Peppol (Pan-European Public Procurement Online) is a standardised e-invoicing network designed to enable seamless, cross-border electronic document exchange. In Singapore, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has led a national push for businesses to adopt Peppol to drive greater efficiency, reduce paper trails, and support compliance with digital government initiatives.
While Peppol adoption is increasing, especially among SMEs and larger enterprises working with government entities, many companies are discovering that Peppol alone doesn't fully solve their invoice management problems. A supplier invoice management system in Singapore needs to do more than support Peppol—it must handle the complexity and fragmentation that persists across finance teams.
There’s a common misconception that once a business connects to the Peppol network, invoice automation is complete. In reality, Peppol is just one part of the puzzle.
Despite the government’s digital push, most businesses still receive a mix of Peppol and non-Peppol invoices, from PDFs attached in emails to Excel files manually generated by vendors. This hybrid state creates significant challenges for accounts payable (AP) teams.
Staff must often track, approve, and reconcile invoices across multiple inboxes and systems, introducing delays and increasing the risk of human error. Compounding the problem, invoices frequently lack essential context such as project codes, cost centres, or internal notes, which makes validation tedious and slows down approvals.
Approval workflows are another pain point. Without a clear routing process, invoices may sit in limbo, awaiting action from an unclear or unavailable approver. These bottlenecks frustrate teams, strain vendor relationships, and prevent finance leaders from having a real-time view of overall spend.
At the heart of the problem is fragmentation. Finance teams today juggle:
This decentralised setup creates blind spots. Without a single source of truth that brings together both Peppol and non-Peppol invoices, finance teams lack full visibility into total business spend. This makes it difficult to get a clear understanding of true costs, track commitments accurately, and spot issues like overcharges, duplicate payments, or delayed invoices. The result? Missed savings and margin leakage.
When all invoice data is connected and visible in one place, it empowers teams to move beyond reactive firefighting. Instead, they can focus on higher-impact activities like cash flow optimisation, enforcing spend policies, and negotiating with vendors from a position of insight.
Summit offers a powerful solution to this fragmented environment by consolidating all invoices (Peppol and non-Peppol) into one centralised platform designed for modern finance teams.
With Summit, finance teams no longer need to choose between compliance and speed, since both are built into the workflow.
Summit is not a replacement for your Peppol tools. It’s a complementary layer that fills in the gaps and brings everything together.
Whether invoices arrive via a Peppol gateway, email attachment, direct upload, or accounting integration, Summit ingests the data and organises it into a consistent, review-ready format. This flexibility supports both centralised and decentralised finance teams, making it easy to adapt to any operational model.
Moreover, Summit integrates seamlessly with your ERP, procurement, and accounting systems, so you don’t have to rip and replace your current tools to gain control.
Peppol is a valuable step forward for e-invoicing, but it doesn’t solve the full spectrum of challenges finance teams face today. Fragmented systems, inconsistent data, and manual processes still dominate day-to-day invoice management.
With Summit, you gain more than compliance, you gain control. By unifying all invoice sources, automating workflows, and enforcing policies consistently, Summit transforms a chaotic process into a strategic advantage.
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