--- title: Book Manufacturers Institute’s Seminar – Improving Your Supply Chain description: B&B shares supply‑chain insights at BMI’s seminar, highlighting the value of focused book printers with scale, efficiency, and burst capacity. image: https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/JGBMM.png --- [Skip to Content](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/whats-new/book-manufacturers-institutes-seminar-improving-your-supply-chain#body) **[InSite Login](https://insite.bradford-bigelow.com/PortalSite/) *•* [Customer Portal](http://portal.bradford-bigelow.com/) *•* [Request a Quote](https://resources.bradford-bigelow.com/quote)** [![BB-Logo](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BB-Logo.png?width=250&height=67&name=BB-Logo.png "BB-Logo")](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/) Toggle Menu - Who We Are Toggle children for Who We Are - [The B&B Story](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/the-bb-story) - [Meet the Team](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/meet-the-team) - [Build a Career](https://careers.bradford-bigelow.com) - [What's New](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/whats-new) - Printing Toggle children for Printing - [Long-Run 4-Color Printing](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/manroland) - [Long-Run 1 and 2-Color Printing](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/timson) - [Medium Run 4-Color Printing](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/hp) - [Short Run 4-Color Printing](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/screens) - Finishing & Logistics Toggle children for Finishing & Logistics - [Binding Styles](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/binding-styles) - [Warehousing & Fulfillment](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/warehousing-fulfillment) - Quality & Sustainability Toggle children for Quality & Sustainability - [Leading Quality Solutions](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/leading-quality-solutions) - [ISO 9001:2015](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/iso-9001) - [G7 Master](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/g7-master) - [Environmental Initiatives](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/environmental-initiatives) - [FSC & SFI](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/fsc-sfi) - Resources Toggle children for Resources - [Ink, Insight & Impact Blog](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/blog) - [Publisher Resource Center](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/publisher-resource-center) - Open Search Search Submit Search - [Get In Touch](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/contact) [back to blog](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/whats-new) [In the News](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/whats-new/topic/in-the-news) # Book Manufacturers Institute’s Seminar – Improving Your Supply Chain Read Time **1 mins** ![](https://www.bradford-bigelow.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/JGBMM.png) Book Manufacturers Institute’s Seminar – Improving Your Supply Chain 1:08 A standing room audience of more than 150 publishers attended the Book Manufacturers Institute’s seminar on How to Improve Your Supply Chain. Featured speakers were John Galligan of Bradford & Bigelow, Kent Larson of Bridgeport National, and Andrew Van Sprang of Maple Press. Key points B&B’s President, John Galligan, made were that book publishers should partner with book printers that understand the market and have the scale, efficiency, and burst capacity publishers need to turn reprints quickly, not diversified printers who do catalogs, magazines, journals, direct mail, financial, with fixed mailing dates. Galligan also recommended book publishers simplify their supply chain with fewer printers who can offer more services. These services would include 1-4C offset and digital printing, perfect, saddle, coil and case binding from one plant with one CSR, and warehousing and distribution services that eliminate economically and environmentally wasteful transportation costs and time delays. 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