Behind The Scenes

Littlehampton Book Services is pleased to show you some of the major features of its Durrington distribution facility:

Operations

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Small Order Automated Packing System

Computer Controlled Carton Routing System

Dedicated workforce. Storage, Fulfillment and Despatch area of over 25,000 sq mtrs. 35,000+ bulk locations and 30,000+ forward locations

Jacketing Pricing Product Quality Checking Point Of Sale construction (Counterpacks, Dumpbins, Shrinkwrapping etc.) Publishers Archiving Facility Proof Copy, Review Copy and Catalogue Mailings

Dedicated Team for Publishers Specialist Schools Team Full multi-currency order processing and query handling Special Hotlines arranged throughout the year Automatic monitoring and releasing of new titles Controlled new title releases Reprints released daily Telesales Operation Debt Insurance Trust Accounting

Inventory

LBS operate a Perpetual Inventory system with a specialist stock management team. The PI system is designed to allow cyclic counting of all locations within each of LBS' six logical warehouses. The PI team acts as a policing operation for all stock management transactions and movements.

Information Technology

	Vista Publishing Software
	Alpha Servers Fault tolerant cluster x 3 Alpha servers inc UPS.
	EDI Available over all networks and transfer protocols with ability to receive orders and return orders and return invoices, credit notes, acknowledgements and delivery.
	Data Warehouse Provides users with flexible Sales Analysis in a web browser environment over the Internet 24/7.
	Systems All systems web enabled. Access to all reports, data warehousing and Vista provided over the web.
LBS is a member of Batch.co.uk

These are just some of the services offered by LBS.
Our main objective is to provide our publishers with the service they need on an individual basis