ZUGSEIL Supply Chain Network (ZSCN)
Driver for many of the unique selling prepositions is our ZUGSEIL's Supply Chain Network, which bases on the b-op technology. It allows ZUGSEIL users free information exchange with no interfacing projects and decentral data storage.
Core features
In combination with any ZUGSEIL product this allows:
- creation of individual partner ecosystems with plug&play
- create of supply chains of unlimited depth
- unique privacy protection options by allowing physical decentralization
- Finegrained supply chain information control - each player in the supply chains may individually define which information should be shared with upstream partners or downstream partners
- total absence of transaction fees
- cross company business process communication with no interface projects
- build your own marketplaces or purchasing communities with the partners of your individial business ecosystems
- higher productivity through digital collaboration
- massive savings potential - no further cross company communication tools are required (like EDI, P2P-Networks, Supply-Chain-Integration, Marketplaces, ... )
Collaborative supply chain
Supply chain collaboration means that companies can work together as if they were one although they operate fully independent.
ZUGSEIL's collaborative supply chain network delivers a couple of valuable options to upstream (suppliers) and downstream partners (customers):
- bidirectional supply chain base data exchange - Digital delivery options transmission and multi-level category management tools
- downstream catalog transmission - Sharing catalogs downstream is essential for any action in the trade sphere
- downstream availability information - automated information of upstream parties (suppliers) to downstream parties (customers) on current and future availability of goods
- upstream order transmission - orders are automatically transported to suppliers
- upstream dependency notification - automated information to upstream parties on scheduled supply chain actions and required deliveries
- downstream deliverability notifications - automated information to downstream partners on supply chain on probable or imminent suppy chain breaks due to deliverability changes
- downstram fulfillment status transmission - the delivery chain status is automatically shared with downstream parties.
- upstream returns transmission - suppliers are notified on upcoming returns and can prepare
- downstream returns status transmission - return are processed at suppliers, but the results are shared automatically to customers.
- downstream electronic billing and crediting - bill are created and digitally transmitted to customers
- electronic invoice checks - bills need to be verfied and only if they are, transmitted to book keeping
IT landscape integration or augmentation
ZUGSEIL Supply Chain Network is integral part of our products ZUGSEIL Supplier (supplier side) and ZUGSEIL BEST (customer side).
No matter if you want to use ZUGSEIL tools or continue to use a preexisting ERP system, the ZUGSEIL Supply Chain Network can be used to enable the advanced collaboration capabilities of b-op to any existing ERP.
For the second case, ZUGSEIL Supply Chain Network can be integrated easily into any preexisting landscape, without the necessity to use ZUGSEIL frontend products at all.
We have a sophisticated integration tools:
- system integration tools, which allow various integration scenarios with for most common ERPs like Navision, SAP, ...
- a sophisticated b-op API, which allows integration of external systems by any 3rd parties to which you allow to access your data.