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Set of firms and individuals that take title, or assist in transferring title, to the particular good or service as it moves from the producer to the consumer.
Channel Flows
Physical Flow
Title Flow
Payment Flow
Information Flow Promotion Flow
Channel Power
A channel members capacity to control or influence the behavior of other channel members
Channel Control
A situation that occurs when one marketing channel member intentionally affects another members behavior
Channel Leader
A member of a marketing channel that exercises authority/power over the activities of other members, also referred to as the Channel
Captain
Channel Conflict
A clash of goals and methods between distribution channel members
Horizontal
Conflict
Conflict
Channel Partnering
The joint effort of all channel members to create a supply chain that serves customers and creates a competitive advantage.
Channel Organisation
Conventional Marketing Systems
Highly
fragmented networks in which loosely aligned manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers have bargained with each other at arms length, negotiated aggressively over teams of sale, and otherwise behaved autonomously. entity seeks to maximise its own profits, even at the expense of maximising the profits for the system as a whole.
Each
Channel Organisation
Vertical Marketing Systems
Professionally managed and centrally programmed networks, pre-engineered to achieve operating economies and maximum market impact
Number of Intermediaries
Intensive Distribution
Exclusive Distribution Selective Distribution
Price Policy
Conditions of Sale
Territorial Rights
Mutual Services & Responsibilities
Wholesaling
All activities involved in selling goods and services to those buying for resale or business use.
Retailing
All business activities involved with the sale of goods and services to the final consumer for personal, family or household use.
Wholesaler Types
Merchant Wholesaler An institution that buys goods from manufacturers, takes title to goods, stores them, and resells and ships them. Agents and Brokers Wholesaling intermediaries who facilitate the sale of a product by representing channel member.
Types of Wholesalers
Merchant Wholesaler
Independently Owned Business that Takes Title to the Merchandise it Handles.
Brokers/ Agents
They Dont Take Title to the Goods, and They Perform Only a Few Functions.
Wholesalers Functions
Selling and
Warehousing Transportation Financing Risk bearing Market
information
Control of Outlets
Type of Store Cluster
Wheel of Retailing
The lifecycle of retailers, moving from an entry position with low prices to gain market share to eventually moving upscale with higher-quality products aimed at more affluent consumers.
Passage of time
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