Notes from the order desk.
How agents actually work inside SAP and Infor — approval gates, posted documents, mandate clocks.
The e-invoicing mandate clock: what 2026–2030 forces AR and AP to change
Belgium is live, Poland and France land in 2026, Germany phases in from 2027, and ViDA closes the decade. The PDF invoice is on a countdown — here is what structured invoicing concretely changes for AR and AP teams.
MandatesTribal knowledge becomes governed Procedures
Every sales and finance org runs on rules that live in senior people’s heads. Here is how one of those rules — a $50k quote to a new customer — becomes a governed, tested Procedure: uploaded in plain English, compiled into deterministic controls and tests, tested against history, approved by an authorized owner, and versioned.
ProceduresThe machine that answers the machines
Purchasing agents already send machine-generated RFQs at machine tempo. Supplier teams answering them by hand lose on speed and on cost. The answer is a supplier-side decision engine — machine speed, with governance.
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