Order-Taking,
Fulfillment and Distribution
For publishers that outsource
all aspects of fulfillment from order-taking to
shipment, ACUMEN has import/export formats to make
communication with the following distribution services
simpler.
|  | Internet
Sales
Our Product
Marketing Module, part of the core system, enables
you to store all bibliographic and marketing information
about your titles and to export that data to partners,
including Amazon, Bowker, & Barnes & Noble.
We provide export formats to give you a head-start.
Your own website can also be updated with these
exports. |
Publishers
Group West | 
National
Book Network | | 
Ingram
Book Group | 
Barnes
& Noble.com |
Credit Card Processing
Our Credit
Card Optional Module will securely authorize
and settle payments directly from ACUMEN over the
internet using either Authorize.Net
or VeriSign.
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Amazon.com |  
Bowker.com |
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The eCommerce
Interchange Optional Module enables you to
retrieve orders from your website, send out order
and shipment email confirmations, maintain your
website with product and inventory information,
and much more.
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Remote
Fulfillment and Distribution
Some publishers take their
own orders, and work with a distributor who ships
the orders. ACUMEN has import/export formats to
exchange order and shipment confirmation information
with the following distribution services. For more
information, see Remote
Fulfillment Optional Module. |
Banta
Corporation
GENCO
Distribution System
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Dearborn
Trade Distribution
Maple-Vail
Book Manufacturing Group
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Publishers
Storage & Shipping Corp.
Sheridan
Books | 
Ware-Pak
Bookworld
Services Inc. |
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Consignment
Distribution
Our Consignment
Distribution Optional Module allows a publisher
to easily communicate order and fulfillment information
with the consignment distributors who also use ACUMEN.
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Point
of Sale & Conferencing
Orders at conferences or special events can easily
be synchronized with the main ACUMEN data file using
our Point
of Sale & Conferencing Optional Module.
An unlimited number of retail locations can also
be included in your operations.
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ISBS | ISBS
provides marketing and distribution services to academic and specialist publishers
from around the world.
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An Ingram
Title Import System is part of this optional
module. Ingram maintains over 600,000 titles which
can be imported into ACUMEN periodically to keep
product information up to date.
Ingram Book Group
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North Atlantic Books | Since
1977, NAB has been serving individuals who seek to improve themselves and expand
their knowledge of the world around them. | |
ACUMEN
has developed an API that makes it possible to import
only the Ingram information that is important to
you—BISAC Codes, Title, Annotations, Publisher
Marketing, and/or In-Stock Status. |
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EDI
(Electronic Data Interchange)
ACUMEN has relationships with the following EDI
companies so that documents such as invoices and
purchase orders can be sent directly from ACUMEN
to major trading partners. See Electronic
Data Interchange Optional Module for more information. |
| Shipping
Manifest
ACUMEN's flexible shipping manifest system can export
data to UPS & FedEx using API scripts. Shipment
confirmation, tracking numbers, actual shipping
charges and more can be imported back into the ACUMEN
orders. |
Unitech
EDI Systems
Pozicom
Technologies
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Sterling
Commerce | | |
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Remote
Access
Increasingly, management
and staff need secure access to the company computer
systems when they are away from the office. ACUMEN
has full support for remote
access over the internet through Windows Terminal
Server® or Citrix®. A DSL or cable modem connection
can give an employee secure network access at a
speed that is similar to being in the office.
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UPS
FedEx
USPS
