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Data Processing Services
The worlds leading supplier of information technology and services to the periodical distribution industry!  Beyond the basics of distribution, DPS is meeting the challenges of our changing marketplace through providing expertly engineered distribution systems to wholesalers for scan based trading, vendor managed inventory, electronic data interchange, verified pick 'n pack automation, route accounting and more.  Demographically tuned distribution, using a multitude of sell-thru efficiency aimed tools, including Direct Product Profit (DPP) analysis to grow profitable sales.

Data Processing Services, Inc. is a diversified international company with clients throughout the world. Major installations exist in Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, the Far East and the United States. Data Processing Services, Inc. has a suite of services and products for the periodical, retail, warehouse automation, EDI and Internet e-commerce industries. 

NGS600 Periodical Category
Management Systems

   
The right magazines in the right quantities, packed error free and delivered to the right places is solved by DPS!

Choosing a good periodical distribution system results in significant earning benefits! DPS provides robust flexible solutions for “Direct / Specialized Wholesaler”, Traditional Independent Regional/National Periodical Wholesaler, National Distributors, and Galley/Re-Ship Distributors required to meet today’s changed marketplace. These systems enable distribution and warehouse management for magazines, newspapers, books and general merchandise handling ALL aspects of product receiving, distribution, returns, customer account receivables, vendor account reconciliation, system document archiving, electronic data exchange, scan based trading, point of sale management, vendor managed inventory, and a huge selection of standard reporting along with special feature tool sets for ad-hoc reports writing, data export and customer data entry screen creation.

The complete suite of flexible solutions is appropriate for the smallest to the largest distributors. We have customers serving small island communities and seasonal demographics like Caribbean Periodical and Educational Wholesaler in Turks Caicos Islands to one of the largest direct distributors in all of North America, Source Interlink, plus all sizes in between from The News Group, L.P. to Reship operations like D-K News out of Augusta, GA whom order regulate and bill customers all over the United States.

Consumer Goods
Category Distribution

DPS distribution solutions work the way wholesalers and distributors work. Wholesale distributors supply products to their customers more quickly and more efficiently with our integrated invoicing, ordering, purchasing, inventory management, accounting and total warehouse management solutions. DPS distribution software is business management software that puts distributors in touch with the critical information needed to run their businesses.

Competitive wholesaling needs get met at DPS with inclusion of a robust Consumer Goods Supply Chain Management solution offering.  A backend server performs all the warehouse duties deploying receiving, put-away, order fulfillment, cross-docking, inventory, return handling, purchasing, etc.  The back-end server enables robust solutions for scanning, verified picking, shipping manifest automation and more.  A Web based front end provides for pre-order sales building, Order entry online, electronic order listing (PO's) submittals (EDI formats, Excel spreadsheet orders, etc.), product catalog with online sales, salesman interface, and mailing lists, etc.

Data Processing Services, Inc. provides a broad depth of products that can integrate with your existing business systems, or can be installed as a complete turn-key solution to transform your business processes to an efficient, profit based “supply chain management” distribution center!
 

Central Billing
and Marketing (CBM) 

One Retail Client Vendor through an alliance of multiple wholesale distribution partners are performing wholesale distribution logistics.

A DPS CBM (central billing and marketing) System performs the functions prerequisite for collection of charges and credits from servicing wholesalers, processing to consolidation for billing to chain, performing cash application from customer remittance, preparation and transmit of payment remittance with servicing wholesaler, collection of O/R for marketing reports and enables integrated Central EDI option; electronically formatting, translating and sending of AR transactions, plus UPC Price Change notification with chains.

Warehouse Automation
Warehouse Management Solutions

DPS warehouse solutions find bottom line earnings making rapid ROI (Return On Investment) realities at client facilities throughout the world.  Beginning with the DPS iPICK graphical paperless order fulfillment technology, our engineering staff consults with our partners and your staff to design successful state-of-the-art material handling and warehouse management systems that effectively and efficiently direct and control product flow into and out of your warehouse.

DPS offers cost effective, highly standardized modular conveyor and automation systems designed on standard components to make support and maintenance easy. Our machinery and conveyors use common off-the-shelf components universally shared across the product suite. 

Successful Material Handling System Integration requires a company with a broad combination of resources.  DPS in house controls, software and manufacturing provides us with a unique position in the industry.

Expert Partner

For more than 40 years, DPS has added advanced features for distributors and wholesalers in these industries: periodical distribution (magazines, newspapers, and books), consumer goods retail distribution centers, restaurant, hobby shop goods distribution, and more.