Every Business is Also Somebody Else’s Supplier
A finance team running SAP Concur usually thinks of e-Invoicing as an incoming problem. A supplier issues something and Concur Invoice has to make sense of it. But that same business is also a supplier to somebody else. Every invoice it sends out, to a customer in Italy, Poland, or wherever the next mandate lands, carries exactly the same legal requirements as the ones arriving in AP. Most SAP Concur customers are built to handle one direction of that problem and exposed on the other.
eezi by VAT IT has partnered with Consilio.io, a SAP Certified Platinum-tier SAP Concur Service Partner, to close both sides of that gap inside the SAP Concur environments Consilio.io already implements and supports.
Concur Invoice was the obvious first stop for e-invoicing, because inbound AP is where the paperwork piles up and where the pain is easiest to see. But the same mandates that govern what a business receives also govern what it sends. A company that is fully compliant on the AP side can still be exposed the moment it issues an invoice of its own. And the reach doesn’t stop at AP: an employee’s expense claim can just as easily carry a supplier’s legal e-invoice underneath a scanned receipt, which means Concur Expense inherits the same problem in miniature.
Solve only the inbound half and a business is still one outbound invoice, or one expense claim, away from the same compliance gap it thought it had closed.
Rather than adding a new system or standing up a separate integration project, joint customers get eezi’s compliance engine embedded into their existing Concur setup as part of a single, guided rollout, run by the team that already knows their Concur environment. That’s the part Consilio.io brings: implementation expertise inside SAP Concur, applied to a compliance layer that now covers both directions of the transaction.
On the accounts payable side, eezi connects to global e-invoice senders, receives structured supplier invoices, and matches them automatically to the correct AP transaction in Concur Invoice, with no manual entry or OCR required. That same matching logic now extends into Concur Expense, so an inbound supplier e-invoice tied to a travel or expense claim gets matched to the relevant expense transaction the same way.
On the accounts receivable side, eezi’s platform formats, validates and submits the compliant outbound invoices the business issues as a supplier, across 60+ countries, including Peppol markets and country-specific platforms. One compliance layer, covering what comes in and what goes out.
e-Invoicing mandates do not stop at accounts payable, and increasingly they do not stop at Concur Invoice either. Extending our matching capability into Concur Expense, alongside Consilio.io’s implementation expertise, means SAP Concur customers can stay ahead of these mandates without adding another vendor or another workflow.
Leigh-Jay Lawrence, Business Development Director at Consilio.io, sees the same pattern from the implementation side: “More and more of our SAP Concur customers are asking how they will meet the e-Invoicing mandates coming into force across Europe and beyond. A combined eezi and SAP Concur solution provides system-to-system integration for automated validation and tax compliance globally, giving our customers peace of mind and enabling AP teams to focus on other activities.”
If your business runs SAP Concur and is navigating e-invoicing mandates on either side of the ledger, this partnership is worth a closer look.
eezi on the SAP Concur App Centre: https://www.concur.com/app-center/listings/685d379c054daff26faba315
Consilio.io SAP Concur Partner Page: https://www.concur.com/partners/consilioio
Get in touch with our team: https://vatit.com/contact-us/
eezi by VAT IT and Consilio.io: SAP Concur e-Invoicing Partnership Every Business is Also Somebody Else’s Supplier A finance team running SAP Concur usually thinks of e-Invoicing as an incoming problem. A supplier issues something and Concur Invoice has to make sense of it. But that same business is also a supplier to somebody […]
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