The BPCSSA is hosted by NHS Birmingham East and North and was founded in April 2002. The main purpose of creating a Shared Service Agency (SSA) was to focus on core non-clinical services.
Under the deal with Tradeshift, all BPCSSA suppliers can start submitting invoices electronically via the secure network. With built-in validation, suppliers will be automatically alerted to inaccuracies in each invoice, ensuring all documents are correctly formatted and reducing the risk of errors.
The Tradeshift network also provides a tracking service to give suppliers an overview of where the invoice is in the system, whether it has been accepted and when payment is due.
The Birmingham Primary Care Shared Service Agency will initially be bringing 2,500 suppliers onto the Tradeshift network in November 2011 and is working towards all 6,000 suppliers to be on board by March 2012.
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