Learning from the journals supply chain Helen Henderson

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Learning from the journals supply chain

• Helen Henderson, Ringgold
• Ramon Schrama, Swets

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Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot
(JSCEI)

• Agenda
• Why?
• Objectives
• Methodology
• Interim outcomes
• Next steps
• Relevance to the Book Supply Chain

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Why supply chain integration?

• Electronic journals/books faster
• Faster fewer hurdles
• Fewer hurdles electronic processing
• Electronic processing supply chain integration
• Supply chain integration STANDARDS!

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Possible transactions
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Background to JSCEI Pilot

• Objectives
• Participants
• Methodology
• Work Packages

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Interim outcomes

• Existing complex supply chain mapped
• Existing institution identification numbers do
  not meet the needs of JSCEI Pilot
• Improvements in electronic supply chain for
  journals are an immediate need
• In the short term, identifier primarily benefits
  publisher marketing secondary benefits in
  subscription admin elements of the supply chain
• Given continued positive results, JSCEI Pilot
  should be extended into 2007

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Next steps

• The work has been mainly theoretical, and future
  effort will focus on more specifics
• modeling transactions between participants
• setting up use case scenarios for handling 2007
  subscriptions, especially those with a change in
  status
• setting up external discussions groups to
  contribute to the JSCEI Pilot

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Relevance to Book Supply Chain

• Bundling of journal and book content
• Consortia sales
• Complete view of institutional customers
• Books
• Journals
• Authors
• Editors
• Reviewers

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Conclusions

• Increasing move to electronic for books
• Sales to consortia
• Books following journal business models by about
  3 years
• Supply chain will follow similar lines