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Publishing has changed; turn digital disruption into competitive advantage

On-demand digital downloads, custom publishing and print-on-demand, B2C e-commerce for B2B publishers – technology and consumer power is reshaping the publishing industry.

Content digitization, expanding digital supply chain channels, accounting regulatory compliance and cybersecurity are key challenges for today’s publishing infrastructures.Traditional processes and legacy systems can no longer meet the operational demands of commercial expectations and growth.

Publishers are seeking industry-speciric solutions that increase the efficiency of existing processes and support the development of new, digital multi-currency and country business models.

At Iptor, we understand the complex challenges facing publishers and distributors. We deliver industry-specific cloud-based solutions, services, and expertise that help our customers streamline their traditional and digital publishing process.

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Iptor enables us to execute our strategic plan, which includes the sale of digital products, and deliver on our mission to improve learning outcomes. The solution also provides enhanced analytics, greater transparency in financial reporting, robust compliance and controls, and optimal customer service interactions. Perhaps the most immediate benefit is that it saves our people time, time that can be used for more productive activities.

Matthew Cantwell

Vice President of Finance and Strategy

McGraw-Hill Education

Best Practice ERP Functionality for Publishers in the Digital Age

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End-to-end best-practice publishing functionality

Supplier Management & Demand Planning – Demand Planning – Purchase Management – Shipping Accounting

Inventory & Distribution – Warehouse & Inventory Management – Advanced Warehouse Management – Order Processing and Billing – Returns Management – Third Party Logistics (3PL)

Financials – Royalties, Rights, Permissions & Contracts

– Rebates & Commissions – Global Taxation Systems – Accounts Payable – General Ledger – Accounts Receivable, Claims Control & Tele-collections

– Fixed Assets

Publishing Management – Editorial & Book Production – Academic Adoptions – ISBN Management – Subscriptions – Customer Relationships Management (CRM)

– Retail Management (POS) – Global Unicode Management

e-Commerce & Digital Delivery – e-Commerce platform integration – Sales Integration Web Enablement – Credit Credit management security

Digital Delivery Web Enablement – Subscriptions Web Enablement – Digital Supply Chain Collaboration – Open API & EDI standards – Document Management – Electronic Document Distribution – Electronic Document Management

Analytics

– Business Intelligence and Analytics powered by Qlik

Improve traditional processes and enable digital business model success

– Control digital publishing financial and fulfilment processes with a ‘Virtual Warehouse’ of digital inventory accessed and updated via API, and the ability to calculate unit value, costs and undertake reconciliations for digital specific products.

– Never miss publishing dates with process automation and integration across functions for print and digital production. Scheduling, editorial and production lead-time calculations and workflows put procedures in place to manage exceptions and hit deadlines.

– Automate royalty management with the ability to create contracts, link to transactions and calculate, accrue and pay the correct amount, on time for all types of content.

– Fulfil B2C, B2B, and B2B2C with distribution, supply chain and warehouse management functionality capable of supporting 3PL distributors.

– Give customers choice with Print-on-Demand and Custom Publishing functionality integrated across financial and distribution processes.

– Collaborate with the supply chain via API and EDI standards that automate sales orders and provide access to real-time inventory and product data that enables digital process integration with third parties and e-Commerce platforms.

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Out-of-the-box competitive advantage across multiple publishing industries

Iptor’s comprehensive publishing functionality helps businesses that create and distribute physical and digital content gain a competitive advantage across multiple industries:

Managing critical publishing business processes

Iptor’s robust and flexible cloud-based solution supports end-to-end publishing processes, with strong execution of:

– Editorial and book production process management

– Digital content delivery across all channels

– Digital and physical subscription management

– Royalties, rights, permissions and contract management automation

– Print on Demand (POD) services for print and digital

– Custom Publishing services

– 3PL functionality for larger publishers and distributors

– ISBN management

– Publishing-specific return management

– Academic adoption management for Education

– Music publishing management

– Open API access

Iptor’s comprehensive publishing functionality helps businesses that create and distribute physical or digital content gain a competitive advantage across multiple industries.

Education & e-Learning

Subscriptions

Book Distribution (3PL)

Music

Digital Media

Trade

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A trusted technology partner for publishers

In an increasingly connected world, Iptor Supply Chain Systems empowers our customers to solve their most complex challenges through our connected, intuitive and adaptable cloud-based software, services and support.

We also enable customers to focus on their core business by delivering their IT infrastructure needs through a range of Cloud Managed Services, removing the investment and administration of maintaing systems in house.

A track record of publishing success

For more than 35 years, Iptor has been helping customers such as Penguin Random House, McGraw-Hill Education, Campion Education, Hal Leonard Australia, Cengage Learning, World Scientific Publishing, John Hopkins University Press, Goodheart-Willcox, LexisNexis, HarperCollins, BookSource, and many more around the world to streamline, automate, accelerate and innovate their production and distribution processes to drive profitability and reliable performance efficiencies.

About Iptor

More than 1,250 customers with 4,000 installations in over 40 countries worldwide rely on Iptor Supply Chain Systems for their supply chain management, planning and logistics software, cloud managed services and support.

We help our customers:

– Solve complex challenges through connected, intuitive and adaptable cloud-based software and services.

– Improve visibility via inventory planning, purchasing and supplier management.

– Streamline warehouse operations, demand management and returns processing.

– Remove the administration costs of managing technology infrastructure in-house, through powerful cloud managed services that provide better service levels and greater control of risk and compliance.

For more information, please visit iptor.com.