OB10 has been awarded a Green Apple Award for its environmental best practice, global e-Invoicing solution that simplifies and streamlines the invoice-to-pay process

OB10 eliminates the need to send, process and store paper invoices, therefore enabling it's customers to save valuable resources. The award, which received over 400 entrants this year, is  run by the Green Organisation, an independent non-profit, non-political group supported by the Environment Agency and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, was presented at The Houses of Parliament by guest of honour botanist, and environmentalist David Bellamy.  

Green Apple Awards are presented to Companies that have recognised the benefits that can  be gained from environmental best practice, and also realise the business benefits of being green.  The e-Invoicing solution that OB10's customer, DSG International plc (DSGi, formerly known as Dixons) implemented, offered a clear example to judges of environmental best practice.  By using OB10's electronic invoicing solution, DSGi has already replaced more than 100,000 paper invoices, approximately 300,000 sheets of paper (if you include the envelope they are sent in).  Many other companies worldwide - including HP, GM, Kellogg's, Sara Lee and organisations in the UK Public Sector - have also adopted OB10's solution to save valuable environmental resources, improve on their corporate responsibility mandates, but also gain business benefits by improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs.

"We are delighted to receive this award from the Green organisation and it's excellent to see the 'green' aspects of e-Invoicing being recognised by more than just our customers, said Stefan Foryszewski, Co-Founder and VP Corporate Sales, OB10.  "We are clearly very proud of this and hope that the unnecessary use of paper to send invoices will continue to decline and be replaced by more environmentally friendly alternatives.

In the last year alone, OB10 has electronically processed enough transactions across its global network to save its customers sending the equivalent of 8.43 million sheets of paper, which would weigh almost 59 tons. Using standard industry calculations, that saving represents over 1,000 trees which have been spared.