About Industry Connections and ACUMEN Book, the publishing software system designed to help publishers grow

OVERVIEW

About Industry Connections

The importance of good connections has taken on a whole new meaning in today's wired economy. Publishers out-source various aspects of their operations, employ remote workers, sell products over the internet through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and their own website, and enter into consignment relationships. Publishers are increasingly conducting business on-line. CyberWolf is committed to developing and maintaining electronic communication capabilities between ACUMEN publishers and the companies and people with whom they do business. If you don't see a vendor listed below, please contact us to confirm that they are an accepted ACUMEN Book partner.

For publishers with specialized needs, please scroll further to review the following issues —
Order-Taking, Fulfillment and Distribution Credit Card Processing Remote Fulfillment and Distribution	Shipping Manifest Remote Access Consignment Distribution
Electronic Data Interchange

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.

Perseus Distrubution

National Book Network

Ingram

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.

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

Dearborn Trade Distribution

Ingram

Ware-Pak

Sheridan Books

Bookworld Services Inc

GENCO Distribution System

Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group

Publishers Storage & Shipping Corp.

Consignment Distribution
Our Consignment Distribution Optional Module allows a publisher to sell books for other publishers on consignment. Over 30 ACUMEN publishers utilize this module, including the following companies.

ISBS

ISBS provides marketing and distribution services to academic and specialist publishers from around the world.

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.

Unitech EDI Systems

EasyLink

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