e-Invoice from ErgoGroup MarineLink are offered ship owners/ship managers and marine suppliers and can be used together with BuyerLink and SupplierLink or as a stand-alone solution.

With e-Invoice suppliers automatically issues electronic invoices directly from their system to their customer(s). Ship owners/ship managers receives the e-Invoice directly into their system, eliminating the paper invoice and the related work.

How does it work?

Through integration with various suppliers back office systems, ErgoGroup MarineLink is picking up outgoing invoices, transforming them into XML documents, encrypting them and routing them to the integrated buyer side systems of various kinds. The transfer is fully automatic, done in seconds and never manually worked on before the invoice is ready in the buyer side application for standard approval and remittance. The core solution is based on standard XML, but both various XML dialects and EDIFACT are supported.

Benefits

Both the receiver of the e-invoice (ship owners/ship manager) and the sender of the e-invoice (supplier) experience lower process times and reduced administration costs. This is especially related to the fact that all manual work with printing and sending the invoice is eliminated and that the approval process is automated.

Customers have reported great savings with the use of e-invoice, amongst others that re-invoice rates have been reduced with 40 %.