Follett Educational Services (FES) provides full service coordination of all textbook and instructional material
ordering, processing, and distribution activities. FES' Textbook Management Services offer easy, efficient and
effective alternatives for a single school or an entire district! Choose from a variety of service options that
best suit your specific needs and require no technology implementation or personnel investment. The Textbook
Management experts at FES have years of experience helping educators to dramatically reduce the administrative
and logistical costs that normally accompany the textbook procurement and distribution process.
Textbook Procurement
FES will act as your administrative back office support for ordering textbooks from domestic (U.S.) publishers.
An experienced FES Service Specialist will prepare and track your orders, provide status updates, and communicate
directly with publishers regarding delivery, back orders, damaged items and returns. Let us coordinate all the
documentation associated with your ordering activity!
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FES provides:
- Coordination of your orders to your specification (by site, publisher, etc.)
- The option of matching your curriculum list against our high quality pre-owned and premium inventory
- Savings up to 75% off publisher school net prices on FES inventory
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Benefits include:
- Decreased operating expenses
- Reduced administrative paperwork
- Elimination of costly mistakes
- Order tracking and regular status updates
- Order discrepancy resolution
- Support from a dedicated FES Service Specialist
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Sorting and Distribution
Our Sorting and Distribution service enables you to have your instructional materials sent to FES for receiving, sorting,
packing and shipping. This is an easy, cost-effective service, especially during new adoption years!
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FES provides:
- Order receiving
- Order storage
- Order re-distribution & delivery
(Breaking out materials by site)
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Benefits include:
- Decreased operating expenses
- No additional storage space needed
- Materials sorted and consolidated
- Materials received on designated date
- Additional processing options available
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Barcoding Services and Barcodes
Have your new instructional materials sent directly to FES from the publisher. We will apply barcode labels and
security strips. If you need your books labeled or stamped, FES will perform the work according to your
specifications!
Ready to get started? Contact us at x. 4714 for additional information. Just need barcodes? See our barcode information below.
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FES provides:
- Barcode label application
- Security strip application
- Book label application
- Book stamping
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Benefits include:
- Decreased operating expenses
- Barcode ranges provided with each order
- Materials received in "classroom ready" condition
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Barcodes
FES offers both textbook and patron barcodes. Compatible with Follett Software Company's Destiny Textbook
Manager system and 3800g scanners, FES' barcodes allow you to systematically track and manage your textbook
inventory, giving you the time to focus on what's most important -- your students.
FES barcodes are available in digital rolls or as flat laser labels. They are easy to apply and provide the
highest scanning accuracy available. FES can apply these barcodes as part of our Textbook Management Services or
send them to you for your own application.
Get Started Today!
Print and complete our
barcode order form* and return it to us. It's that easy!
* This form requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you do not have this software, you
can download it free.
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