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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 products for supply-chain and procurement processing. The combination with b-op delivers unique features and competitive advantages to our customers.

Individual digital trade ecosystems & data sovereignty

Currently, we are focusing on enabling customers to build their private business ecosystems, enabling even small and medium businesses to get a digital dividend without huge investment.

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.

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.

Advanced procurement & lifecycle management 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 brings guided buying to unprecendeted levels by allowing our customers to operate their own marketplaces fully independent and free of marketplace fees. 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.
coverage of category specific process ecosystems, which integrate with business processes before and after the core P2P processes. This allows out procurement solution to create more value than existing P2P tools and has given us market leadership in niches like personal equipment, medical digital procurement, ... .

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.

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-ZUGSEIL has specialized in software solutions for ensuring that people are always equipped with the goods they require at their job!
+Founded 25 years ago as a textile [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Customization mass customization] IT vendor, '''ZUGSEIL''' has evolved into a company developing and selling [[B-Op|b-op]] based products for supply-chain and procurement processing. The [[ZUGSEIL bases on B-Op|combination with b-op]] delivers unique features and competitive advantages to our customers.
-At a first glance this looks like a quite simple job and can be solved with a simple intra-organization employee shop. But this impression is deceptive! As these goods are often critical to operations or due to legal requirements, e.g. in personal protective equipment, it is essential to deeply integrate with suppliers along the supply chains. Especially personal equipment bears special product groups which bear variants and even customizable products (e.g. corporate wear). When thinking on full digitalization of your internal procurement you will probably end up with freely configurable products in the area of personal protective equipment (ppe) or medical supplies for individual employees. Also there are business process chains which need to be digitalized to deliver maximum value to our customers, like enforcement of entitlements on a per employee basis per activity or lifecycle-tracking for reuse or refurbishment cycles of equipment to reduce the ecological footprint of companies.
+==== Individual digital trade ecosystems & data sovereignty ====
+Currently, we are focusing on enabling customers to build their [[private business ecosystems]], enabling even small and medium businesses to get a digital dividend without huge investment.
-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 fully covered digitally. Although the first step on the path to full digitalization is proper handling of the [[Procurement System Types|Procure-To-Pay or Source-To-Pay Processes]], we have understood that the real value for our customers is to deliver a full digital integration of all business processes required in the entire lifecycle processes of all products relevant to our customer - and mostly important across company borders with the suppliers and customers. We are proud to say that we deliver exactly this purpose with our products being based on the [https://www.b-op.com 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.
+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|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!
-==Products ==
+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 [[B-Op|digital trade ecosystem]].
-The ZUGSEIL Supply Chain Solutions AG company based in Switzerland offers two brands '''ZUGSEIL''' and '''Advances Tradesphere Tools''' (ATST) which each serve a different client base.
-=== ZUGSEIL Brand ===
+==== Seamless digital integration along the supply chain ====
-The ZUGSEIL brand is the area from which we originate - the corporate wear industry. [[wikipedia:Workwear|Corporate wear]] comes with complex products and highly specific business processes, which bring a lot of special requirements on the customer side as well as on the supplier side. Exactly for catering these highly sophisticated business processes and even more variations of interaction we have developed two standard products, which can be onboarded through our website and free online training courses:
+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!
-* [[ZUGSEIL Equipment Shop]] - for the customer side, which has to equip their employees with corporate fashion or ppe
-* [[ZUGSEIL Fulfillment Cloud|ZUGSEIL Supplier Cloud]] - for the supplier side, which has to integrate with the customer side and deliver products and services to them.
-=== Advanced Tradesphere Tools (ATST) brand===
+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 [[B-Op polymorphic product model|polymorphic product model of the b-op]]. This delivers [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Customization mass customization] capabilities by design. The combination of [[ZUGSEIL CIRA|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.
-Although having started as specialty solutions for [[wikipedia:Workwear|corporate fashion]] and [[wikipedia:Personal_protective_equipment|personal protective equipment (ppe)]], we have learned that it is easier for our solutions which are built for solving complex procurement issues of our customers to solve simple procurement issues, rather than the other way around when using standard [[Procurement System Types|P2P or S2P solutions]]. As a result we have developed a more abstract and thus powerful implementation of our tools which can act as a full peer-to-peer procurement solution. It can be used for supply chain management for all types of products - and of course [[c parts]]. Therefore, the tools of ATST are ideal for all organizations which wants to drive their digital business process integration with all partners in their entire [[tradesphere]] ecosystem:
-<u>Comfort level products</u> (onboarding over a cloud solution possible, reduced complexity)
+Especially in the textile supply chain, we have proven that digital integration "From sheep to shop - and back" is possible.
-*[https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_Employee_Portal ATST Employee Portal] - a standardized tool for allowing internal ordering and procurement automation
-* [https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_Supplier_Cloud ATST Supplier Cloud] - a standardized tool for the supplier side, allowing hassle free onboarding and general tasks of suppliers
+==== Advanced procurement & lifecycle management tools ====
-*[https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_Analytics_Community ATST Analytics Community] - a community for reports available for all products
+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 brings guided buying to unprecendeted levels by allowing our customers to operate their own marketplaces fully independent <u>and</u> free of marketplace fees. In addition, we have invested into:
-Sport level products (advanced functionality, requires training)
-* [https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_Procurement_Suite ATST Procurement Suite] - a full procurement-suite which comes with many advanced functionality for supply chain management
+* a [[ZUGSEIL EMMA|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.
-* [https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_Supplier_Suite ATST Supplier Suite] - a full suite for handling most of the supplier tasks required for integration with the customers
+* coverage of category specific process ecosystems, which integrate with business processes before and after the core [[Procure-To-Pay|P2P processes]]. This allows out procurement solution to create more value than existing P2P tools and has given us market leadership in niches like personal equipment, medical digital procurement, ... .
-Performance level products (top notch functionality, project management and training required)
-* [https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_Confide ATST Confide] - an extension package for the supplier side bearing a full configuration product with solution space designers
-* [https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_B2B_Shop ATST B2B Shop] - an extension package for the supplier side bearing a standard b2b shop (for integration with enterprises which are not b-op based)
-*[https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_ERP ATST Supplier ERP] - a full ERP solution for the supplier-side (except book-keeping)
-* [https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/ATST_Customer_Relationship_Management_(CRM) ATST Customer Relationship Management (CRM)] - sales funnels, campaign management, sales automation, ...
 == How to read this wiki ==
-This wiki has the intention to deliver an integrated knowledge base to all steakholders 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 comunication between all these parties. You can read up in this article on the [[basic structure of 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 ==
+[[File:B-op Logo.png|alt=The b-op website|right|200x200px|[https://www.b-op.com The b-op website]]]
+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 [https://www.b-op.com 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 [[ZUGSEIL bases on B-Op|b-op Trade Sphere]] and [[ZUGSEIL Tools for the b-op employment sphere|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.
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