Chapter Twelve

Marketing Channels
and
Supply Chain Management
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 Supply Chains and the
Value Delivery Network
Value Delivery Network

Value delivery network is

the firm’s suppliers,
distributors, and
ultimately customers
who partner with each
other to improve the
performance of the
entire system

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 Supply Chains and the
Value Delivery Network
Supply Chain Partners

Upstream partners include raw material

suppliers, components, parts, information,
finances, and expertise to create a
product or service

Downstream partner/Intermediaries include

the marketing channels or distribution
channels that look toward the customer
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 The Nature and Importance of
Marketing Channels
Number of Channel Members

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 The Nature and Importance of
Marketing Channels
How Channel Members Add Value

Intermediaries offer producers greater

efficiency in making goods available to
target markets. Through their contacts,
experience, specialization, and scale of
operations, intermediaries usually offer
the firm more than it can achieve on its
own.
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 THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERMEDIARIES TO THE
MARKETING SYSTEM

• Risk Taking – Intermediaries share the risks with manufacturers by

purchasing goods that they have no guarantee of getting resold.
This provides finances for manufacturers to keep producing and
engaging in new product development
• Physical Distribution- Intermediaries physically move goods so that
they can get to a place where the final consumer can access them
• Matching – Intermediaries provide meeting spaces for
manufacturers and their target markets. For example. If I am
targeting lower income consumers, I can stock my brand at Cherish
in order to reach my specific target market
• Assortment and Variety- Intermediaries stock brands from several
different manufacturers giving the consumer the satisfaction of
choice
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 THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERMEDIARIES TO
THE MARKETING SYSTEM
• Information- Intermediaries provide information (e.g. sales
reports and customer data and marketing research
information) to manufacturers so that they can offer
greater value to customers and build stronger relationships.
They also provide information for consumers in their
information searches
• Intermediaries allow for time, place and ownership utility.
• Intermediaries assist manufacturers with promotions- e.g
shared advertising, instore displays and sampling events
• Intermediaries assist with financing so that consumers can
purchase the manufacturers goods e.g financing offered by
care dealerships.

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 Conventional Distributions Systems and
Channel Conflict
Conventional distribution systems consist of one or more
independent producers, wholesalers, and retailers.
In conventional systems there is little control over the other
members and no formal means for assigning roles and
resolving conflict.
Channel conflict occurs because each member of the channel or
marketing system is seeking to maximize its own profits at the
expense of the other members .
Vertical Conflict- Conflict between parties at different levels of
the channel
Horizontal Conflict-Conflict between parties at the same level
of the channel

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 Channel Behavior and Organization
Vertical Marketing Systems -ANSWER TO CHANNEL CONFLICT

Vertical marketing systems (VMSs) provide channel

leadership and consist of producers,
wholesalers, and retailers acting as a unified
system and consist of:
• Corporate marketing systems
• Contractual marketing systems
• Administered marketing systems

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 Channel Behavior and
Organization
Vertical Marketing Systems
Corporate vertical
marketing system
integrates successive
stages of production
and distribution
under single
ownership

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 Channel Behavior and Organization
Vertical Marketing Systems

Contractual vertical marketing system consists of

independent firms at different levels of
production and distribution who join together
through contracts to obtain more economies or
sales impact than each could achieve alone. The
most common form is the franchise
organization.

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 Channel Behavior and Organization
Vertical Marketing Systems

Administered vertical marketing system has a

few dominant channel members without
common ownership. Leadership comes from
size and power.

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 Channel Behavior and Organization
Horizontal Marketing Systems

Horizontal marketing
systems are when two or
more companies at one
level join together to follow
a new marketing
opportunity. Companies
combine financial,
production, or marketing
resources to accomplish
more than any one
company could alone.

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 Channel Behavior and Organization
Multichannel Distribution Systems
Hybrid Marketing Channels

Multichannel Distribution systems (Hybrid

marketing channels) are when a single firm
sets up two or more marketing channels to
reach one or more customer segments

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 Channel Behavior and
Organization
Multichannel Distribution Systems

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 Channel Design Decisions
Identifying Major Alternatives

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 DISINTERMEDIATION

Disintermediation occurs
when product or service
producers cut out
intermediaries and go
directly to final buyers, or
when radically new types
of channel intermediaries
displace traditional ones

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 Marketing Logistics and
Supply Chain Management
Nature and Importance of Marketing Logistics

Marketing logistics (physical

distribution) involves planning,
implementing, and controlling
the physical flow of goods,
services, and related
information from points of
origin to points of consumption
to meet consumer
requirements at a profit

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 Marketing Logistics and
Supply Chain Management
Nature and Importance of Marketing Logistics

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 Marketing Logistics and
Supply Chain Management
Logistics Information Management

Logistics information management is the

management of the flow of information,
including customer orders, billing, inventory
levels, and customer data
• EDI (electronic data interchange)

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 Marketing Logistics and
Supply Chain Management
Major Logistics Functions

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