The slow take-up of e-invoicing could be
costing the UK public sector £2bn a year,
according to a new white paper from OB10,
part of the Tungsten Group.
E-Invoicing in the UK public sector: a missed
opportunity?
is based on OB10’s submission to
a Committee launched by Stephen McPartland
MP to set up a Parliamentary Inquiry into the
slow adoption of e-invoicing across the UK
public sector.
Based on feedback from its customers, OB10
estimates that e-invoicing has the potential to
save up to €11 per invoice for buyers and around
€6 for suppliers. This equates to a 60% reduction
in the cost of processing a paper invoice and a time-saving of 10
minutes per invoice.
Luke McKeever, executive director of Tungsten Corporation, said:
“There is an annual savings potential of at least £2bn across the UK
public sector based on conservative assumptions. A lack of central
direction and policy drivers has resulted in the UK lagging behind
countries such as the Nordics, Brazil and Mexico, where government-
driven schemes are driving huge savings.”
HP is introducing a new
range of MFPs for managed
print services customers with
high volume print, copy and
scan requirements.
The HP S900 Series –
badged Sharp devices – come
fully integrated with a number
of HP solutions, including fleet
management, security and
document workflow, and are
delivered exclusively as part of
an HP Managed Print Services
(MPS) agreement.
HP is introducing the higher
speed A3 devices so that
customers can standardise
on HP devices for all their
office printing needs and save
time and money by bringing
outsourced print jobs back
in-house.
Pradeep Jotwani, senior
vice president, HP LaserJet
and Enterprise Solutions, said:
“The new HP S900 Series MFPs
coupled with HP’s print solutions
increase the choice and flexibility
offered through our HP Managed
Print Services engagements.
In turn, customers are able to
unify their print environments
with one vendor to reduce costs,
improve workflow and increase
productivity.”
The new MFPs will meet the
needs of the growing number
of organisations that want to
combine MPS and print-room
contracts. In its report
The
Next Frontier for Managed
Print Services
(January 2013),
Quocirca states that 15% of
organisations already use a
single provider for their print
room and office environments
and a further 22% are
considering doing so.
The HP S900 Series
includes one mono MFP (the
HP MFP S956dn) and three
colour MFPs (the HP Color MFP
S962dn, HP Color MFP S951dn
and HP Color MFP S970dn),
with print speeds ranging from
51 to 70 pages per minute.
The MFPs have paper
capacities of 1,100 to 8,600
sheets and can be specified
with a variety of finishing options
including stapling, saddle
stitching, booklet making, hole
punching, folding and trimming.
Each device is equipped with
HP Web Jetadmin; HP Remote
Monitoring; HP Universal Print
Driver for remote management;
HP Access Control for security,
job accounting and pull
printing; and HP Capture and
Route for improved workflow
and document management.
The launch of the HP S900
Series follows the recent
introduction of the HP LaserJet
Enterprise M800 Series
of departmental and light
production devices.
HP launches high volume
MFPs exclusively for MPS
customers
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The first of gazillions
Showing the date and location of its creation, this is the world’s
first xerographic copy. It was created by Chester Carlson 75
years ago in a rented second storey room in Queens, New York.
Carlson’s vision at the time of his Astoria experiment was “to
make office workers a little more productive and office work a
little simpler and less tedious”.
European small and medium-sized businesses are setting
the pace in the digital transformation of business processes,
according to analysis commissioned by Ricoh Europe.
Research by Coleman Parkes reveals that businesses with fewer
than 500 employees are closer to achieving full digitisation than
large businesses, with almost two thirds of SMBs (64%) expecting
to digitise their remaining physical documents within the next three
years, compared to 46% of large businesses.
Three quarters (78%) of SMB business leaders said their
employees could work on documents from any work-supplied mobile
device, compared to 69% of managers in large organisations.
The study also highlights areas of risk for SMBs, notably
the greater use of personal drives to store information (62% of
employees in SMBs, compared to 55% in large organisations). This,
warns Ricoh, can hinder effective information sharing and result
in the loss of important business insights if employees leave a
company and critical documents are not retrieved.
In addition, Ricoh points out that most organisations still have a
long way to go before they become truly collaborative: 55% of SMB
leaders and 53% of large business leaders confessed that their
organisation was not a sharing company.
SMEs setting the pace in digital
transformation
Paper invoices cost public sector billions
