Peace of Mind
When students don’t have the right materials on the first day of class, they fall behind. All inventory is based on course lists submitted by the school and housed on-site at our Columbia, Missouri facility. There are no set-up costs, nor any other hidden costs for our services. With relevant tools and technology, MBS Direct provides the inventory assurance you need, and the peace of mind you deserve.
Faculty Center Network
This is an award-winning site that allows faculty to research course materials and create an adoption list for their AP courses. In addition, faculty can browse a database of publisher contact information, see a list of titles pending release, stay informed with the “What’s New” page, and create a custom notebook to log titles of interest.
The Edition Status Report
Available through our Direct Service Center, empowers faculty to help ensure proper inventory themselves. The report takes current and future adoptions and matches them to our database of nearly 300,000 titles. This correlation provides warning of potential inventory problems and prompts revisions based on publisher announcements of new editions.
Inventory Based on Adoptions
We stock what you need. You’re partnering with the owner of the largest inventory of new and used books in the nation. Not only is our inventory on-site, but we base inventory acquisition on the adoption lists your faculty submit.
Well-Integrated Computer Systems
Our systems talk to each other. When you submit information that affects adoption data, we upload that information into our acquisition programs, which instantly alerts our buying programs. If you submit late registrations, for example, our buyers are instantly alerted and can increase acquisitions accordingly.
Real-Time Ordering
Real-Time inventory means that the text availability posted on your virtual bookstore – new and used – is accurate and current. Your students will know whether or not the used edition of their text is available at the time they place their order, not after the fact.
Automated Production
Our automated storage and retrieval system is the only one of its kind in the industry. This cutting edge, robotic technology allows us to quickly and accurately fulfill hundreds of orders by processing them simultaneously. In other words, you’ll never know how busy we are. No matter the season, we will always be able to process and fill your students’ orders efficiently, and with nearly 100% accuracy. 99.9% of orders are filled accurately; 99.3% of orders are shipped within 24 hours after time of placement.
