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Founded 25 years ago as a textile mass customization IT vendor, ZUGSEIL has evolved into a company developing and selling b-op based trade sphere digitalization tools, delivering unique features and competitive advantages to our customers.

Advanced procurement tools

Based on B-Op each of our customers have own marketplace, to which they can integrate their all their internal and external partners with b-op plug & play. This saves massive amounts of money as compared to the offerings of our competitors which operate their own marketplaces and allow their customers just to participante in them.

In addition, we have invested into a sophisticated set of guided buying tools, which optimize internal procurement processes. They allow our customers to increase the efficiency of internal procurement processes dramatically by reducing maverick buying and reducing time invest per order.

Seamless digital integration along the supply chain

With ZUGSEIL products, our customers are empowered to seamlessly integrate digitally with their partners along the entire value chain, boosting their productivity on all levels!

Our tools are providing a completely new approach to digititalization for B2B and B2C relations. This provides unique advantages to our customers: Interface projects are only required, if the b-op system needs to integrate or are used to augment legacy systems. ZUGSEIL standard software packages support most sophisticated product types due to the polymorphic product model of the b-op. This delivers mass customization capabilities by design. The combination of lifecycle management and collaborative supply chain management capabilites creates a toolset for our customers to augment their increased activity in addressing environmental challenges with elements of the circular economy.

Especially in the textile supply chain, we have proven that digital integration "From sheep to shop - and back" is possible.

Individual digital trade ecosystems

Currently, we are focusing on enabling customers to build their individual free digital ecosystems, enabling even small and medium businesses to get a digital dividend without huge investment accross any product categories.

Once a customer has created its own digital ecosystem, he can use ZUGSEIL tools to easily establish business processes integration accross company borders, without any dependency on central services operated by us. b-op is a peer to peer network technology, which does no longer require central service nodes or interfaces to be built between the peers. This means for our customers less cost and less dependency on software companies or data brokers. Transaction costs reduce to zero!

Since we operate on a distributed system, it made no sense for ZUGSEIL to operate a central marketplace as many of our ERP competitors do. Instead, we allow our customers with our products to easily build their own ecosystems including their own marketplaces with very little effort wherever they want on the internet. In this way, they can keep data sovereignty and invite only partners on the customer or suppliers side to participate in their individual digital trade ecosystem.

Product-Levels

ZUGSEIL has three levels of products:

• Comfort level products (turquoise), which are prebundled and are sold as cloud-service to our customers. The complexity of these products is optimized to work with minimal or no training. In the case that support is required, knowledge can be acquired through the internet.
• Sport level products (green), which provide unrestricted flexibility with all features of our standard products. Using these products typically goes along with training and regular support which are provided by our project partner companies.
• Racing level products (yellow), which mean that the customer wants to go to the edges of our product (and beyond). We depend on customers in this mode, as customer-driven innovation was always the key to our success. Running projects in this mode is always associated with direct collaboration with us and one of our project partners.

Please contact us for further information.

How to read this wiki

This wiki has the intention to deliver an integrated knowledge base to all stakeholders in the b-op tradesphere on the customer as well as our side. Ranging from the users on the client side, sales consultants and implementing project managers from a project partner company to the developers on our own team. We believe that this holistic approach can help for better communication between all these parties. You can read up in this article on the basic structure of this wiki.

b-op

Over the last 25 years ZUGSEIL has been looking into various product groups and tried to understand the specifics of these, because we have learned early that the full digital dividend will only happen to our customers, when all processes are entirely covered and the interacting parties communicate digitally. Most vendors believe that proper handling of the Procure-To-Pay or Source-To-Pay Processes do the trick, but the real value for our customers requires the entire fulfillment and lifecycle processes of all products to be implemented. With old fashioned systems this takes tons of interfaces, which is very expensive. Most standard-interface-systems like EDI are not even close to being capable of achieving this. So we are very proud to say that we deliver exactly this value with our products being based on the B-Op technology, enabling our customers to fully integrate their processes with all partners in your companies unique ecosystem without huge IT investments to be made.

ZUGSEIL builds products which serve customers active in the b-op Trade Sphere and b-op Employment Sphere. Please click on the provided links to read up further details on how ZUGSEIL supports the business cases in these spheres.