Enhance Your Library Operations with Intelligent Material Management System™
Read below to discover how our Intelligent Material Management System™ (IMMS™) enhances your library operations and provides comprehensive control over collections, space, and float management. Designed to complement existing Integrated Library Systems (ILS), IMMS™ offers unprecedented transparency in material flow, allowing
Pick Up to 285 Items/Hour
Improve Display Circulation by up to 90%
60% Saved on Holds Management
What is IMMS™?
IMMS is a sophisticated library solution created to improve the organization of books, materials, and library space. It integrates seamlessly with an existing library system, offering an intelligent enhancement that monitors items, maximizes shelf efficiency, and simplifies processes such as book returns and managing reservations.
Why Choose IMMS™?
Boosted Circulation
Boosted Circulation: Real-time distribution allocates materials efficiently, increasing circulation while reducing staff time spent rebalancing collections.
Simplified Float Management
Real-time float management ensures balanced and attractive collections across all branches without manual rebalancing.
Enhanced Display Maintenance
Automatically replenishes popular displays, keeping them well-stocked and appealing.
Optimized Space Management
Intelligent lifecycle management maximizes shelf space and closed storage utilization.
Streamlined Processes
Automation of tasks like shelf reading and reshelving minimizes staff fatigue, freeing them for higher-priority activities.
All Controlled with an App
IMMS™ seamlessly integrates with existing ILS, automating data exchange for a paperless, efficient workflow. Libraries benefit from fewer errors, improved availability, and higher patron satisfaction.
The library’s daily logistics are managed through the IMMS™ app, which syncs with the cloud-based IMMS™ system in real time.
The app provides digital, updated picklists in walking order, reducing the time spent retracing steps or searching for items already picked by a colleague.
With the RFID/Barcode reader, all item movements are tracked, allowing staff to always know the exact location of each item—whether it is on a shelf, a trolley, a transport tote, or being moved between branches.
IMMS™ streamlines the workflow, allowing branch staff to directly shelve holds without handling individual items and preventing stock depletion. The app continuously tracks item locations, enhancing efficiency across the library.
Reasons To Implement IMMS™
Service to Your Community
- Automatically control the collections
in each branch - Spend time on people, not books
- Improved patron satisfaction
Leverage Modern Logistics
- Sophisticated, modern logistics integrated
into your ILS - Track and trace preventing loss of items
- Efficient storage management
Free Up Staff
- Save up to 40% on material handling
- Time spent on each circulated item is reduced to approx. 0.042 hours
- Pick rate in material hotel of up to 285 items/Hour
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Meet the IMMS™ Libraries
Helsinki City Libraries
One of the biggest benefits right from the beginning was paperless processes and batch handling. Time spent on handling items for shelving was cut in half and the time spent on holds or reservations was cut from 30 minutes per box to 5 minutes. Given that Helsinki processes around 50,000 totes per year this released a huge amount of staff time.
Aarhus Public Libraries
“The introduction of the sorter and self-service returns led to extensive change of workflows throughout the library, simplifying material handling leading to a drastic fall in work related injuries from afflicting almost 100% of the circulation desk staff to 0%.”
Susanne Hansen, Aarhus Public Libraries
