of electronically processable invoice data between their SAP system, the central invoice receipt platform of the federal government and the federal government.