Sterling e-Invoicing

Orchestrate the flow of invoice data with both internal systems and external partners

IBM Sterling e-Invoicing helps you adapt to the complex, ever-changing business and technical regulations associated with international electronic invoicing. It automates business processes and tax compliance, using global integration standards to support buyer and supplier compliance in a single solution, while also maintaining conformity with tax regulations for multiple countries.

Reduce the risk of non-compliance with tax regulations through secure signing and validation services and transparent auditing
Reduce costs through the automation of manual invoice processing, archiving and auditing
Simplify the technology management requirements of delivering complex cross border electronic invoicing through a single solution

Sterling e-Invoice can provide your organization with a unique, scalable solution designed specifically to meet the compliance challenges that arise from doing business in the international marketplace. Take control of your invoicing processes with capabilities that include:

Archiving

Archives to specific country requirements
Supports third-party archiving systems, and both on premise and on demand archive services

Audit and reporting

Offers audit tools including a Web interface allowing human-readable display and signature revalidation
Shows ongoing invoice integrity, and certificate validity at time of signing
Reports available to multiple internal and external audiences including local tax authorities

Business processes

Pre-defined business processes designed to support current and future electronic invoice requirements
Supports both buyer and seller processes in a single solution

Certificate authority network

Full integration and partnerships with Qualified Certificate issuers and authorized time-stamping authorities where required
Wide range of advanced certificate options
Registration authority (RA) capabilities for many certification authority partners

Compliance Map™

Provides detailed, up-to-date compliance data from local law firms, tax advisors, and tax authorities
Contains documentation of key compliance processes and legal requirements
Allocates single (supplier country-compliant) or double (both supplier and buyer country-compliant) signatures based on country-specific requirements
Includes end-to-end process analysis including domestic and cross-border flows

Data validation

Verifies content according to business rules based on company and tax regulatory requirements
Rejects incorrect invoices before they touch internal systems or go out to trading partners

Deployment options

Choice of flexible deployment options (either on premise or on demand)
Allows companies to optimize technology and resource requirements to best suit their needs

Signing and validation

Logically and operationally separates supplier and buyer functions
Applies signatures based on invoice origin and destination parameters
Performs cryptographic verification and online status checking with certification authorities
Supports double signatures, multiple signature and document formats
Supports ‘on-behalf-of’ signing and validation, signing on-behalf-of suppliers and validating on-behalf-of customers

Standards

Communication with the secure signature process server is based on client-side authenticated SSL
Supports the following security protocols: CAdES, CMS, ISO 7816, LDAP, OCSP, PKCS #1/7/9/10/12/15, PKIX, S/MIME, PDF, SOAP, SSL, TLS, WSDL, WSS, XKMS, SML, XSLT, X.509