ZUGSEIL ACCELERATE

ZUGSEIL ACCELERATE offers a set of digital procurement tools which accelerate, simplify and automates procurement processes inside an organization or individuals.

Benefits

Core benefits for personal and business users are:

• easy to use - an internal shop, in which users file their demand in a homogeneous and standardized way.
• data ownership & perfect privacy - data stays in your realm - and are not shared with any external third party - including ZUGSEIL, if you operate your own realm. You only receive catalogs from suppliers and send out purchase orders. All other data by default stays with you.
• independence - shop users neither have to learn for each supplier a different shop logic nor are they limited by availability and compatibility of supplier punch-out catalogs or generally it system availability.

Benefits especially for our business users

It is the base product for customers which want to digitalize their procurement organization and processes. It enables these competitive advantages:

• Advanced guided buying - the internal shop simplifies product selection to your users massively. They see only products which are cleared for them by your centrally managed procurement governance taking into account the staff member data
• Procurement automation - a centrally managed procurement governance framework defines where goods are procured, also enabling multi-vendor strategies
• Category specific workflows - specific categories require tailored workflows
• Personal equipment management - when ordering equipment, the human aspect needs special features: body data management, size recognition & keeping, made-2-measure products, ... all this is well integrated into the standard shop
• Increasing team productivity - Product selection process can facilitate information from within the organization, without sharing it with a 3rd party. This enables levels of guided buying, which are unreachable by external procurement platforms.
• Reducing maverick buying - through the procurement governance framework, which takes information from procurement and operations, we are able to remove (!) maverick buying
• Enabling procurement automation - once staff member has delivered its requirements through the Shop UI, we have a procurement automation engine through with procurement can setup automatic procurement paths, which again take into account organizational information where to order.
• Integrating circular economy principles - helps reduce costs, minimize waste, and build more resilient, sustainable supply chains.
• Plug&Play - fully digitalized real time supply-chain information exchange with your suppliers and service partners. (not just "PDF instead of Paper" digitalization)
• Enabling Cross-Company Process digitalization with total absence of transaction costs - with existing systems do only take care of internal processes and require additional costly collaboration techologies (money & data) to interface with other companies. ZUGSEIL has b-op providing a couple of competitive advantages in many areas:
  • catalog collaboration and delivery - optimize product offerings with many cross-identity processes
  • no transaction costs - procure-to-pay functionality combined
  • cross company full lifecycle tracking of products and assets (e.g. laundry processes, tools, ... )
  • high level of bookkeeping automation - automated invoice checks and validation
• Integration - ACCELERATE integrates easily with existing S2P- and P2P platforms.

Please read up this article for the benefits ACCELERATE can deliver to your organization.

Target Audience

ZUGSEIL products make sense for very small up to very large companies. which want to digitalize procurement and also digitally integrate with their suppliers. Especially organizations, which need to equip their employees in a structured way or require configurable products find category specific management solutions with ZUGSEIL.

Typical examples for suche niche companies:

• Public Transportation companies (Example customers: Swiss Railway, Rhätische Bahn, Zentralbahn, ... )
• Aviation companies (Example customers: Lufthansa Group, SWISS Airlines, AUSTRIAN Airlines, ...)
• Retail companies (Example customers: MIGROS, ... )
• Healthcare Organizations (Example customers: IROC, YOUSEEZUERI, ... )
• Production Companies (Examples: Volkswagen, ... )
• Construction Companies (Examples: Implenia, ... )
• Security companies (Examples: Lübecker Wachunternehmen, ... )
• Police, Fire and Rescue companies (Examples: Feuerwehr Wuppertal, Kantonspolizei Luzern, ...)

Areas of usage

• Forming & Leveraging Commerce Ecosystems - Full digitalization of already existing commerce ecosystems, maximizing their benefits to all partners
• Internal shopping - A simple and unified way for your staff to define demand
• Personal Equipment Management - If your staff has expensive equipment you want to manage
• Operation of staff service centers - If you offer one or multiple service centers for your staff members and human body related services
• Advanced guided buying tools & Ordering assistants - When many suppliers or products are available a sophisticated toolset to save time and avoid maverick spending is becoming essential
• Supply Chain Information Exchange - Informationa diBefore odering (discovery and after ordering comes fulfillment

Member apps availability

	ACCELERATE	SCALE
ZUGSEIL Shop	✅	MERCATA	Internal shopping solution for staff members
App:Article management	✅	✅
App:Product management	✅	✅
App:Catalog designer	✅	✅	The main tool for creation, editing and managing own catalogs
App:Catalog subscription manager	✅	No	The main tool for managing the usage and incorporation of products of 3rd party catalogs
App:Catalog distribution manager	No	✅	The main tool for managing customer subscriptions to own catalogs

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