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.
-== Supported core processes ==
+=== 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 any business between parties can start, the '''catalog definition process''' has to be triggered, which is facilitated by the [[App:Catalog manager|catalog manager app]]. In this process the owner of a b-op digital defines and shapes an offering which it wants to post to the digitals of its business partners. In this process the contents, the audience and the validity can are defined. The catalog is freely editable at any time. The owner of the b-op digital can share that current state of the catalog with his peers by creating an immutable revision and setting its state to published. This makes the catalog revision available to the target audience and will immediately inform all existing subscribers of this catalog, that a new revision is available.
+The [[App:Catalog designer|catalog designer app]] is extended with capability for:
-====== Catalog subscriber management ======
+* processing of collaboration and co-creation with customers on product information quality (e.g. trhough product description improvement requests)
-Once a catalog is published, the subscriber management process is triggered, which is facilitatet by the catalog subscription manager app.  it is essential to understand which partners are using your catalog and how much revenue has been made over these catalogs per partner.
+* 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 usage management ======
+====== Catalog distribution ======
-This app is used to see the catalogs by other digitals currently used by the local digital
+The [[App:Catalog distribution manager|catalog distribution manager app]] is extended with capability for:
-* show which catalogs from which digitals are currently used
+* enabling automatic catalog publishing on specific product changes
-* show available revisions and trigger download (if not downloaded yet)
+* enabling the catalog subscriber monitoring, which delivers revenue statistics and more business information per subscribed customer.
-* show available revision updates and display changes to the currently active revision and financial impact
-* enable auto-download and auto-adoption of new catalog revisions
-* accept and upgrade to new revision after checking the changes
-* reject new revision upgrade and provide reasons to catalog publishing party
-== Member apps and services ==
+=== Client side ===
-* [[App:Catalog manager]] - The main tool for creation, editing and managing catalogs created by the local digital.
+====== Catalog subscription ======
-*[[App:Catalog subscription manager]] - The main tool for managing catalog subscriptions.
+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.
+====== 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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 * 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.
+__NOTOC__