Chapter 12 Flashcards
Individuals and firms involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by consumers or industrial users
Marketing Channel
Any intermediary between manufacturer and end user
Middleman
Any intermediary with legal authority to act on behalf of the manufacturer
Agent or broker
An intermediary who sells to other intermediaries, usually to retailers; term usually aplies to consumer markets
Wholesaler
An intermediary who sells to consumers
retailer
An imprecise term, usually used to describe intermediaries who perform a variety of distributive functions
distributor
What are the three types of functions marketing channel intermediaries perform?
Transactional Functions
Logistical Function
Facilitating Function
Purchasing products for resale or as an agent for supply of a product
buying
Contacting potential customers, promoting products, and seeking orders
selling
Risk taking
Assuming business risks in the ownership of inventory that can become obsolete or deteriorate
Buying, selling, and risktaking are
transactional functions
Assorting, Storing, Sorting, Transporting
logistical functions
Financiing, grading, arketing info and research
facilitating function
What are the four ways intermediaries create value for customers
time, place, forum, and possession
having a product or service when you want it
time utility
having a product or service available where you want it
place utility
making a product more appealing to buyers
form utilities
efforts by intermediaries to help buyers take possession of a product or service
possession utility
a channel in which the producer and ultimate consumers deal diretly with each other
direct channel
a channel in which intermediaries are inserted between the producer and consumer
indirect channel
When an indirect channel contains a producer, a retailer, and consumer what is likely to be true?
most common when a retailer is large and can buy in large quantities from a producer, or when the cost of inventory makes it too expensive to use a wholesaler (toyota)
If a indirect channel contains a producer, a wholesaler, a retailer and a consumer what is probably true?
low-cost, low unit value item
If the chain has an agent wholesaler retailer,
many small manufacturers and many small retailers
When are direct channels used for business products?
When buyers are large and well defined, he sales effort requires extensive negotiations, and the products are of high unit value and require hands-on expertise
If a marketing channel for business products uses an industrial distributor,
the industrail distributor performs a variety of marketing channel functions including selling, stocking, delivering, and financing
emploring the internet to make products and services available for consumption or use by consumers or organizational buyers
electronic marketing channels