Difference between revisions of "ZUGSEIL MERCATA"

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ZUGSEIL MERCATA delivers advanced catalog collaboration tools. This enables its users to get the max from the b-op tradesphere.

Advanced catalog collaboration

Catalogs have been the main tool for sharing knowledge on products between business partners for centuries. b-op also continues this tradition and uses digital catalogs as well. Difference to other players in the P2P or S2P markets, they are used for direct data exchange between market players in a point-to-point manner instead of notifying a central platform, which then distributes the product information.

Supplier side

On the supplier side, ZUGSEIL SCALE already comes with basic catalog definition and distribution functionality for truely digital collaboration with your customers. ZUGSEIL MERCATA extends this with these additional functionality

Catalog design (curation)

The catalog designer app is extended with capability for:

processing of collaboration and co-creation with customers on product information quality (e.g. trhough product description improvement requests)
enabling of solution spaces for design products (e.g. made-to-measure products)
enabling the incorporatíon of entire catalogs of sub-suppliers. Support for manipulation rules applicable to all products of this incorporated catalog, e.g. margin adding (e.g. +5%)

Catalog distribution

The catalog distribution manager app is extended with capability for:

enabling automatic catalog publishing on specific product changes
enabling the catalog subscriber monitoring, which delivers revenue statistics and more business information per subscribed customer.

Client side

Catalog subscription

For using products of 3rd parties, each digital can subscribe to catalogs of these parties. The catalog subscription process is mainly facilitated by the catalog subscription manager app. It allows the subscription to 3rd party catalogs and management of the subscriptions. Catalogs and used products can imported to the local digital and then can be kept up-to-date. Changes of products, structure, prices can be monitored in this app during the process of updating.

Classification management

Classifications are the central tool for efficient procurement proceeses and procurement controlling and is required at all parties of the commerce trade sphere: Suppliers fill in category speific data on their products, which customers use for finding these products rapidly. TALOGA brings

easy access to products through multiple category trees - specifically designable to the needs of specific user contexts.
easy integration of partner product offerings - mapping patner's classification trees to local trees allows the automatic sorting in of new products after being accepted.
distributed category management - allowing the whole procurement organization to collaborate on category structures, but still stay in control of a centrally curating authority
reporting

Member apps availability

ZUGSEIL MERCATA enables the full functionality required for procurement communities or trade business models

	ACCELERATE	SCALE
App:Article management	Yes	Yes
App:Product management	Yes	Yes
App:Catalog designer	Yes	Yes	The main tool for creation, editing and managing own catalogs
App:Catalog subscription manager	Yes	Yes	The main tool for managing the usage and incorporation of products of 3rd party catalogs
App:Catalog distribution manager	Yes	Yes	The main tool for managing customer subscriptions to own catalogs

B-Op Catalog integration with legacy P2P software

Since 2016 as b-op trade sphere was defined, all business participants can have their own b-op digital and can be fully and digitally integrated at no extra cost.

But the Procure-To-Pay (P2P) process chain has been around way before 2016 and has been target for digitalization for long time. As a result of this legacy software exists for this process chain, each with a lot of customers which can not just switch to a b-op based system at once, but must ways to at least partially use the benefits instead before a migration project can start.

The ZUGSEIL P2P Hub allows the integration with 3rd party Procure-To-Pay plattforms, like SAP Ariba amongst others. This also enables the:

export of b-op catalog revisions to a 3rd party formats (like CIF or cXML)
import of CIF or cXML catalogs into a new digital's catalog revision (if any changes occured)

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-'''Catalogs''' have been the main tool for sharing knowledge on products between business partners for centuries. b-op also continues this tradition and uses digital catalogs as well. The b-op trade sphere offers powerful functionality of creation, maintenance and sharing of catalogs. For partners, which have their b-op digital, catalogs can be published and used seamlessly.
+'''ZUGSEIL''' '''MERCATA''' delivers advanced catalog collaboration tools. This enables its users to get the max from the [[B-Op|b-op tradesphere]].
-ZUGSEIL has built a powerful UI to make our customer get the max from this core b-op tradesphere feature.
+== Advanced catalog collaboration ==
+'''Catalogs''' have been the main tool for sharing knowledge on products between business partners for centuries. b-op also continues this tradition and uses digital catalogs as well. Difference to other players in the P2P or S2P markets, they are used for direct data exchange between market players in a point-to-point manner instead of notifying a central platform, which then distributes the product information.
-== Core functionality ==
+=== Supplier side ===
+On the supplier side, [[ZUGSEIL SCALE]] already comes with basic catalog definition and distribution functionality for truely digital collaboration with your customers. [[ZUGSEIL MERCATA]] extends this with these additional functionality
-===== Catalog definition =====
+====== Catalog design (curation) ======
-Before a catalog can be exported, it must be defined. Catalog definition spans a wide variety of information
+The [[App:Catalog designer|catalog designer app]] is extended with capability for:
-* '''definition of base data''' - catalog name, validity period, publishing pricelist and currency. Who has the permissions to edit this catalog?
+* processing of collaboration and co-creation with customers on product information quality (e.g. trhough product description improvement requests)
-*'''define general catalog state''' - Is the catalog served to partners? Is it discontinued?
+* enabling of solution spaces for design products (e.g. made-to-measure products)
-* '''definition of target audience''' - for which business participants will this catalog be available?
+* enabling the incorporatíon of entire catalogs of sub-suppliers. Support for manipulation rules applicable to all products of this incorporated catalog, e.g. margin adding (e.g. +5%)
-* '''definition of contained products'''
-** '''individual products''' - define design products or products and variants and customizations published with this catalog
-** '''sub-catalogs''' - name catalogs recursively, of which all products will be incorporate into this catalog
-* '''definition of contained categories'''  - which categories are distributed with this catalog and which category maps?
-*'''catalog publishing state and versioning''' - catalogs can be edited at any time. Still, only catalog revisions can be shared with customers. For this, users may perform a revision freeze, which creates a legal document, which is stored with all contained data as catalog file in the document management system. This file is shared over the b-op network. Catalog publishing states are:
-**created - The catalog is created
-**changed - The catalog has been modified since its last version-freeze. Changes exist.
-**published - The catalog has been published and no changes have occured since the last publish
-*'''definition of revisioning triggers''' - once changes have occured, will this catalog be frozen regularly through events or only manually? Triggers can be:
-**time interval
-**predefined timepoint(s) [daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly]
-**after a contained sub-catalog revisioning occured at an own catalog
-**after a partner sub-catalog revision was accepted
-===== Catalog subscriber management =====
+====== Catalog distribution ======
-This app is used for monitoring of the catalog distribution and subscriptions of other digitals.
+The [[App:Catalog distribution manager|catalog distribution manager app]] is extended with capability for:
-*
-*'''show subscriber info''' - which business participant have subscribed to this catalog? Which version does the partner currently use (publishing date)? Has the partner accepted, subjected or has not reacted to the current version of the catalog.
-*'''invite digitals to use this catalog''' - use the yellow pages service to link to b-op digitals and propose the subscription of this catalog
-===== Catalog usage management =====
+* enabling automatic catalog publishing on specific product changes
-This app is used to see the catalogs by other digitals currently used by the local digital
+* enabling the catalog subscriber monitoring, which delivers revenue statistics and more business information per subscribed customer.
-* show which catalogs from which digitals are currently used
+=== Client side ===
-* show available revisions and trigger download (if not downloaded yet)
-* show available revision updates and display changes to the currently active revision and financial impact
+====== Catalog subscription ======
-* enable auto-download and auto-adoption of new catalog revisions
+For using products of 3rd parties, each digital can subscribe to catalogs of these parties. The '''catalog subscription process''' is mainly facilitated by the [[App:Catalog subscription manager|catalog subscription manager]] app. It allows the subscription to 3rd party catalogs and management of the subscriptions. Catalogs and used products can imported to the local digital and then can be kept up-to-date. Changes of products, structure, prices can be monitored in this app during the process of updating.
-* accept and upgrade to new revision after checking the changes
-* reject new revision upgrade and provide reasons to catalog publishing party
+====== Classification management ======
+Classifications are the central tool for efficient procurement proceeses and procurement controlling and is required at all parties of the commerce trade sphere: Suppliers fill in category speific data on their products, which customers use for finding these products rapidly. TALOGA brings
+* easy access to  products through multiple category trees - specifically designable to the needs of specific user contexts.
+* easy integration of partner product offerings - mapping patner's classification trees to local trees allows the automatic sorting in of new products after being accepted.
+* distributed category management - allowing the whole procurement organization to collaborate on category structures, but still stay in control of a centrally curating authority
+* reporting
+== Member apps availability ==
+[[ZUGSEIL MERCATA]] enables the full functionality required for procurement communities or trade business models
+{| class="wikitable"
+!
+!ACCELERATE
+!SCALE
+!
+|-
+|[[App:Article management]]
+|Yes
+|Yes
+|
+|-
+|[[App:Product management]]
+|Yes
+|Yes
+|
+|-
+|[[App:Catalog designer]]
+|Yes
+|Yes
+|The main tool for creation, editing and managing own catalogs
+|-
+|[[App:Catalog subscription manager]]
+|Yes
+|Yes
+|The main tool for managing the usage and incorporation of products of 3rd party catalogs
+|-
+|[[App:Catalog distribution manager]]
+|Yes
+|Yes
+|The main tool for managing customer subscriptions to own catalogs
+|}
 == B-Op Catalog integration with legacy P2P software ==
-Since 2016 as b-op tradesphere was defined, all business participants can have their own [https://www.b-op.com/ b-op digital] and are fully and digitally integrated at no cost.
+Since 2016 as b-op trade sphere was defined, all business participants can have their own [https://www.b-op.com/ b-op digital] and can be fully and digitally integrated at no extra cost.
 But the Procure-To-Pay (P2P) process chain has been around way before 2016 and has been target for digitalization for long time. As a result of this legacy software exists for this process chain, each with a lot of customers which can not just switch to a b-op based system at once, but must ways to at least partially use the benefits instead before a migration project can start.
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 * export of b-op catalog revisions to a 3rd party formats (like CIF or cXML)
-* import of CIF or cXML catalogs into a digital's catalog revision
+* import of CIF or cXML catalogs into a new digital's catalog revision (if any changes occured)
 == Related articles ==
-* [[App:Catalog Import Manager (CIM)]] - The main tool to create and maintain catalogs.
+* [[B-Op Yellow-Pages]] - The main tool for connecting and automated digital connection in trade networks
-*[[App:Customer Catalog Manager (CCM)|Customer Catalog Manager (CCM)]]- The main tool for creating, maintaining and publishing catalogs to customers
+* [[ZUGSEIL P2P Hub]] - offers automation tools for catalogs and other Procure-To-Pay (P2P) objects.
-*[[B-Op Yellow-Pages]] - The main tool for connecting and automated digital connection in trade networks
+*[[ZUGSEIL bases on B-Op]] - the foundation for seamless digital collaboration
-*[[ZUGSEIL P2P Hub]] - offers automation tools for catalogs and other Procure-To-Pay (P2P) objects.
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