By the book distribution

摘要

The bell has rung, everyone please take your seat. Class is now in session. Today we will learn about one of the most difficult of all products to distribute―books. They are heavy to handle and dense to store. Most publishers must also carry a large number of titles, requiring the tracking of a multitude of individual stock keeping units (SKUs) within a facility's active inventory. Textbooks require the same exactness as popular titles, except that they tend to be heavier than the typical best-selling novel. Remember lugging around an armload of schoolbooks? Just imagine handling over 100,000 such books everyday. That is the task of McGraw-Hill's new distribution center in Ashland, Ohio. This facility is designed to process orders with textbook precision.