ZER, Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey: ZerOnline

Company: ZER
Nomination Submitted by: Business Awards Consulting
Company Description: ZER offers its business partners end-to-end purchasing solutions where they can turn purchasing difficulties into opportunities with its expert staff, innovative solutions and wide supply network as Turkey's first and largest purchasing company.
Nomination Category: Product & Service Categories - Business Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: Electronic Commerce Solution
2022 Stevie Winner Nomination Title: ZerOnline
  1. Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
    Written answers to the questions
  2. If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the nominated video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video.

     

  3. If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:

    A new Product launched in 2020

    Turkey's leading purchasing and supply chain management company ZER has set out to bring a new digital experience to companies' material purchasing with its new online order management system and corporate e-commerce platform ZerOnline.

  4. If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):

    Total 285 words used.

    ZER offers its business partners end-to-end purchasing solutions where they can turn purchasing difficulties into opportunities with its expert staff, innovative solutions and wide supply network as Turkey's first and largest purchasing company. ZER offers an efficient, sustainable and competitive purchasing experience to its corporate customers with materials through over 20K suppliers in more than 130 categories.

    In 2020, especially with the effect of the pandemic, the shopping experience has  moved to online experience. Even though the nature of corporate B2B purchases are different, marketplaces and e-commerce sites have started to target corporate companies, especially in indirect material purchases.

    Turkey's leading purchasing and supply chain management company ZER has set out to bring a new digital experience to companies' material purchasing with its new online order management system and corporate e-commerce platform ZerOnline.

    By combining Zer’s expertise in material purchasing with innovative B2B order management solution, ZerOnline offers 550K products in 125 sub-categories from technical industrial materials to packing materials, from office consumables to technological products, with advantageous discount rates provided by Zer's purchasing volume.

    ZerOnline has been designed to carry all the well-known features of e-commerce/online shopping sites, thus giving users a familiar shopping experience.

    ZerOnline offers office, stationery, food, cleaning and packaging products as well as technical and industrial materials that companies need. ZerOnline, which is the richest technical and industrial products catalog in Turkey in terms of product diversity with over 580 brand agreements, meets the needs of industrialists in particular with its product structure ranging from work clothes to hand tools, from cutting equipment to fasteners.

    ZerOnline offers a centralization opportunity to companies with multiple purchasers especially in different and dispersed locations and in diverse structures such as dealer network structuring.

  5. If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):

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    ZerOnline Achievements:

    ZerOnline reached over 500 customers in a short time and had a 67% share in the turnover generated by all digital solutions of Zer.

    Total turnover of ZerOnline increased by 107% in 2021 reaching a total turnover of 320 Million₺

    ZerOnline increased its gross profit by 109% in 2021, reaching the highest increase among all of Zer’s digital solutions.

    With the launching of ZerOnline, Zer's gross profit also increased with an average monthly increase of 37%.

    The number of orders created in 2020 increased from 125 thousand to 150 thousand in the first half of 2021.

    Standing out from its peers, ZerOnline offers the following advantages:

    -Easy access to high quality products at advantageous prices with the right suppliers selected by ZER’s experienced purchasing specialist teams,

    -Using the purchasing volume of Zer, benefiting from advantageous bulk purchase prices even though a single product is purchased.

    -Ease of reaching reliable suppliers with one click without having to search for different suppliers for each product.

    -Minimizing possible problems such as; repetitive shipment tracking, invoicing, payment with each supplier.

    -Reaching all needs from a single point with ZerOnline’s rich product catalog

    ZerOnline also differs from its competitors with its features and advantages of:

    Turkey's Richest B2B Product Portfolio:

    With its product variety, number of suppliers and categories ZerOnline, the platform with the widest technical catalog products in Turkey, has 550 thousand kinds of products with over 580 brands.

    Integration Opportunity:

    ZerOnline stands out with its integration features. ZerOnline can easily be integrated with clients’ present ERP systems like SAP, thus offering clients the opportunity to manage all purchasing operation in one system.

    Internal/External Approval Mechanism: Through the approval mechanism newly developed on ZerOnline, users send their order requests to the approval person defined in their ERP system and all approval processes are carried out digitally. It is ensured that department-based expenses and investment costs can be controlled and reported on ZerOnline and also ensured that expenditures are made within the limits determined by budget tracking (in order, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual periods). Thus, unexpected out-of-budget expenses are avoided.

  6. You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):

     

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    Apx1- Sample Customer Case

    This document details a customer case on ZerOnline implementation Project, benefits and results

    Apx2-Video-ZerOnline Introduction Video

    In this video, the scope, features and advantages of ZerOnline are explained in details.

    Apx3-Presentation-ZerOnline Presentation

    Presentation on 

    • ZerOnline's Features and Details
    • Differences and Advantages of ZerOnline
    • Customer Cases

    Appendix 4: Website: Zer Website

Attachments/Videos/Links:
ZerOnline
PDF Apx1_Sample_Case_ZerOnline.pdf
URL Apx2-Video-ZerOnline Introduction Video
PDF Apx3_ZerOnline_Presentation.pdf
URL Appendix 4: Website: Zer Website