Scholastic

Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ:SCHL), the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology and children’s media for over 90 years. Scholastic Australia has partnered with global solution providers and extended its distribution reach to include the IT&T solution channel.

For the past 25 years Scholastic has distributed leading IT&T products and services to major retail, commercial, Apple, and education markets nationally. Scholastic provides a range of innovative technology solutions and works together with vendors and resellers to develop customised programs that target market share opportunities. Through its established history and extended partner family, Scholastic is able to reach new and emerging markets not traditionally serviced in the IT&T space.

Scholastic resellers are diverse and provide a unique business proposition via their high-touch relationships in their chosen markets. Scholastic maintains precise distribution operations and high customer satisfaction levels through its Australian Distribution Centre. Resellers can expect excellence in customer service and sales support from a large national sales force of key Account Managers, specialist support from product and licensing teams, and access to our new Scholastic e-Commerce B2B Reseller Portal.

At Scholastic, every partner is unique. Scholastic engages partners with customisable programs and personalised service levels not offered by any other distributor in Australia. We work with our partners to form specific go-to-market strategies that target your individual business needs. We understand that every solution offering requires specialised attention to make it successful. Wrapping our business around your objectives, we dedicate our time and resources towards developing tailored distribution solutions to help drive your business success.

Operationally we offer flexible and easy trading terms, secure warehousing facilities, efficient and reliable logistic and supply chain management, service to both regional and rural areas, direct customer shipments, top-line customer service, and access to our new Scholastic eCommerce B2B Reseller Portal.

Our people are our real point of difference. Scholastic manages an expansive front-line sales force of dedicated key Account Managers servicing major retail chains, corporate IT&T solution providers, commercial resellers, Apple channel partners, independent and education channel partners nationally. Maintaining high customer touch and regular call cycles, our Account Managers support resellers with in-depth product knowledge and industry expertise. Scholastic provides resellers with additional support via its Customer Service Call Centre, order processing, product management, and specialist licensing teams.

Education is who we are. Scholastic ensures educators and students have access to the latest curriculum-enhancing products available. By learning and using the same tools as industry professionals students have the ability to explore new and progressive career paths. Scholastic specialises in introducing products at the elementary level and allowing these products to become lifelong recognised brands. To achieve this, Scholastic works together with a national network of certified education resellers that support students, schools, universities and education departments across Australia. Scholastic is also directly involved with schools through its Book Clubs, Book Fairs, Book Trade, ASO and Education divisions.

• Customised business development mapping
• Retail, commercial, Apple and education channel-specific programs
• Marketing Development Fund and rebate programs
• Vendor certification and training
• Lead referral / Greenfield incentives
• Dedicated Account Management

• Efficient and reliable distribution to regional and rural areas of Australia
• Fully integrated Customer Service, CRM, logistics and supply chain operations
• Scholastic e-Commerce B2B Reseller Portal
• Customer Service Centre (Monday-Friday 8am to 5pm)
• Dedicated Volume Software Licensing Team
• Fast Software Quoting Service
• Drop-ship service & same-day shipping (orders placed before 2pm EST)
• Competitive reseller margins
• Easy trading terms
• Education Specialist

Scholastic offers partners trading accounts on application. Trading account credit facilities include VISA, MasterCard, direct deposit and EFT. Phone and online credit card ordering is also available for cash accounts.

The Scholastic e-Commerce B2B Portal equips resellers with the tools they need to make ordering simple. Scholastic retail products are now available to purchase online – just add them to your shopping cart and go. With 4-level security every user is unique and every access point defined. Cross-organisation reporting enables resellers to view online purchasing, check the status of orders and backorders, price and availability, shipping and ETAs – all in real time. Resellers can also use our License Ordering system for complex licensing support. Fast and accurate quoting for all products is available too. Straightforward and easy trading – another Value-Added service from Scholastic.

Become an online partner today and gain exclusive access to new product releases and promotions, visit www.scholastic.com.au/resellers

Scholastic Australia supports major retail, commercial, Apple, independant and education channel partners specialising in IT&T markets nationally.

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Contact Scholastic Customer Service customer_service@scholastic.com.au