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Marketing Channels. Fall 2006. You gotta love trees…. 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.
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Marketing Channels Fall 2006
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
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