Zen E-Orders, the Cloud platform for managing sales orders received from the PA via NSO and the PEPPOL network

The Nodo Smistamento Ordini (NSO) isthe system for the validation and transmission of electronic documents certifying the ordering and execution of purchases of goods and services from the public administration”, according to the definition of the MEF, Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Il Nodo Smistamento Ordini gestisce in via telematica:

• the exchange of all purchase orders for goods and services of entities of the National Health Service
• execution documents, such as delivery notes (DN).

The NSO also verifies that the documents transmitted are correctly set up and that they contain all the information necessary for their subsequent use in the billing and payment phases.
From 1 February 2020 for all entities of the National Health Service has becomemandatorythesending purchase orders relating to goods, such as medicines or medical devices, via the Order Sorting Node.
The obligation to place an electronic order via NSO is manifested for the following subjects:

• Public Administration or National Health Service Bodies who purchase goods and/or services;
• Intermediaries, i.e. those who make purchases on behalf of the National Health System
• Suppliersof the entities of the National Health Service

The PEPPOL network (Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line) was born in 2008 with the aim of facilitating e-procurement processes.
In fact, joining this network allows you to manage all the documents of the purchasing cycle (Order, Transport Documents and Invoice) using the same format and transport infrastructure between customer and supplier both nationally, European and internationally.

The PEPPOL network offers a safe and standardized environment to facilitate the commercialelectronic document exchanges among organizations in Europe, improving efficiency, transparency and access to the public market.

To sign up on the Peppol network, you need to choose a PEPPOL intermediary, i.e. an Access Point that will act as an intermediary with the Access Points of the other members of the PEPPOL network with whom you intend to exchange documents.
Any organization through a PEPPOL certified service provider can operate on the PEPPOL network.
An intermediary with the qualification of Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) can enable receipt of business documents by end users.

The supplierSMP, PEPPOL certified, registersthe participants on the PEPPOL network by assigning them aunique PEPPOL IDe associando a ciascuno di essi le tipologie di documento in grado di ricevere.
The PEPPOL network is based on theXML standard (Extensible Markup Language) and allows the standardization of commercial document formats and facilitates the exchange of information between the parties involved.

According to MEF numbers, in 2022 8.5 million electronic ordershave been processedwith an increase of +17% compared to 2021 with an average of 33,000 daily orders. Compared to the orders received and accepted, the 91% falls under the transmission scenario and only 9% in the validation scenario, chosen mainly by the Emilia-Romagna region, which has already been using the PEPPOL network for several years to exchange all the documents of the order cycle within the Regional Health Service.