MBS Direct is located in Columbia, Missouri. We provide independent schools and their families across the country with a customized, online bookstore.
With MBS Direct, students can order new or used texts, supplemental materials, and have access to free resource links and study aides.
All inventory is based on course lists submitted by faculty and housed on-site at our Columbia facility.
There are no set-up costs, nor any other hidden costs, for our service.
MBS Direct
ensures that students have the correct materials on the first day of class;
relieves schools of the cost and hassles of bookstore operations; and provides
increased service amenities to both school and family. MBS Direct is delighted
to be corporate members of NAIS, NBOA, NCEA and CAPE.
Founded to meet your needs.
Park College, now Park University, an established MBS customer, asked the
company if they could take on the task of managing the textbook distribution
for their extended learning program. Park had 28 sites located on military
bases throughout the U.S. and was distributing all the textbooks to each
location from the bookstore on their main campus. Despite the program's
success, the school was losing money due to unusually high operational costs,
largely incurred by shipping materials to each location and excessive amounts
of unsold, misplaced and returned inventory. MBS took on the challenge. They
created a comprehensive, customized fulfillment program that assumed all
responsibility for individual student sales, inventory acquisition and
management, and distribution. The college administrators' savvy and acumen
turned a resource into a partner. MBS' proactive response to customer need made
the program a success. MBS Direct was born.
Experience
We partner with hundreds of independent schools and colleges across the nation.
We understand the discrete fulfillment needs of each type of program.
Foresight
MBS Direct tries to anticipate your needs, not react to them. No one else lends
the advantage of cutting edge tools and learning materials such as eContent, Faculty Center Network and STUDYtactics. These unique tools help your school stay
competitive and on par with the technological evolution of
education.
Performance
Our performance is key to the success of our business and is unrivaled. Because
MBS Direct invests in the people, training, and infrastructure to ensure we can
grow right along with you, our performance is near perfect. 99.3% of in-stock
orders leave our facility within 24 hours. Our fulfillment accuracy rate - the
percentage at which the right book gets to the right student - is 99.9%.
