Volume 04 | Topic: Finding the Right Fulfillment Partner
What do we need from a warehouse to grow our business?
Each department should answer this question and develop a complete list of competencies and competitive advantages they are seeking. Your Sales and Customer Service people will have a customer’s perspective, while Operations and Accounting will look closer at some of the costs associated with selling books. All of these perspectives and requirements are necessary to fulfill the organization’s future growth. The biggest mistake a publisher can make is failing to develop a vision of what it is looking for in a warehousing partner.
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Publishers are being put under a great deal of pressure by the big distributors, such as Amazon, Baker & Taylor, and Border's, to implement EDI transactions. There is a lot of confusion about what an EDI transaction is. This white paper is meant to help explain some of these technical terms.
As a publisher and as a business leader, you have to be able to delegate certain tasks in order to keep your perspective and generate ideas to grow the business. This is true even if you run a small publishing house. However, when you don't have the talent in-house, the question becomes, should you hire or should you outsource? Many publishers, large and small, are finding great benefits to outsourcing fulfillment services. This White Paper discusses the six (6) primary reasons to outsource order fulfillment services.
As publishers and associations investigate the process of outsourcing to an order fulfillment service, begin by thinking about what you really need and want in a business partner to help grow your business. After all, the main goal is to increase sales and grow the organization both organically and externally.
