Footwear Industry Footwear Industry - empirica
Footwear Industry Footwear Industry - empirica
Footwear Industry Footwear Industry - empirica
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<strong>Footwear</strong><br />
Current state of adoption<br />
e-Invoicing can either be accomplished in a web-based environment, or processes can<br />
be integrated with the ERP system of a company. ERP-based systems (which are used in<br />
B2B e-invoicing) promise the highest cost-saving potential for companies. The low<br />
installed base of ERP systems in the footwear industry could, thus, hamper the adoption<br />
of e-invoicing.<br />
In fact, evidence from the survey confirms this assumption. Results show that e-invoicing<br />
is not used as much as in other sectors. In the footwear industry, firms representing about<br />
10% of employment reported sending e-invoices (to customers in the public sector and /<br />
or in the private sectors), and 17% said that they receive e-invoices from suppliers (see<br />
Exhibit 3-16). On average among the 10 sectors, it is about 20% of firms (by<br />
employment) that send and receive e-invoices. Both for sending and for receiving e-<br />
invoices, the footwear industry is the one with the lowest adoption level out of all 10<br />
sectors surveyed in 2006.<br />
Exhibit 3-16: Adoption of e-invoicing: percentage of firms ...<br />
30<br />
25<br />
20<br />
15<br />
10<br />
5<br />
10<br />
12<br />
17<br />
13 12<br />
9<br />
6 7 8<br />
13<br />
14<br />
21<br />
18<br />
20<br />
18<br />
18 19<br />
22<br />
0<br />
Total<br />
<strong>Footwear</strong><br />
(EU-10)<br />
Micro (1-9<br />
empl.)<br />
Small (10-49<br />
empl.)<br />
Medium (50-<br />
249 empl.)<br />
Large (250+<br />
empl.)<br />
All 10<br />
sectors (EU-<br />
10)<br />
Send e-invoices to public sector Send e-invoices to private sector Receive e-invoices<br />
Base (100%): Companies with internet access. N (for sector, EU-10) = 719.<br />
Weighting: Totals (for the sector and for all 10 sectors) are weighted by employment and should be read as<br />
"enterprises comprising …% of employment in the sector(s)". Figures for size-bands are in % of enterprises<br />
from the size-band. Questionnaire reference: D5<br />
Source: e-Business W@tch (Survey 2006)<br />
When only looking at those companies that actually use e-invoicing, the average share<br />
of e-invoices (measured as % of a company's total invoices sent or received) is very<br />
similar to the average figure for the total of the 10 sectors. On average, users reported<br />
that about one in five invoices sent electronically is an e-invoice, and about one in 10<br />
invoices received (see Exhibit 3-17). The difference is plausible, as many of the smaller<br />
companies start with issuing and sending e-invoices; this can be done in a web-based<br />
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