Internal order

Internal ordering means the process of employees filing their demand on items required for their work (e.g. for c-parts). Typical products for this process are tools, personal protective equipment (ppe) or corporate wear.

Fundamental process

For filing the demand to the company ZUGSEIL offers two core process paths:

• Regular ordering - the standard process. Select from a list of products offered through internal catalogs.
• Assisted ordering - the enhanced process. Reduced list of products by rules defined by the organization or by artificial intelligence. Goal is to reduce the complexity of the process, to speed it up and simplify it. Goal is to reduce the time invest for internal ordering to the minimum.

Payment of internal ordering

Depending on the type of equipment and the usage scenarios ZUGSEIL offers these types of payment:

Fulfillment of internal orders

Once the demand is filed, companies have two decide between two core fulfillment strategies:

• Local stock fulfillment - means the fastest availability of goods. Downsides are capital binding, warehousing and disposition planning costs.
• On demand purchasing - means slower availability and direct dependency on supplliers. Benefit is the reducion of warehousing cost. Capital binding and disposition planning can be negotiated with the suppliers.

General Process Flow

• Ordering
• "AdHoc purchasing" vs "Local Fulfillment"

Process "Just in time ordering"

Clearance process

Purchaing with supplier

Fulfillment

Billling

Problems

Maverick buying

distributed clearance process require process guidance - especially material clearance

Combination of "Just in time process vs. bulk ordering

warehousing in bulk ordering

Regular ordering

Assisted ordering