- Connect once, get access to all
- Within regions, cross markets, cross border
- Reach ALL your customers
- Based on open standards, freely available
- From catalogue, through order to invoice
The goal of PEPPOL is to enable any SME to trade with any public authority within the European market and exchange documents without any previous bi-lateral setup or technical agreements.
Peppol procurement model enables trading partners to exchange documents over the PEPPOL infrastructure that connects existing trade community infrastructures and enables parties to communicate from within their network of trade with parties linked to different trade networks.
By connecting to PEPPOL a service provider can provide European wide access for all his customers, he simply needs to connect once and he will get access for all. The PEPPOL procurement model is based on two major foundations, the infrastructure and the document specifications.
Currently, PEPPOL is being deployed and can be used as basis for wide scale deployment within a region or a country to engage SME and micro enterprises.
The PEPPOL infrastructure is based on a four corner model of interchange, trading partners or service provider on their behalf are connected to PEPPOL using Access Points (AP).
By registering capabilities in Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) any company within the network can send the registered party the corresponding document type without any further technical setup or agreements, thereby lowering the cost of entering into electronic trade with the party.
PEPPOL Business document specifications are formal requirements to ensure pan European interoperability of procurement documents, like invoices. They are based on CEN BII workshop deliverables and address the following issues:
- Choreography of document exchange
- Semantic document model
The choreography deals with capabilities for engaging into varying complexity of exchange and processes and states what your capabilities are and what capabilities you can expect from your trading partners.
The semantic model identifies the content that receivers can be expected to process without any bi-lateral agreement or setup. It provides for the minimal content of a document
Rules constraining the content Use of identifiers and code lists This model ensures that if the sender issues a document according to the rules, he can be certain that all receivers will able to process it in the same way.
PEPPOL currently supports Catalogue, order, invoice and credit note, thereby supporting a coherent procurement process.
The specifications have already been mapped to Oasis/UBL and UN/CEFACT syntaxes and are available for implementers.