Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004
New Book Industry Guidelines for Shipping Container Labeling
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) recently announced new guidelines for shipping labels and carton/pallet level product packaging identifiers. The new guidelines reflect revisions to the 1996 edition of Guidelines for Shipping Container Codes and Symbols for the US Book Industry, which was developed by the Distribution Executive Interest Group (DEIG), a committee of BISG.
A sub-committee of DEIG, chaired by Chris Demyanovich of Random House, created the new recommended standards for the book industry in order to simplify capturing data at all stages of shipping, warehousing and receiving between trading partners. Committee members, according to Demyanovich were focused on insuring that the book industry is "aligned with global trade."
"One of our goals was to put the book industry in line with the rest of general retailing using standards that all partners can adopt. We wanted to provide recommendations for consistent label information and label placement on cartons and pallets, making receiving product faster and more accurate," says Demyanovich.
Members of the sub-committee, making the recommendations included representatives from Baker & Taylor, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Simon & Schuster, John Wiley & Sons as well as other publishers, booksellers and vendors associated with the book industry.
About BISG
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is a not-for-profit research, policy and standards organization whose members come from every sector of the publishing community. The Study Group is a forum for managing change and enabling interaction among publishers, booksellers, librarians, wholesalers, manufacturers, authors, and suppliers. For more information, visit www.bisg.org.
A sub-committee of DEIG, chaired by Chris Demyanovich of Random House, created the new recommended standards for the book industry in order to simplify capturing data at all stages of shipping, warehousing and receiving between trading partners. Committee members, according to Demyanovich were focused on insuring that the book industry is "aligned with global trade."
"One of our goals was to put the book industry in line with the rest of general retailing using standards that all partners can adopt. We wanted to provide recommendations for consistent label information and label placement on cartons and pallets, making receiving product faster and more accurate," says Demyanovich.
Members of the sub-committee, making the recommendations included representatives from Baker & Taylor, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Simon & Schuster, John Wiley & Sons as well as other publishers, booksellers and vendors associated with the book industry.
About BISG
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) is a not-for-profit research, policy and standards organization whose members come from every sector of the publishing community. The Study Group is a forum for managing change and enabling interaction among publishers, booksellers, librarians, wholesalers, manufacturers, authors, and suppliers. For more information, visit www.bisg.org.