ZUGSEIL Procurement Tools

Every B-Op Digital which is acquiring products from other B-Op Digitals and/or is distributing products within its organizations naturally takes the customer role.

For this role, ZUGSEIL has developed his product ZUGSEIL BEST Customer. This package offers a complete set of tools allowing customers manage their entire supply chain ecosystem and digitally perform all necessesary interactions required with their staff and supplying businesspartners.

The main functionaliy blocks are related to procurement, warehouse management and internal fulfillment. Many customers also decide to add our extension packages personal equipment management or procurement support system.

Procurement Functionality

Most important building blocks of successful procurement are identification of the best suppliers and making the right procurement decisions on a daily base. This sounds easy - but it is not. ZUGSEIL BEST Customer supports you with both of these tasks.

Source to contract

With supplier relationship management each organization aims for oprimizing its personal ecosystem in the trade sphere by identifying potential suppliers and manage the relation with them. No IT system can currently find you the best suppliers but just support you by precompiling a list of possible suppliers. So this core task stays with your strategic buying team!

After the identification of the right supplier so far always has been the starting point of a cumbersome and costly (IT) integration-process. The further you wanted to digitally integrate the more effort you had to invest - time and moneywise.

This is where ZUGSEIL shines and offers unique functionality. Full digital integration comes with just a couple of clicks. Through the B-Op yellow pages you can just identify suppliers and get introduced. Ones this has been done, you define with your partner your mutual level of trust - and that is it. All relevant information is exchanged in the backgroud automatically. You are ready to go to negotiate and create your contracts digitally: Our ZUGSEIL BEST enterprise contract management (ECM) offers full digitalization of all Source-To-Contract (S2C) processes from initial contact to the signed contract, its execution and retirement.

Procurement Tools and Supply Chain Automation

• Intra-org procurement processes through our ZUGSEIL BEST Shop

• Digitalizaton and automation of all processes of the Procure-To-Pay (P2P) process chain.

• Supply Chain Automation (SCA/AI) delivers massive value to our customers by allowing our customers to route purchase requisitiions fully automated to the optimal supplier. This can wither be by a static ruleset, which may be combined with individual decisions of purchasing officers, which can be used to train an artificial intelligence to in the future propose ever better processing proposales making the life of procurement officers easier.
• Once the order is placed, our Supply Chain Monitoring tools allow our customer to track the entire fulfillment process until the goods have arrived. The B-Op Technology allows real-time tracking even in multi-level supply chains. This allows quick reaction on supply chain disturbances.

Warehouse Management

Automation and digitalization of these procurement processes deliver value to our customers. Once the order is placed, the fulfillment process should be tracked until the goods have arrived. The B-Op Technology allows real-time tracking even in multi-level supply chain. This allows quick reaction on supply chain disturbances. Once the goods have arrived, ZUGSEIL BEST Warehouse Management System (WMS) ensures that goods are accepted and stored. It comes with many

product lifecycle inside our customer's organization. ZUGSEIL BEST comes with a comprehensive toolset of digitalization of all the proceses after procurement:

• ZUGSEIL BEST product lifecycle management (PLM)
• Quality and Returns management are a major effort for any organization, especially as these processes are very communication intensive with the suppliers. ZUGSEIL BEST quality and returns management (QRM) takes care of digitalization and automation not only of the internal processes, but also of a fully digitalized supplier communication the Return-To-Refund Process even over multi-level supply chains.
  

Internal Fulfillment

Intra-org fulfillment proceses through our ZUGSEIL BEST Warehouse Management System

digitalization processes on a new level, ZUGSEIL BEST Customer does not stop at this level.

internal process chains of sservice bundle is covering all standard procurement processes chains like Procure-To-Pay (P2P) or Source-To-Pay (S2P). Besides covering this standard functionality, The ZUGSEIL BEST Customer product offers functionality way beyond these basic procurement processes, which allow to make more precise procurement decisions and help your stuff to save massive time with their daily procurement activies.

Extension Bundles

Extension bundles are typically not required, but can be booked as extension packages when required

ZUGSEIL BEST Personal Equipment Management (PEM)

Personal Equipment Management supports our customers to organize the processes of taking care of their employees being well equipped for their job. There are many reasons, why organizing these processes is essential for most organizations.

You can read up here on what PEM is and who it can be useful for.

ZUGSEIL BEST procurement support system (PSS)

Large procurement organizations come along with the challenge for regular employess to find the correct procurment unit/office for the procurement of a specific good. The procurement support system (PSS) helps any organization member to easily identify easily the correct procurment path, details and the appropriate contact persons driven by classification data created in PIM and AI based learning. This saves the regular employees and the procurement officers an ever growing fraction of the time used up by mislead procurement requests.

You can read up here on what PSS is and who it can be useful for.

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