Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), UK, and Ingram Content Group have announced that Cambridge's North American branch has entered into a long-term logistics management agreement with Ingram Publisher Services.
Under the agreement, Ingram will manage all warehousing and physical fulfillment of Cambridge University Press's entire US inventory from its distribution center in Tennessee. Cambridge will continue to provide all order processing and customer service from its operations in New York. The agreement is effective June 1, 2012.
As a result of the agreement, Cambridge expects to realise significant cost savings and increased flexibility to manage the continuing migration from physical to digital distribution of content. Further benefits will be achieved by having physical distribution located adjacent to Lightning Source, Ingram's print-on-demand facility, which currently manufactures titles for the publisher. The new model will allow Cambridge to focus on its core business as a leading publisher of academic books, textbooks, reference materials, electronic publishing, ESL materials, and over 300 academic journals.
