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Modern Book and Printing Commerce
by Chung Lei WriterA bookstore
can very well serve as a good example of the traditional commercial businesses
in terms of storage considerations. At any given time, bookstores need
considerable space to stack books. Which means high rental and overhead costs.
Then, they need to pay royalties and copy rights. And lastly, they have limited
capacity in terms of other client’s printing needs.
Book
fulfillment services augment these problems by providing services which
traditional bookstores do not have. And more.
Generally, book fulfillment services provide extensive supply chain solutions where customers can
effortlessly conduct production to distribution transactions without leaving
the comfort of their on-line base. These services drive productivity and streamline
costs. New and integrated warehouse and factory utilities now available fulfillment
companies to print, manufacture, store and monitor product movement using state
of the art technology in a single structure and this significantly allows the
harmonious flow of production, warehouse logistics and inventory tracking and
over-all final fulfillment at bare optimal costs.
Unlike traditional
model of book selling where publishing companies deliver books to bookstores which
serves as the retail store where actual purchases are made. This means
significant warehouse storage needs. And because books are non-consumables and
non-perishable, they can accumulate over time which create further storage
problems. The option is for bookstores to
sell items at cheaper
prices in order to dispose them but this is not profitable and is in fact
a bad business move. Even bookstores that sell
on-line and therefore transact virtually would still extensive storage space to
meet demands. And for online
book printing services, there are shipping costs which further makes the
transaction more expensive depending on logistic capacity of the on-line
seller. However, the process requires significant costs from printing to
selling especially since there are now many commercial companies in involved
from printing to delivery, from purchase to shipping.
In Singapore, book fulfillment services offer
an efficient alternative to the traditional mode of selling books while
significantly cutting costs which is beneficial primarily to the author as
authors can directly contract or outsource book fulfillment companies for
services from printing to storage to distribution and inventory monitoring.
First, in
terms of printing, many book fulfillment
companies have state-of-the art printing technologies like digital offset
printing which is a very cheap solution when printing medium
to large runs of books or for higher volume printing staring with 2000
identical copies.
Second, Singapore book printing
and fulfillment services solves storage
or warehouse logistics needs by
providing warehousing which relieves
online businesses of the necessary actual space to store all supplies and is beneficial
for enterprises without the capacity to directly manage their own inventory.
Sellers send merchandise to the book fulfillment center and the outsourced service
provider ships the merchandise to the customer for them.
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