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What are the basic strategic questions you need to ask when try to reduce distribution costs?
- What role should distribution play in the firm’s overall objectives and strategies?
- What role should distribution play in the marketing mix?
- How should the firm’s marketing channels be designed to achieve its distribution objectives?
- What kinds of channel members should be selected to meet the firm’s distribution objectives?
- How can the marketing channel be managed to implement the firm’s channel design effectively and efficiently on a continuing basis?
What is a distribution channel?
Definition:
The complete sequence of marekting organizations involved in bringing a product from the producer to the customer;
- A system of interdependency within a set of organizations;
- A system that facilitates the exchange process
- Make a product or service availabe for use or consumption by the consumer or business user.
What does a channel involve?
- Conventional channel:
- Loosely aligned, autonomous organizations that carry out a trade relationship
- Vertical marketing systems
- Tightly organized systems coordinated by ownership of one member, legal agreements, or the power of one member.
What is a distribution center?
A large, highly automated warehouse designed to receive goods from various plants and suppliers, take orders, fill them efficiently, and deliver goods to customers as quickly as possible.
E.g.: high-tech distribution centers: Amazon employs teams of super-retrievers to keep its fulfillment centers humming
What are the functions of a distribution channel?
Channel members add value by bridging the major time, place and possession gaps that separate goods and services from those who use them.
Functions of the channel are:
- financing,
- Information
- Promotion
- risk taking
- matching,
- Negotiation
- physical distribution
What are general functions of distribution?
- Logistic function (overcoming distance between provider and customer)
- Payment function (collection from customer and securing return flows to provider)
- Range function (presenting the product in a range and integrating the product into a saleable output system, for example if ski boots are integrated into skiing equipment)
- Acquisition function (acquiring customers through direct contact and reaching as many customers as possible)
- Experience function and further customer value functions (by designing purchase as an experience and offering other usage components such as the opening of social networks)
- Service function (delivery and installation or maintenance)
What do you mean by the statement "Distribution channels become marketing channels"?
Interdependent organizations that help make a product or service available for use or consumption Channel decisions
- Affect every other marketing decision
- Can lead to competitive advantage
- May involve long-term commitments to other firms
What are the structural aspecs of designing a channel?
- Length of distribution
- i.e. number of intermediaries
- Breadth of distribution
- E.g., whether to distribute through a selective or intensive network of retailers.
Describe the elements of the lenght of distribution channels
Channel level is a layer of intermediaries that performs some work in bringing the product and its ownership closer to the final buyer.
The length of the channel is determined by number of intermediary levels
- Direct marketing channel, is a marketing channel that has no intermediary levels.
- Indirect marketing channel is a marketing channel containing one or more intermediary levels.
What components are there in channel breadth? Describe them.
Number of intermediaries: channel breadth
- Intensive distribution
- Products stocked in as many outlets as possible
- A marketing strategy under which a company sells through as many outlets as possible, so that the consumers encounter the product virtually everywhere they go: supermarkets, drug stores, gas stations, and the like. (dove shampoo)
- Exclusive distribution
- Producer gives only a limited number of dealers the exclusive right to distribute ist products in theri territories
- Exclusive distribution is an agreement between a supplier and a retailer granting the retailer exclusive rights within a specific geographical area to carry the supplier's product (rolex)
- Selective distribution
- Use of several intermediaries to carry a company's products
- Selective distribution involves selling a product at select outlets in specific locations. (mac book)
What happens when there is no channel management?
Conflict occurs.
- Horizontal conflict occurs among firms at the same level of the cannel (i.e. retailer to retailer)
- Vertical conflict occurs between different levels of the same channel (i.e. wholesaler to retailer)
What is the power of a channel?
Power withing the channel.
The power wielded by a channel steward is usually influence. Acquiring influence means stewards understand that the efforts of all intermediaries are interdependent eg. if one fails, the customers’ needs may not be met.
There are different types of power.
The power associated with having a unique product/technology or brand (e.g. apple) or the power tied to market access and intelligence (distributors and retailers usually have this type of power) (e.g. walmart)
What is a vertical marketing system?
- Vertical marketing system (VMS) is one in which the main members of a distribution channel--producer, wholesaler, and retailer--work together as a unified group in order to meet consumer needs. One channel member owns the others, has contracts with them, or has so much power that they all cooperate.
What is a channel level?
Channel level: A layer of intermediaries that performs work in bringing the product and ist ownership closer to the final buyer
- Direct marketing channel: no intermediary levels
- Indirect marketing channels: one or more intermediary levels
What is a multichannel distribution system?
What is a horizontal marketing systems, give the example of star alliance (plain company)
Star alliance consists of 27 airlines "working in harmony" with shared branding and marketing to smooth and extend each member's global air travle capabilities.
When do you change channel organization?
Occurs when product or service producers cut out marketing channel intermediaries or wen radically new types of channel intermediaries displace traditional one.
A major trend is toward disintermediation. Product and service producers are bypassing intermediaries and going direclty to final buyers. New types of channel intermediaries are emerging to displace traditional ones.
Define Disintermediation
Disintermediation is the cutting out of marketing channel intermediaries by producers or the displacement of traditional resellers by new intermediaries.
Streaming music services such as Spotify are rapidly disintermediating both traditional music-store retailers and even music download services such as iTunes.
What is a Flagship store?
The most successful flagship stores share common key elements. Each store is usually the largest one in a retailer's chain and is located in a prestigious location, especially in areas where there are upscale customers, and it stocks a more complete range of products. The design and location of the flagship store is determined by the combination of financial considerations, brand identity and brand strategy objectives.
It’s tempting to see these stores as shops. Yes, they often provide a shopping function (which in itself differentiates them from pure-play concept stores) but the best flagships add a new dimension of physicality to a brand. They define in materials, aesthetics and by location how a brand wants to be seen in the world. At some level they complement the expansive digital presences of today’s global brands. They can also be an effective countering strategy in sectors where there is an increasing trend towards direct and/or online channels. They provide a new reason to shop live.
What is a concept store?
It is a shop that sells a carefully curated and unique selection of products that connect to an overarching theme. Often they evoke a lifestyle that appeals to a specific target audience – they are inspirational. Handpicked products are pulled together from different brands and designers, and they usually span different lines, such as fashion, beauty and homewares. In addition, the display mixes these lines and products together in an attractive fashion.
Concept stores are about discovery and experience. So the products and design tend to change regularly to keep telling that story in new and interesting ways. Many of them offer extra experiential elements such as a café or events space, which help build a community around the lifestyle they embody.
What is a Franchise - concept?
Franchise:
- by contract regulated cooperation between two
- Legally independent corporations: The Franchise donor
- Allows the Franchise taker the usage against a fee
- Services, products, systems, brand, etc. .
Indicators:
- Unified appearance in the market place
- Direction and control system for assurance of conform brand and system usage including sanctions and penalties
- Franchise-Taker is operating on own risk and contracting with clients as a legal entity on its own and uses the brand paying the franchise fee.
What are components of marketing logistics (physical distribution)
Planning, implementing, and controlling the physical flow of materials, final goods, and related information from points of origin to consumption
Customer-centered logistics: Marketplace backwards to the factory or sources of supply
- Outbound logistics
- Inbound logistics
- Reverse logistics
What are upstream and downstream partner of supply chains?
and what are the components of the supply chain management?
What is the goal of marketing logistics?
Marketing logistics - outbound logistics, inbound logistics, and reverse logistics
The goal of marketing logistics is to deliver a targeted level of customer service at the least cost.
Logistics functions include
- Warehousing
- Inventory management
- Transportation
- Logistics information management
Major logistics functions - warehousing, inventory management, transportation, and logistics information management. Integrated supply chain management Third-party logistics (3PL) providers
What do you understand under warehousing?
Storage warehouses store goods for moderate to long periods. Distribution centers are large, highly automated warehouses that receive goods, take orders, fill them, and deliver goods to customers.
What is important in inventory management?
Should be done in a cost effective and profitable manner
- Just-in-time logistics systems
- Radio frequency identification (RFID), smart tag technology, gives the physical location of a product.
What are factors affected by choice of transportation?
Factors affected by choice of transportation
- Pricing of products
- Delivery performance
- Condition of goods
- Customer satisfaction
Modes
- Trucks, railroads, water carriers, pipelines, air carriers, and the Internet
Multimodal transportation
- Combining two or more modes of transportation
- Piggyback, fishyback, trainship, and airtruck
What does the logistics information management do?
Flows of information closely linked to channel performance Information can be shared and managed through
- Electronic data interchange (EDI)
- Vendor-managed inventory (VMI)
What does integrated logistics management do?
Emphasizes teamwork both inside the company and among all the marketing channel organizations
- Forming cross-functional teams inside the firm
- Building logistics partnerships
- Outsourcing to third-party logistics providers for functions required to get a client’s product to market
What are distributiono ratios KPIs?
- Numeric distribution
- In how many retail branches am I present?
- 100 branches carry our product category
- 40 branches carry our product
- This indicates a numeric distribution of 40%
- (Amount of branches that carry our product x 100)/(total amount of branches in Region / CH)
- In how many retail branches am I present?
- Weighted distribution
- Includes turnover/level of sales in branches, where my product is available
- E.g. 40 | 80 (40 numeric distributions, | 80 weighted distribution
- Interpretation: my product is available in 40% of all possible branches that carry the product category analysed. Those 40% (of total branches) actualize 80% of the total turnover achieved in the corresponding product category.
- Conclusion: good overall distributionjkedfl566
- Distribution factor
- Weighted distribution/numeric distribution = factor
- A factor under 1.0 indicates that the analysed product is mainly available in branches with turnover below average
- A factor of 1,0 tells us that the analysed product is in all categories of branches equally strong present.
- A factor above 1,0 indicates that the product analysed is sold in more top selling branches than in branches with weak turnover.
What are trends in retailing?
- New retail forms and combinations – multi channel becomes omni channel
- Growth of intertype competition
- Competition between store-based and non-store-based retailing
- Showrooming with cross-channel opportunities
- Growth of giant retailers
- Decline of middle market retailers
- Growing investment in technology
- Global presence of major retailers
What are parts of a corporate identity?
Vison and Mission (Basics
- Corporate image (external)
- Corporate behaviour
- Corporate culture (beliefs)
- Corporate design (visualization)
- Corporate communications
- Corporate advertising
What are challenges for outside communications?
Factors changing the face of today's marketing communications:
- Changing consumers
- Changing marketing strategies
- Advancements in digital technology
- Noise
- Multiple information sources about the firm
- Competitive communications
- Evolving communications technologies
- The regulators
- Public perception of communications techniques.
What are challenges a company faces with the inside communication when proposing something new?
- We don't need it
- We've already done that
- It's an unnecessary expense
- We need different messages for different audiences?
What components are there in corporate & marketing communication. How are they connected and what are the differences?
Promotional Communication = Marketing Communication
- Advertising
- Promotion
- Sponsoring
- Sales
- Direct marketing
- Online marketing
Corporate communication
- Internal communication
- Public relations
- Media relations
- Investor relations
- Employer communication
- General public relations
Customer and Employee communicate with interactive communication.
Employee and Corporation communicate over internal communication
Corporation and Customer communicate over external communication.
What is the new in marketing communications model?
• Marketers reach smaller consumer segments in interactive and engaging ways.
• Mix of traditional mass media and a wide array of online, mobile, and social media.
• Content marketing managers create, inspire and share brand messages and conversations.
Sketch the general communication process and marketing communication process. What are the main components of it?