{"id":3310,"date":"2017-12-12T18:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2022-09-06T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:23:09","slug":"pushing-supplier-portal-use-for-non-edi-invoices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peeriosity.com\/shared-services\/articles\/2017\/12\/pushing-supplier-portal-use-for-non-edi-invoices\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Supplier Portal Use for Non-EDI Invoices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For Accounts Payable departments<\/a> which are processing thousands of transactions every day, while it\u2019s helpful that a high percentage of transactions are automated using ERS (Evaluated Receipts Settlement), where no invoice is required to generate payment), EDI (where invoice information is received electronically using defined formatting standards), or Purchasing Cards<\/a> (where purchases are made using a credit card), many transactions don\u2019t fit cleanly with these structured alternatives.\u00a0 One approach that is increasingly popular is to reduce paper invoices by having suppliers complete the data entry for outlier transactions using a supplier portal<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

iPollingTM<\/sup> Results Review
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Recently, the Global P2P Manager at a Peeriosity member company with $10 Billion USD in annual revenue created a poll using the iPollingTM<\/sup> technology to better understand the approach peers take to accommodate invoice submissions using channels other than EDI. \u00a0While no companies require the supplier portal as the only alternative, 10% of companies require the transaction to be paperless, either using the supplier portal or sending the invoice by e-mail.\u00a0 54% of member companies use a combination of supplier portals, e-mail, and paper.\u00a0 36% indicated they don\u2019t have a supplier portal option, requiring them to use some combination of e-mail and paper.\u00a0 No companies responded that paper invoices were the only alternative.\u00a0 Here are the details:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"iPolling:<\/p>\n

The next question in the poll examined the approaches companies take to encourage adoption by suppliers to using a portal.\u00a0 The most popular approach, at 48%, is to offer the portal free of charge for invoice<\/a> submission.\u00a0 52% of member companies go a step further, with 26% marketing the positive impacts to the supplier (e.g., improved processing times, no payment delays), and 21% rejecting paper invoices under certain circumstances to force compliance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"iPolling:<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the comments from Peeriosity members:<\/span><\/p>\n