ZUGSEIL P2P Hub
The more the inter-company processes are digitalized, the more value is generated for the customer and the supplier side!
Since 2016 in an ideal world, all business participants can have their own b-op digital and are fully and digitally integrated at no cost. But the Procure-To-Pay (P2P) process chain has been around way before 2016 and has been target for digitalization for long time. As a result of this legacy software exists for this process chain, each with a lot of customers which can not just switch to a b-op based system at once, but must ways to at least partially use the benefits instead before a migration project can start. For exactly this purpose we have developed the ZUGSEIL P2P Hub. The ZUGSEIL P2P Hub enables users to interact with not b-op based parties by leveraging legacy systems and technologies.
The P2P Hub Coreservice is covering these 4 basic integration paths and mixtures of them:
- Supplier's b-op digital to customer's 3rd party product (Integration path SDC3) - see details here ...
- Supplier's b-op digital to supplier's 3rd party product (Integration path SDS3) - see details here ...
- Customer's b-op digital to supplier's 3rd party product (Integration path CDS3) - see details here ...
- Customer's b-op digital to customer's 3rd party product (Integration path CDC3) - see details here ...
These integrations are coming along with common plugins, which allow connectivity to stand-systems with very small effort of plugin-configuration. If any of the 3rd party solutions are not on our standard list, you can create customized plugins through our project partners.
B-Op Api
If you dont want to work with our P2P Hub product and want to do the integration by your own developers you have the option to subscribe to the b-op Api, which allows you a broader way to implement integrations allowing deeper and more sophisticated forms of integration.
Functionality
Supplier side Integration
ZUGSEIL offers through the P2P Hub a product allowing to integrate suppliers with minimal IT effort in two scenarios:
Scenario S1: Customer ERP to Supplier Digital Integration
This form of integration applies, if the customer does not use b-op, but the supplier uses b-op. In this case the customer and supplier may exchange P2P information through plugins hosted with the supplier's digital.
Customer side integration
Supplier Digital to Customer Digital Integration
This form of integration applies, when the supplier does not have its own digital and therefore the functionality of the b-op network is not availble. In this case the customer digital can digitally communicate with the supplier over these standard integration methods:
- Purchase Order Creation Integration - Whenever a purchase order is finally approved, the digital can transmit it to the vendor's ERP through a Vendor-PurchaseOrder-TransmitterPlugIn.
- Customer Order Status Integation - Whenever a customer order status changes on the vendor's side, the vendor can transmit a status update to the customer's digital through a Vendor-PurchaseOrderStatus-ReceiverPlugin.
Components
- ZUGSEIL Catalog Publishing Manager (CPM) - The main tool to create and publish catalogs.
- ZUGSEIL Supplier Catalog Monitor (SCM) - The main tool to see, analyze the impact and adopt catalog changes proposed by suppliers.
- ZUGSEIL Product Classification Manager (PCM) - The main tool to map classification structures onto each other
- ZUGSEIL P2P Supplier Integration (P2P-SI) - The tool to defines per supplier, how to integrate. It allows the configuration of the trust relations and in case of legacy integration allows which legacy interfaces/transport mechanisms to use.
- ZUGSEIL P2P Customer Integration (P2P-CI) - The tool to defines per customer, how to integrate. It allows the configuration of the trust relations and in case of legacy integration allows which legacy interfaces/transport mechanisms to use.
- Dev:P2P Hub architecture