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MKT 309 Chapter 15

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Marketing Channel   individuals and firms involved in process of making a product available for use or consumption by consumers  
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Agent or broke   Intermediary with legal authority to act on behalf of the manufacturer  
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Wholsealer   Intemediary who sells to other intemediaries, usually to retailers  
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Retailer   Intermediary who sells to consumers  
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Distributor   Intermediaries who perform a variety of distribution functions, including selling, maintaining inventories, extending credit, etc  
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Dealer   Imprecise term that could be any intermediary  
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Transactional Function   buying, selling and risk taking because they stock merchandise in anticipation of sales  
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Logistical Function   gathering, storing, and dispersing of products  
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Direct Channel (O-Level Channel)   Manufacturer and ultimate consumers deal directly with each other  
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Indirect Channel (1/2-Level Channel)   Intermediaries are inserted between producer and consumers and perform numerous channel functions  
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Industrial Distributor   Performs a variety of marketing channel functions, including selling, stocking, delivering a full product and financing-Like wholesales in consumer channels  
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Electronic Marketing Channels   Employ the internet to make goods and services available for consumption or use by consumers or business buyers  
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Direct Marketing Channels   allow consumers to buy products by interacting with various advertising media without a face to face meeting with a salesperson  
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Multichannel Marketing   blending of different communication and delivery channels that are mutually reinforcing  
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Mutually Reinforcing   attracting, retaining, and building relationships with consumer who shop and buy in traditional intermediaries and online  
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Dual Distribution   arrangement firm reaches differnt buyers by employing two or more differnt types of channels for the same basic product  
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Strategic Channel Alliances   one firm's marketing channel is used to sell another firm's products  
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Merchant Wholesales   independently owned firms that take title to the merchandise they handle  
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General (Full Line) Merchandise wholesalers   carry broad assortment of merchandise and perform all channel functions  
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Specialty Merchandise (Limited Line) wholesalers   offer narrow range of products but have extensive assortment within the product lines carried  
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Cash and Carry Wholesalers   take title to merchandise but sell only to buyers who call them, pay cash, and furnish own transportation  
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Drop Shippers (Desk Jobbers)wholesalers   wholesalers that own merchandise they sell but do not physically handle, stock, or deliver it  
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Manufacturer's Agents (MANA)   work for several producers and carry non competitive, complementary merchandise in exclusive territory  
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Selling Agnets   represent single producer and reponsible for entire marketing function of that producer  
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Brokers   independent firms or individuals whose principal function is to bring buyers and sellers together to make sales  
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Manufacterer's branch office   carries a producer's inventory and performs the functions of full service wholesaler  
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Manufacturer's sales office   does not carry inventory, typically performs only sales functions  
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Vertical Marketing Systems (VMS)   Profit Consolidation Professonally managed and centrally coordinated marketing channels designed to achieve channel economies and maximum marketing impact  
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Corporate Vertical Marketing System   combination of successive stages of production and distribution under a single ownership  
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Forward integration   producer owns the intemediaries at next level of channel  
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Backward integration   Retailer owns manufacturing operation  
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Contractual Vertical Marketing System   independent production and distribution firms integrate their efforts on a contractual basis to obtain greater functional economies than if they were alone  
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Wholesaler Sponsered voluntary Chains   wholesaler develops contract with small independent retailers to standardize business  
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Retailer Sponsored cooperatives   exist when small, independent retailers form an organization that operates a wholesale facility cooperatively  
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Franchizing   contractual arrangement between parent company and a firm that allows the firm to operate certain type of business under parent company  
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Man Sponsored Retail Franchise system   manufacturer dictates selling practices of finished product for retailer  
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Man Sponsored Whoelsale Systems   parent company dictates selling practices of parts of product for retailer  
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Service Sponsored Retail Franchise systems   firms have desigend unique approach to performance and wish to profit by selling th efrancise to others  
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Service Sponsored Franchise Systems   franchisors license individuals or firms to dispense a service under a trade name and specific guidelines  
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Administered Vertical Marketing Systems   achieve coordination at successive stages of production and distribution by size and influence of one channel rather than through ownership  
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Channel Partnership   consists of agreements and procedures among channel members for ordering and physically distributing a producer's products through the channel to consumer  
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Intensive Distribution (Convenience Goods)   firm tries to place its products and services in as many outlets as possible  
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Exclusive Distribution (Specialty Goods)   firms are particular in where their products are placed  
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Selective Distributions (Shopping Goods)   frim selects a few retail outlets in specific demographic they wish to target  
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Keiretsu   bond producers and intermediaries together  
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Channel Conflict   arises when one channel member believes another channel member is engaged in behavior that prevents it form achieving its goals  
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Vertical conflict   between different levels in marketing channel  
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Disintermediation   channel member bypasses another member and sells/buy products direct  
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Horizontal Conflict   occurs between intermediaries at the same level of channel  
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Channel Captain   channel member that coordinates directs and supports other channel members  
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Dual Distribution   manufacturer distributes through its own verticlaly integrated channel in competition with independent wholesalers and retailers that also sell its products  
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Exclusive dealing   when supplier requires channel members to sell only its products  
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Tying arrangements   supplier requires a distributor purchasing some products to buy others form the supplier  
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1-Level Channel   Manufacturer to Wholesaler/Retailer Hybrid to Consumer  
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2-Level Channel   Manufacturer to Wholesaler or Broker/Agent to Retailer to Customer  
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Truck Jobber   Limited Service Merchant Wholesaler that sells right off of Truck-Gives buyer method of Delivery  
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Rack Jobber   Wholesaler owns rack and charges on only what is sold off of rack  
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Horizontal Marketing System (HMS)   Buyout competitors to consolidate marketshare  
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Electronic Data Interface (EDI)   Computers ordering from other computers automated merchandise  
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Buying Co-Ops   Company's Cooperate to purchase materials at bulk to decrease per unit cost  
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EOQ   Economic Ordering Quotient  
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JIT   Just in time  
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VMI   Vendor Managed Inventory. Purchase 1000 units but only accept shipments in 100 unit increments.  
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