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ZUGSEIL - Plug&Play for Supply Chains

In the last decades, companies were focused on enhancing internal processes with the possibilities of IT. Vendors of goods tried to increase their sales using new tools of the internet mostly by creating eCommerce tools. 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 realized. Dominating technologies up to now are EDI, Punch-Out-Catalogs and internet shops. All these technologies  do integrate somehow, but deliver suboptimal integration on both sides with high continuous IT or operation cost on both sides. 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!

By employing B-Op technology, ZUGSEIL offers a disruptive new technology to the trade ecosystem. It allows all its users to connect seamlessly and exchange real time information peer to peer. It provides all benefits of a marketplace without its cost: giving transaction data and/or transaction-based spending with to third parties operating these marketplaces.

ZUGSEIL - Enabling the Collaborative Supply Chain

Our Product, ZUGSEIL BEST, is the result of 25 years of research and customer driven innovation. It offers all capabilities known by existing sales and procurement tools enhanced with one major USP – full peer-to-peer digital integration. 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.

These unique selling prepositions unlock supply chain collaboration on an unprecedented level for our customers – Source-To-Pay or Procure-To-Pay are very limited approaches driven by the procuring side of the trade ecosystem. ZUGSEIL BEST 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.

Roles in the collaborative Supply Chain

The trade ecosystem as a whole has an unlimited number of players, which dynamically form ever adapting supply chains. These dynamic supply chains form depending on the businesses occasions arising withing the individual ecosystems of the participants of the B-Op Network. ZUGSEIL BEST is dedicated to enable the Collaborative Supply Chain for you and your partners!

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.

For being able to deliver best benefits to the entire supply chain, ZUGSEIL BEST has to support different Roles in your entire trade ecosystem, which can be active at the same time.

CUSTOMER Role

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.

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 benefts to the customer:

1. The customer has a unified shopping experience, no matter from which supplier goods are procured
2. All data of the shopping process is no longer shared or even in reach for the vendors and cannot be used by vendors to analyse the business or the behavior of the customer, unless the customer explicitly desires this.
3. The customer knows the most about what any why he wants to procure items. This knowledge is typcally 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 read up here for futher details.

VENDOR Role

The vendor role delivers all tools to facilitate all kinds of Sales processes. The vendor role comes with essential packages like the ZUGSEIL BEST Product Information Management, ZUGSEIL BEST Catalog Managment, ZUGSEIL BEST Fulfillment which also includes the ZUGSEIL BEST warehousing management, amongst many more. You can read up here for futher details.

ZUGSEIL Custom Solutions

Due to huge demand we are currently facing in the market, ZUGSEIL focuses on increasing the quality of its standard products. For implementing larger scale setups and scenarios where consulting and training can not be catered with our online resources we have a set of partner consultancies, which implement and customize ZUGSEIL for these customers. Please 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!

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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 Trade Sphere and 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 comunication 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: Project Manager Area, Developers Area