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ZUGSEIL has specialized in software solutions for ensuring that people are always equipped with the goods they require at their job!

Long story short

When we were asked in 2002 by our first customer to build an employee shop this looked to us like a fairly simple job. We had to learn that this impression was deceiving!

Problems arose when we found that the goods required by staff are often critical to operations or there are legal requirements which make it essential to deeply integrate with suppliers along the supply chains, e.g. in personal protective equipment. Even more complexity injected, when we found that personal equipment in many cases requires a high level of customization of the products (e.g. product variants in corporate wear). When thinking on full digitization of your internal procurement we sometimes even ended up with freely configurable products in the area of personal protective equipment (PPE) or medical supplies for individual employees. Also we had to learn, that many companies have a clear definition who should receive which equipment items at which point in time depending on the activities and regions the employee is active in. In the last years customers more and more are striving to reduce their ecological footprint and company spending by introducing product-lifecycle-tracking for reuse or refurbishment cycles of equipment.

All these issues were not clear at the beginning of our journey but have brought us to the point that we can now offer a merely complete set of tools which go far beyond the regular purchasing scope offered by other systems.

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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 fully covered digitally. Although the first step on the path to full digitization is proper handling of the Procure-To-Pay or Source-To-Pay Processes, we have understood that the real value for our customers is to deliver a full digital integration of all business processes required in the entire lifecycle processes of all products relevant to our customer - and mostly important across company borders with the suppliers and customers. We are 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.

Areas of business covered by ZUGSEIL products

ZugSeil builds products which serve customers active in the Trade Sphere and Employment Sphere. By following the provided links you can read up further details on the business areas in these sphere which can be digitized by ZUGSEIL products.

Products

The ZUGSEIL Supply Chain Solutions AG company offers products under the two brands ZUGSEIL and Advances Trade Sphere Tools (ATST) which each serve a different client base.

ZUGSEIL Brand

The ZUGSEIL brand is the area from which we originate - the corporate wear industry. Corporate wear comes with complex products and highly specific business processes, which bring a lot of sophisticated on the customer side as well as on the supplier side. Exactly for catering these highly complex business processes which require strong collaboration (and therefore deep digital integration) between suppliers and customers, we have developed two standard products, which can be easily on-boarded through our website and free online training courses:

  • ZUGSEIL Equipment Shop - for the customer side, which has to equip their employees with corporate fashion or ppe
  • ZUGSEIL Supplier Cloud - for the supplier side, which has to integrate with the customer side and deliver products and services to them.

Advanced Trade Sphere Tools (ATST) brand

Although having started as specialty solutions for corporate fashion and personal protective equipment (ppe), we have learned that it is easier for our solutions which are built for solving complex procurement issues of our customers to solve simple procurement issues, rather than the other way around when using standard P2P or S2P solutions. As a result we have developed a more abstract and thus powerful implementation of our tools which can act as a full peer-to-peer procurement solution. It can be used for supply chain management for all types of products - and of course c parts. Therefore, the tools of ATST are ideal for all organizations which wants to drive their digital business process integration with all partners in their entire trade sphere ecosystem:

Comfort level products (onboarding over a cloud solution possible, reduced complexity)

Sport level products (advanced functionality, requires training)

  • ATST Procurement Suite - a full procurement-suite which comes with many advanced functionality for supply chain management
  • ATST Supplier Suite - a full suite for handling most of the supplier tasks required for integration with the customers

Performance level products (top notch functionality, project management and training required)

  • ATST Confide - an extension package for the supplier side bearing a full configuration product with solution space designers
  • ATST B2B Shop - an extension package for the supplier side bearing a standard b2b shop (for integration with enterprises which are not b-op based)
  • ATST Supplier ERP - a full ERP solution for the supplier-side (except book-keeping)

How to read this wiki

This wiki has the intention to deliver an integrated knowledge base to all steakholders 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:


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