Modern Book and Printing Commerce

A 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.

And finally, book fulfillment services in Singapore provide tracking services which means inventory monitoring services from warehousing to distribution, including shipping. These part of book fulfillment services is the tail end of supply chain services that can help companies monitor activity from warehouse or pick up point to selling. Many book fulfillment services in Singapore provide forms and labels that allow tracking across the whole supply chain functions and assuring the quality of scanning and imaging are critical variables that must be satisfactorily provided by print fulfillment services.