IBS Bookmaster
IBS Bookmaster, a product of International Business Systems
Clients: 110+
Target Market: Publishers and distributors with sales of $10M to $2B
Languages: English, Spanish, Polish (forthcoming), Portuguese, French (forthcoming), Japanese (forthcoming)
Website: www.ibsus.com, www.ibs.net
Summary:
Bookmaster is a fully integrated ERP system for book publishers with strong distribution and warehouse management capabilities.
All modules have a standard look and feel and are delivered as a business-rule driven, customizable solution. Most publishers require little or no modifications to use Bookmaster and 95% of all Bookmaster customers worldwide use the same standard core system. This makes it easy to keep up with new releases - an average customer takes about one week to move to a new version (compared to many months or even years for some packages).
While most of Bookmaster’s clients have IT departments a number do not. In fact they have several customers where Bookmaster is looked after by the company secretary or accountant. Bookmaster has many functions and can become complex if all are used, but many smaller customers just use a subset of the system and once it is set up it can easily be managed without an IT staff.
What sets IBS Bookmaster apart from competitors is their track record of rapid implementations at large book distributors. A few years back a distributor purchased SAP, the implementation went over budget and they switched to Bookmaster. Bookmaster was up and running in four months.
Vendor Information:
Bookmaster is used by publishers and distributors in 16 countries and is suitable for all kinds of publisher. These include:
- Trade- Bookmaster has many trade customers around the world including at least one subsidiary of most major trade houses.
- Academic- Bookmaster has 80% of the Academic publishers in Australia and many more around the world. In the USA Bookmaster is used by 5 of the largest University Presses
- Subscriptions based- Lexis Nexis, the world’s largest legal subscriptions based publisher, uses Bookmaster in 7 countries. Juta is the largest subscriptions based publisher in South Africa.
- Christian - Bookmaster is used by several large Christian publishers in the USA.
- Distributors- Bookmaster is used by many distributors of all sizes around the world.
Clients include:
Elsevier Science
Harvard University Press
Lexus Nexis (7 countries)
McGraw-Hill (4 countries)
Pearsons (4 countries)
Simon & Schuster
Yale University Press
Testimonials:
Reference #1
“Our decision to purchase the Bookmaster system has paid off. The system has been operational for three years and is constantly improving. Incorporated into each upgrade are enhancements that have increased productivity. The changing needs of publishing are constantly addressed, and operational efficiencies are steadily improving.”
Stacey L. Armstead, Manager of Information Systems
Johns Hopkins University Press, USA
Reference #2
“I would gladly recommend this to anyone who wants to ensure technology is a business tool and not a bottomless pit for wasting money and time.”
Stephen Smith, Finance Director,
Thomson ITP, Asian Group of Companies. Singapore
Reference #3
“Where RF picking has replaced paper, our error rate has fallen from 2-3% to virtually nil. Bookmaster has the best book warehousing system I’ve ever seen.”
Andy Palmer, Managing Director,
Macmillan Distribution Services, Australia
Reference #4
“Bookmaster is very easy to use. I can quickly answer any question that a customer gives me.”
Angie, Order Entry and Customer Service,
Columbia University Press, USA
