Case Studies
Wolters Kluwer Health Publishing
By 2010 Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading publisher of medical
and drug reference tools and textbooks, was printing 95% of its
books in China, up from 15% in 2009. This brought huge savings but
the company soon realized that shipping the books to a central hub
in the US and then sending them back out to distribution partners
worldwide no longer made sense.
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Scholastic
Scholastic is the largest publisher and distributor of
children's books in the world, with about $2 billion in annual
revenues. It serves customers in 45 languages in more than 150
countries.
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Improving the supply chain of a leading publisher
A major book publisher has reduced its supply chain costs by 15%
through changing its printing, storage and distribution patterns in
close collaboration with supply chain consultancy Virtualized
Logistics.
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