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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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-== The trade ecosystem ==
+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.
-In the last decades, companies were focused on process optimization with all existing new possibilities of IT. Vendors of goods tried to increase their sales employing new eCommerce tools, like internet shops. Customers tried to optimize their procurement processes.
-The touching point processes between these two natural sides of the trade ecosystem was always only seen from one perspective (sales or procurement). Depending on the customer-vendor relation the stronger side typically dictated how and if IT integration was possible and how it was implemented. Dominating technologies have been up up to now EDI, Shops & Punch-Out catalogs. All these technologies do integrate somehow. Biggerst downside are the low level of cross company process integration and the initally high and then continuous IT spending.
+==== 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.
-In the last years marketplaces have formed, which outsource the integration cost at the cost of data, which renders both parties (vendors and customers) to give aways business information to third parties, which generally is not desirable!
+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!
-== ZUGSEIL - Integrated eCommerce ==
+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]].
-[https://www.zugseil.com Our products] are the result of 25 years of research and customer driven innovation. Unlike other competitors we did not focus on the sales side nor on the procurement side, but built products trying to make both sides collaborate fully digitally. By employing the [https://www.b-op.com B-Op Technology] from 2016 on, products have grown to now offer seamless Plug&Play process digitalization between customers and vendors. This makes the usage of digital marketplaces and/or interface technologies obsolete and therefore means huge IT and HR savings potential to all of our customers.
-[[File:Trade Ecosystem Basic Proces.png|center|780x780px]]
-Our products offer all capabilities known by existing sales and procurement tools enhanced with one major USP – '''full digital integration''' at '''no extra cost'''. This core USP drives a couple of other USPs which are impossible with existing tools, like dynamic cross-company configurators, cross company personal equipment networks, service supply chains and many more use cases which require full digital integration between companies to function.
+==== 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!
-These unique selling prepositions unlock supply chain collaboration on an unprecedented level for our customers – the well known Source-To-Pay or Procure-To-Pay procesess are just small fragments of the entire trade ecosystem processing space. Our [[ZUGSEIL Procurement-Suite]] offers a totally new approach for procurement tools extending the solution scope with the requirements of the sales perspective into one standardized model. This approach, which we call Collaborative Supply Chain, allows every and each business partner to take their role in dynamically developing supply chains without facing huge investment in IT.
+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.
-== Roles in the Collaborative Supply Chain ==
+Especially in the textile supply chain, we have proven that digital integration "From sheep to shop - and back" is possible.
-The ''trade ecosystem'' as a whole has an unlimited number of players, which dynamically form ever adapting supply chains. This constant change process was so far a major challenge to IT coupled with major and constant IT spending. We offer two suites of products dedicated to enable the Collaborative Supply Chain and therefor taking away this pain from your and your partners' organizations!
-In essence this means that keeping up-to-date with your ever changing partner-network without the need for costly IT-Interface-projects! It just works "plug-and-play" and will save your organization from huge future invests by saving it from ever returning cross-company digitalization projects.
+==== 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 <u>and</u> free of marketplace fees. In addition, we have invested into:
-=== CUSTOMER Role ===
+* 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.
-The customer role delivers all tools to facilitate all kinds of Procurement processes. The ''customer role'' comes with essential packages like ZUGSEIL BEST procurement tools & automation, ZUGSEIL BEST warehousing management, amongst many more.
+* 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, ... .
-One of the game changers, which are delivered by the B-Op technology is that shops do no longer reside on the vendor side, but are now on the customer side which provides a couple of major benefits to the customer:
-# The customer has a unified shopping experience, no matter from which supplier goods are procured
-# All data of the shopping process is no longer shared or even in reach for the vendors and cannot be used by vendors to analyze the business or the behavior of the customer, unless the customer explicitly desires this.
-# The customer knows the most about what any why he wants to procure items. This knowledge is typically private and shall or even must not be shared with vendors. If the shop is now on the customer side, these information can be used to provide a superior shopping experience!
-You can [[ZUGSEIL Procurement-Suite|read up here for futher details]] on the tools and services of the [[ZUGSEIL Procurement-Suite]] product.
-=== VENDOR Role ===
-The vendor role delivers all tools to facilitate all kinds of sales and fulfillment processes. ''It comes'' with essential packages like the ZUGSEIL BEST Product Information Management, ZUGSEIL BEST Catalog Management, ZUGSEIL BEST Fulfillment which also includes the  ZUGSEIL BEST warehousing management, amongst many more.
-You can [[ZUGSEIL Supplier-Suite|read up here for futher details]] on the [[ZUGSEIL Supplier-Suite]] product.
-== ZUGSEIL Product Structure ==
-*
-Due to overwhelming demand we are currently facing in the market, ZUGSEIL has openend a seperate stream of products, which we can distribute as cloud-product to many customers. with standardized customizing processes
-Please [mailto:sales@zugeil.com contact us] for further information. As one of our major drivers in the last quarter of a century always was customer driven innovation, we will see if our standard product can solve your problem right out of the box or if your ideas may help us to increase our sultion space futher!
+== 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 ==
 [[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 [[Procurement System Types|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.
+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 [[The trade sphere|Trade Sphere]] and [[The Employment Sphere|Employment Sphere]]. Please click on the provided links to read up further details on how ZUGSEIL supports the business cases in these spheres.
+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.
-== 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]].
-Depending on your role with ZUGSEIL these pages may provide fast access to the desired content: [[Dev:Projects Main Page|Project Manager Area]], [[Dev:Main Page|Developers Area]]
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