Chapter 10 Flashcards
Supply chain
A system of efficiently and effectively producing, making and getting products to end-users
Supply chain management
Managing upstream and downstream value-added flows of materials, final goods, and related information among suppliers, the company, resellers and final consumers
Marketing logistics (physical distribution)
The tasks involved in planning, implementing and controlling the physical flow of materials and final goods from points of use to meet the needs of customers at a profit
Value delivery network
The company, suppliers, distributors and ultimately, customers who ‘partner’ with each other to improve the performance of the entire system
Services marketing logistics
Coordinating non-material activities needed to provide a service in a cost-effective way and with the quality expected
Supply chain trade-offs
The trade-offs in costs areas involved when deciding on the service level the organisation will offer customers
Distribution centre
Large and highly automated warehouse designed to receive goods from various plants and suppliers, take orders, fill them efficiently, and deliver goods to the retail owner of the centre as quickly as possible
Intermodal transportation
Combining two or more modes of transportation
Marketing channel (distribution channel)
A set of interdependent organisations involved in the process of making a product or service available to users
Channel levels
A layer of intermediaries who perform some work in bringing the product and its ownership closer to the final buyer
Direct marketing channel
A marketing channel that has no intermediary levels
Channel conflict
Disagreements among marketing channel members on goals, roles and rewards - that is, on who should do what and for what rewards
Conventional marketing channel
A channel consisting of one or more independent producers, wholesalers and retailers, each a separate business seeking to maximise its own profits, perhaps even at the expense of profits for the system as a whole
Vertical marketing network
A distribution channel structure in which producers, wholesalers and retailers act as a unified network; one channel member owns the others, has contracts with them, or wields so much power that they all cooperate
Corporate vertical marketing network
A vertical marketing network that combines successive stages of production and distribution under single ownership; channel leadership is established through common ownership
Contratual vertical marketing network
A vertical marketing network in which independent firms at different levels of production and distribution join together through contracts
Administered vertical marketing network
A vertical marketing network that coordinates successive stages of production and distribution, not through common ownership or contractual ties but through the size and power of one of the parties
Horizontal marketing network
A channel arrangement in which two or more companies at one level join together to follow a new marketing opportunity
Multichannel distribution network
A multi channel distribution system in which a single firm sets up two or more marketing channels to reach one or more marketing segments
Disintermediation
The removal of marketing channel intermediaries by goods or services producers, or the displacement of traditional resellers by new and different types of intermediaries
Retailing
All activities involved in selling goods or services directly to final consumers for their personal use, non-business use