EDITEL expands to Germany

EDI service provider EDITEL expands to Germany

The internationally active expert provider for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), headquartered in Vienna, is boosting its German business with a new branch in Eschborn, Hesse, in the vibrant FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region. The company’s many German business clients in the retail and consumer goods, logistics, pharmaceutical and automotive sectors will now benefit from even better on-site support from EDITEL.

After establishing numerous branches in Central and Eastern Europe, EDITEL, one of the leading international EDI service providers, recently founded a German subsidiary in Eschborn. Effective immediately, EDITEL now also supports international companies from the FrankfurtRhineMain metropolitan region in the digitalization and automation of their supply chains, in particular through the electronic exchange of business documents such as orders, despatch advices, and invoices. Virtually every company worldwide can be reached via the central data hub eXite^® from EDITEL. More than 20,000 companies from various industries are already actively using the EDI platform for Electronic Data Exchange. By optimizing and harmonizing supply chains, Electronic Data Interchange leads to increased efficiency, improved (data) quality, and cost savings.

New competence center optimizes digital processes

“With this step, we aim to be even closer to our clients in Germany, to accompany them in the digitization and automation of their processes along the value chain, and to support them in saving valuable resources and costs,” says Gerd Marlovits, CEO of EDITEL Austria at the headquarters in Vienna, regarding the company’s goals. “In addition, companies are facing new legal requirements, such as the gradual implementation of mandatory e-invoicing starting from 2025, or the modernization of value-added tax (VAT) regulations (ViDA) in the EU, expected from 2030. With our new ViDA Competence Center, we want to advise companies on all matters related to e-reporting and e-invoicing and prepare them in good time with modern digital solutions,” says Mr. Marlovits.

Legal requirements drive digitization

With the Growth Opportunities Act, the German legislature is taking a major step toward mandatory e-invoicing in the B2B sector starting on January 1, 2025. From then on, obtaining the invoice recipient’s consent to exchange invoices electronically is no longer required. This means that affected companies must be able to receive e-invoices in a structured format and process them electronically. Since late 2020, suppliers to the federal government (B2G) in Germany have been obligated to issue invoices for public contracts in specified electronic formats. In addition, the EU Commission’s VAT initiative “VAT in the Digital Age” (ViDA) is expected to impose further e-reporting and e-invoicing duties on companies from 2030. “Many companies do not yet have this on their radar, but should be strategically prepared,” urges Mr. Marlovits.

Potential for more than 10 billion e-invoices in Europe

There is still huge potential for digitization in the area of invoices alone: in Germany, invoices are still mainly sent on paper or unstructured by e-mail. According to the “Global e-invoicing and tax compliance report” (2024) by Billentis, the potential for electronic invoices in the European B2B sector is more than 10 billion e-invoices this year, and the trend is rising.

“Companies are still leaving enormous cost-saving potential untapped in invoicing alone, not to mention the sustainability aspect of e-invoicing through paper reduction. Structured e-invoices minimize manual sources of error and make companies future-ready for easier digital processing in the ERP and merchandise management systems of their business partners. Even beyond e-invoices, there is still potential in the digitalization of upstream processes,” explains Mr. Marlovits.

Both in the B2B and B2G sectors, the EDITEL Competence Center supports companies in the creation, validation, conversion, and transmission of electronic invoices. EDITEL also offers access to the European PEPPOL network (Pan-European Public Procurement OnLine), which is particularly important for e-invoices to the public administration (B2G) in some EU countries.