MBS provides college stores with the tools they need to simplify their day-to-day, week-to-week and year-to-year store tasks. From ordering course materials to receiving and buyback, MBS has the resources you need to save time. Let’s look at three robust tools that MBS offers to college stores.
3 Tools That Simplify Campus Store Processes
- Service Center
MBS Service Center provides college stores with a variety of tools and information to help streamline textbook management. Through Service Center, you can easily order books using our Realtime Ordering functionality. Start a bin-and-hold order (submit your store’s want list to MBS for a set length of time and request reworks to maximize fulfillment) or submit an ASAP order.
Service Center also makes it easy to track shipments coming from MBS or those that have been shipped to MBS. View and/or email invoices and packing slips and generate your own shipping and receiving reports.
Within Service Center, you can also access Textbook Trader. Textbook Trader is a free resource that helps your store reduce losses from unsold, non-returnable, and not adopted stock—lightening your inventory load and improving operational efficiency.
And finally, within Service Center, stores can track a variety of information. You can view your sales history; access sales, purchases and returns data; see a summary of your pending orders; and track your payments, account balance and credit limit.
Under Tool Center, you can access Faculty Center Network (FCN). FCN contains information on more than 3.3 million titles. Faculty can also access instructions on how to request review copies from publishers, book rankings by popularity and more. - SimpleSource
SimpleSource is an unparalleled tool for managing your store’s want list fulfillment. Through SimpleSource, your store accesses a wide array of inventory, including new and used wholesale books at below-market costs as well as the ability to shop the course material marketplace.
Select the percentage of your list that you would like MBS to fulfill through our traditional and/or marketplace inventory models and select your preferred want list parameters (pricing tiers, start and end dates, etc.). Lists managed through SimpleSource are automatically reworked multiple times a day – maximizing fulfillment. In turn, stores have been able to improve their margins and pass along greater student savings.
Some of the other SimpleSource benefits include:
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- Immediate access to pricing
- Saving time by not having to submit multiple orders, request individual reworks, streamlined order reconciliation and simplified accounting.
- Simplified marketplace sourcing and access to more off-priced wholesale inventory
- You can receive all of your order (wholesale and marketplace) at once – Not multiple shipments with multiple invoices
- Realtime fulfillment updates
Learn more about SimpleSource.
- The MBS System
The MBS system offers a robust solution specifically designed for the challenges campus stores face. Working closely with campus stores to understand the real-life day-to-day functions of the store and how to best support this unique branch of retail, we have developed a truly flexible, affordable state-of-the-art collegiate retail system designed to streamline your store processes.
Discover new possibilities for your campus store with the MBS system like MBS POS Café functionality. This feature allows you to easily add new revenue streams, simplify reporting across campus store departments and reduce fees associated with additional services.
MBS is committed to the continued success of our college store partners. We work to bring you the best tools and resources for your unique business. To learn more about the MBS system, contact one of our system sales consultants today.
