Johnston Mooney & O'Brien (JMOB) is Ireland's oldest bakery founded in 1835. The head office and main bread plant is based in Finglas, Dublin. It is a medium sized company selling bread nationwide through 120 self-employed distributors. JMOB sell bread products to several ETB locations in Dublin and hope to expand to other ETB locations in the future. According to JMOB; "sending eInvoices to the ETBs has improved the accuracy and speed at which einvoices are received by the ETB personnel. Furthermore, with eInvoicing JMOB can potentially send eInvoices to over 800 ETB locations in the future." JMOB opted for the spreadsheet upload as their preferred method of sending their eInvoices directly using the ETB supplier portal which is accessed as a link on the etb onboarding website www.etbeinvoicing.ie.
Key Accounts personnel in JMOB are responsible for the creation of the weekly csv spreadsheets with all relevant information for upload to the ETB Supplier Portal which acts as an adapter that sends PEPPOL compliant eInvoices via the DCS Access Point to the ETB. JMOB were guided by the Education Shared Business Services (ESBS) and Document Centric Solutions Ltd on the formatting of the csv spreadsheet.
Overall the spreadsheet upload method of transferring eInvoices to the ETB proved to be a smooth transition. There were a number of test data uploads which ironed out any anomalies in the data. Once the spreadsheet data was formatted correctly, the upload was successful.
Uploading a spreadsheet using the ETB Supplier Portal is convenient for the Accounts staff in JMOB as they can upload at their preferred times and the eInvoices are delivered directly into the EIP system in the ETBs ready for export by ETB personnel to their ERP systems. JMOB continue to send weekly einvoices using the Supplier Portal and report no issues. They no longer send any paper invoices to the ETBs
