Different rules and procedures at different sites make it difficult to get a centralized handle on the process, and the challenges grow exponentially when you factor in the changes that routinely occur after the initial deadlines have passed and courses are added and dropped. Then of course, book orders and enrollment estimates change as well. At the same time, political realities may dictate that you work with multiple vendors tied to different sites.

How can you balance these seemingly conflicting priorities? Fortunately, there is an easy solution: ED MAP’s OpenVue™ software.

Do you need to work with multiple vendors? OpenVue separates management activities from the distribution process to provide centralized oversight regardless of the number of bookstore vendors. Vendors are happy to receive real-time data and you are not locked into specific vendors: vendors can be changed without changing the process. And it’s convenient for students, too: they go to just one site to get course information and then shop with the most convenient vendor.

Do you prefer to work with just one vendor? OpenVue provides all needed information to that vendor. More importantly ED MAP can also provide necessary data to publishers and other academic vendors who want a “view” in to what is going on with your named vendor. OpenVue helps collate all the disparate data either from departments or campuses and presents that in an orderly fashion to the stakeholders who help you and your students succeed. And if you are looking for the right single vendor, ED MAP is well situated to be “that” vendor. Our online bookstore collates the course lists for all your campuses into one central site. Students – who may attend courses at more than one location – appreciate this one-stop shopping convenience. OpenVue (and ED MAP) help you provide good customer service, always a good recruitment and retention tool.

OpenVue helps you manage the course materials fulfillment process independently of the vendors serving your institution and your students. If staff or faculty work at more than one location (or move from one to another) then a centralized process requires no new training. It also maximizes the institution’s revenue flow and brings high-quality service and reasonable pricing across all locations.

OpenVue is an equally effective tool for multi-campus schools that include the costs of course materials in their students’ tuition and/or have negotiated special terms with publishers. ED MAP can receive and store your inventory for you, then individually package and ship the materials to your students. And you can easily manage the process because OpenVue’s tools give you a real-time view of your inventory, the status of your student orders, and tracking information for those orders that have shipped.

So get it all together and contact ED MAP.