Publishers thinking about the digital future know they have to invest, take risks, try experiments. At the same time, existing businesses are being increasingly challenged by change so that squeezing out the cash for new things gets increasingly difficult. SBS Worldwide is a freight forwarder with a difference: they've built robust supply chain capabilities along the path from the printer's door to the publisher's warehouse and they make it easy and efficient for publishers to take costs out of their freight movement while, at the same time, adding capabilities that provide better service to publishers and their customers. Steve Walker, the Chairman of SBS, will introduce the company's USA launch of eDC, the Electronic Distribution Center, as the tool that can provide multiple benefits and total management visibility. This presentation will be of special interest to companies that print books in Asia or transfer stock between the Europe and USA .

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Steve Walker
SBS Worldwide

Steve Walker has spent over 35 years working in the freight industry, and in starting SBS Worldwide in 1983 has seen the company grow on three continents. Over the last 5 years his personal focus has been on developing the company’s strength in shipping books around the world. This has resulted in the writing of their bespoke eDC software, which was launched at Frankfurt to London Houses to considerable interest, and now the USA promotion starts at DBW.