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Supply Chain

Upstream partners Horizontal conflict


Downstream partners Supply chain & Channel conflict
Value Delivery Vertical conflict
networks

Value delivery network:


marketing organisation + suppliers +
distributors + customers
Conventional marketing channel:
Lack leadership & power, conflict...
Marketing Channels
(Distribution Channels)

Corporate VMN:
Production & distribution under single ownership...
Intermediaries Eg.
What is Place/
Channel
Marketing
channel/
W6. Behaviour &
Contractual VMN:
Channel
Functions of marketing
channel members:
Distribution PLACE Organisations
Vertical marketing
network (VMN):
Consists of independent firms at different
channel? levels of production & distribution...
Information A unified network Most common form: ............
Promotion Eg.
Contact The Nature of
Matching Marketing
Negotiation Administered VMN
Channels and
Physical distribution Has a few dominant channel members without
value creation
Financing Channel common ownership. Leadership comes form
Risk taking Organization/ size & power...
Distribution Eg.
Systems
Types of distribution channels
(of different lengths): Marketing Channel
1. Analysing consumer needs
Direct marketing channel: 0 intermediary Design Horizontal marketing network:
Indirect marketing channel: >1
4. Evaluating those alternatives More than 2 companies at one level join together to follow
intermediaries
a new marketing opportunity...
2. Setting channel objectives Eg.

3. Identifying major channel alternatives


*Distribution Strategy (based on number of marketing Multichannel Distribution network
intermediaries)
a) Intensive Distribution: ................
b) Selective Distribution: ..................
c) Exclusive Distribution: .......................

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