ZUGSEIL ACCELERATE

ZUGSEIL ACCELERATE is a set of digitization tools, which accelerate, simplify and automate procurement processes inside an organization.

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

• 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 spend - through a profound knowledge management system, 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.
• Based on B-Op Network - enabling plug&play and fully digitalized supply chain collaboration with your suppliers and service partners. It is coming with procure-to-pay and advanced guided buying functionality combined with digitalization of the full lifecycle of c-parts and assets - from distribution over maintenance to decomissioning. Most customers are currently using it for dgitalization of all processes of indirect procurement, which is responsible for the procurement of c-parts.

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

Target Audiences

All organizations which need to equip their employees in a structured way. ZUGSEIL products make sense for very small customers from 20 employees up to large companies with tens of thousands of employees.

Typical examples:

• 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

• Internal shopping - A simple and unified way for your staff members to define their 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
• 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 Integration - After ordering comes fulfillment
• Procure-To-Pay Automation - Support for the entire process chain from creating a purchase requisition over purchase order to a bill and payment.

Related articles

• ZUGSEIL bases on B-Op - the foundation for seamless digital collaboration
• ZUGSEIL Digital Fit (ZDF) - if equipment must be customized to the body of your staff members
• ZUGSEIL Lifecycle Management Tools (LCM) - if you must track your purchased items because it is valuable (assets), is sensitive (weapons) or is subject to regulations (like PPE)