“Online trading via the eMarketplace will deliver significant efficiency savings to our business. Our objective is to encourage our customers to trade with us via one online channel, so buyers are trading remotely and we can distribute our books remotely. The critical mass of buyer organisations delivered by the UKprocure eMarketplace will help us achieve this objective. We want to move to a situation where all administration, storage and book handling is handled centrally in Oxford. This will give the staff in our sixty stores the ability to focus on more customer-facing activities as well as enabling us to dramatically cut the cost of goods handling and storage.”