CASE STUDY
Bringing Six Suppliers Onto the Same Page with Editorial Central
Neelanjan Sinha
VP – Product & Technology
One of our customers, a publisher that relies on six production suppliers to keep more than 1,400 journals publishing on schedule, had a frustrating challenge.
Each of their suppliers checked accepted manuscripts in their own way, with no common standard. Every gap meant follow-ups, rework, and another delay on the way to publication. With submission volumes rising rapidly, the problem became more urgent.
Six Suppliers On The Same Page
We helped the publisher set one standard for all six suppliers and caught problems before production began.
The result was better author satisfaction, faster time to publication, and a clear path to growth for the journals.
How it Worked
1. One standard, owned by the publisher
Editorial Central applied the publisher’s own rules to every manuscript, across six suppliers.
2. Catching issues early
The checks run before a supplier receives the manuscript, before production begins, and when a missing element is still easier to fix.
3. No extra work for suppliers
Results arrive as structured data within the systems suppliers already use, as clear requirements before their next step, so adopting the standard costs them nothing new.
Why it Worked
The suppliers stayed the same, but they were brought into the fold of one common standard. Authors now see cleaner proofs with fewer corrections to make. The publisher gets consistent quality across all 1,400+ journals, whichever supplier does the work. Suppliers get clear requirements, with no new tools or steps. And production spends less time on follow-ups, so manuscripts keep moving towards publication.
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