A Course to the Top

Systems for inventory management also have been impacted. For the more traditional business, and for a limited number of the specialty products, School Specialty uses System for Distributors, a supply-chain solution. The other specialty catalog businesses use a mail-order system from Ecometry. And a new enterprise-wide, fulfillment-management system from Yantra is being installed and should be complete in 12 to 15 months. “The plans are to combine everything onto one system,” Vander Zanden says.