The Chicago Distribution Center

Chicago Distribution Services

Two hundred seventy-three thousand square feet. Nearly twelve million books in inventory. Nearly thirty-four thousand active ISBN's. More than nineteen thousand units shipped daily. Welcome to the Chicago Distribution Center.

CDC receives, picks, packs, and ships orders for the University of Chicago Press's Books and Journals Divisions. What really makes its services impressive, however, is that it also functions as the hub for more than fifty scholarly publishers. Since 1991, CDC has provided many of the world's finest academic publishers with state-of-the-art fulfillment, customer service, collection, and reporting.

Comprehensive, professional, up-to-date, and flexible, CDC offers its client publishers the following services:

• Warehousing and receiving
• Order entry and customer service
• Picking, packing, billing, and shipping
• Title Management
• Eloquence data feeds to customers
• Special services
• Credit and collection
• Inventory management
• Electronic order processing (EDI, Pubnet, and Easylink)
• 800 number for orders
• Web shopping cart
• Order consolidation across distributed clients
• Sales, royalty, and inventory reporting
• Digital printing center located in the warehouse (CDDC)
• Repository for digital book files (BiblioVault)

If you are a publisher interested in becoming a CDC client, please contact Don Collins. ()

History of Chicago Distribution Center

The Chicago Distribution Center was founded in 1966 to serve the needs of the University of Chicago Press Book and Journal Divisions in warehousing and distributing their publications. In 1991, CDC began offering its comprehensive services - warehousing, customer service, business services, order fulfillment, returns management, collection, and all attendant information technology - to other university presses. The University of Tennessee Press was the first CDC client. By the middle of 2006, the CDC was serving more than fifty publishers.