KELLÓ - Library Supply Distribution Co.

SAP Introduction

The library provider (KELLÓ) developed on SAP bases by S&T Unitis serves more than ten thousand client through web department store. The library provider which is accessible on the internet, in the circumstances of the strong market competition keeps its driving position firmly.
The KELLÓ supplies with books, journals, audio-visual substances more than three and a half thousand Hungarian public-, technical- and school- library. Beside the institutions it serves more than ten thousand public collection employee and beyond this many foreign teachers, and more a hundred private persons.

The company, which the Hungarian state brought onto existence in 1991, tried to make supplying it through the internet already from the middle of the nineties. Because of this when the integrated company management opted the introduction system, announced the public procurement application in that manner, that the prospective winner has to develop a web department store on the bases of the new informatics system in the second section of the introduction. S&T Unitis gained this tender, and after carrying out the SAP introduction successfully developed the web.

It is significant for the library provider to let it-self distinguish in a strong market competition – said Sándor Kormos IT headmaster. We perform state tasks for the order of the Educational and Cultural Ministry, but we do not receive a support from the budget, we have to meet the cost of our expenses from a profit margin accomplished on the book market. We insure our position with advanced services that our clientele, may not meet at other book distributors.

This arises from one the company state tasks. It sells all the books, audio and video substances edited in Hungary– altogether more than 35 thousand titles –,to help to grow the library substance. In this supply the little number of copies publications, the first volume authors' works and the technical works full selection can be found, that usually in the bookshops and in the web department stores does not receive place. The library provider adds vocational description to all volumes. This information stands for a provision in the form of the bibliographic records being equal to the international standards, the libraries can load at the moment of on-line order into the catalogue of their library program, in this manner does not need to reload the data again.

S&T Unitis specialists developed our web department store in SAP, in this manner our corporate management system and the integration between the web-surfaces is the possible most full – emphasized Sándor Kormos . The appearing information and views on the web page the SAP generates in real time, and the transactions initiated on the web surface happen in SAP, the started or the given process is carried on. This was the possible best decision, which develops the realization of our future.

The clients can easily look for in the all-time current supply in which the electronic newsletters help duly for the solution beside the searching function and the vocational descriptions. The on-line orders get into SAP immediately, and the clients may track the progress continuously.

It demands from the company's part the service of the clients fewer resources, with more efficient treatment of the stock, the transport and invoicing, and the data processing which is connected to the validation of the different discounts. The analysis of the clients' orders, of his preferences was plainer likewise. The expenses decreased in a considerable measure because the on-line processes cut out the paper basis processing.

The result of SAP web development the library provider's suppliers, more than a thousand publishers may check their supply being stored at the company through the internet. This is an important benefit for the publishers because the realization happens on a consignment basis and they may plan their incomes and their additional transports better.

Today the libraries order more than half of their books on the internet, which is true for the big libraries without an exception, – showed Sándor Kormos . With our modern web developments and added big value services managed to ensure that our company preserves its first place steady in the big competition of the library supply.

The library provider's web department store has more than ten thousand registered users: more than one and a half thousand libraries, eight thousand public collection employees and foreign teacher, and half a thousand private persons. Towards these last ones the full opening did not occur yet, a marketing campaign starting this year will target them.