Serving students worldwide during the 2016-2017 school year
*July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
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Since 1992, MBS Direct has helped hundreds of schools streamline their course material fulfillment. See where it all began and how far we've come.
*July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
MBS Direct employees provide wonderful services for our families with friendly assistance, affordable prices, and excellent customer service. The web-based interface is easy to use and excellent to navigate through the textbook title submission process. We love working with MBS Direct!
Tom Opfer
Assistant Principal/Academic Dean, Paul VI Catholic High School
MBS Direct fulfills the course material fulfillment needs of Park University's distance learning program (including the main campus and 28 military bases).
Automatic Storage and Retrieval (ASR) and Radio Frequency (RF) picking are added to the warehouse to shorten out-the-door time and increase capacity for distribution.
MBS Direct expands the Customer Contact Center to better handle increased volume.
As inventory demands increase, MBS Direct replaces one-story library with 3-tiered mezzanine system, doubling storage capacity and increasing efficiency with added automation.
MBS Direct launches Service Center, the online tool for administrators to monitor all aspects of their Online Bookstore.
Service Center expands as Online SFA and Course Director, the online adoption tool, are added.
The first generation of eBooks become available to MBS Direct partners. At this stage, they are delivered as encrypted PDFs.
The addition of the Beumer Crossbelt High-Speed Book Sorter streamlines order fulfillment with the capacity to process more than 20,000 books an hour with unmatched accuracy.
Integrated SFA invoicing creates additional convenience for MBS Direct's partner schools.
MBS Direct begins integration with Campus Management and other Student Information Systems.
Partnership with VitalSource® introduces their tried-and-true eReader solution to MBS Direct customers and expands available eBooks.
MBS Textbook Exchange is purchased by Barnes & Noble Education — finding synergies to offer solutions to all aspects of the course materials industry