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CHP 15 Marketing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Marketing Channel | consists of individuals and firms involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by consumers or industrial users. |
| Intermediary Middleman | between manufacturer and end-user markets |
| Intermediary Agent/Broker | legal authority to act on behalf of the manufacturer |
| Intermediary Wholesaler | sells to other intermediaries, usually retailers, term usually applies to consumer markets |
| Intermediary Retailer | sells to consumers |
| Intermediary Distributor | imprecise terms used to describe those who perform a variety of distribution functions such as selling, maintaining inventories, extending credit, and more. |
| Intermediary Dealer | more imprecise than distributor, can mean the same as distributor, retailers, and wholesaler |
| Transactional Function | buying (purchasing products for resale as an agent for supply of a product), selling (contacting potential customer, promoting products, seeking orders), and risk taking ( assuming business risk in the ownership of inventory) |
| Logistical Function | Assorting (creating product assortments), storing (assembling and protecting products at a convenient location), sorting (purchasing in large quantities and breaking into smaller ones), transporting (moving product to customers) |
| Facilitating Function | financing (extending credit to customers), grading (inspecting, testing, and judging products to assign quality grades), marketing info & research (provides info to both customers and suppliers, comparing competitive conditions and trends). |
| Marketing Channel for Consumer Goods, Direct | Producer to consumer |
| Marketing Channel for Consumer Goods, Indirect | Producer to retailers to consumers Producer to wholesalers to retailers to consumers Producer to agent to wholesalers to retailers to consumers |
| Marketing Channels for Business Goods, Direct | Producer to Industrial User |
| Marketing Channels for Business Goods, Indirect | Producer to industrial distributor to industrial user Producer to agents to industrial user Producer to agents to industrial distributors to industrial user |
| Digital Marketing Channels | Make products and services available to buyers, combine electronic and traditional intermediaries. Includes things like car rental, financial securities, and insurance |
| Multichannel Marketing | blending of different communication and delivery channels that are mutually reinforcing in attracting, retaining, and building relationships with consumers who shop and buy in traditional intermediaries and online. |
| Dual Distribution | reach different buyers by different channels |
| Vertical Marketing Sytems | professionally managed and centrally coordinated marketing channels designed to achieve channel economies and maximum marketing impact. |
| Intensive distribution | whereby a firm tries to place its products and services in as many outlets as possible. |
| Exclusive Distribution | only one retailer in a specific geographical area carries the firm’s products. |
| Selective Distribution | firm selects a few retailers in a specific geographical area to carry its products. |
| Buying Requirements | Information Convenience Variety Pre- or post sale service |
| Channel Conflicts | arises when one channel member believes another channel member is engaged in behavior that prevents it from achieving its goals. |
| Distribution | involves channel conflict that arises when a channel member bypasses another member and sells or buys products direct. |
| Logistics | consists of those activities that focus on getting the right amount of the right products to the right place at the right time at the lowest possible cost. |
| Supply chain | various firms involved in performing the activities required to create and deliver a product or service to ultimate consumers or industrial users. |