Marketing Channels
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Marketing Channels
Fall 2006
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Value Delivery Network
Company,
suppliers, distributors and
customers who partner to improve
system performance
A demand chain orientation: start
with the needs of customers
Marketing Channel
Interdependent
organizations
involved in the process of making a
product available for use
Think Efficiency and Effectiveness
Add a Distributor
And What Needs to be Done?
Information
– Research
– Promotion
Matching
and Assorting
Physical Distribution and Storage
Financing
Risk Taking
It is Not Always Easy: Channel
Conflict
Vertical
Conflict
Horizontal Conflict
Vertical Marketing Systems
Corporate
Channel
– Vertical Integration: wholly owned and
tapered
Contractual:
Coordinated
Administered
Channel Considerations
Types
of Intermediaries
– Company Sales Force, Manufacturer’s
Agents, and Industrial Distributors
Number
of Intermediaries
– Intensive distribution: Snickers
– Exclusive distribution: Rolls
– Selective distribution: Acura
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