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Chapter09 B2B
Management Chapter 9
3rd edition
Sustaining Reseller
Partnerships
Section IV:
Delivering Value
Fulfilling Supplier
Commitments Enhancing
Ensuring that
Interfirm
Fulfilling Reseller Value is Delivered
Coordination
Commitments
Alignment:
Goal congruence exists among partner firms’
self-interests
Degree to which complementary resources and
capabilities enable partner firms to capitalize on
marketplace opportunities
GMROI
Average
Gross Margin
÷ Average
Inventory
Average Average
GMROR
Gross Margin ÷ Accounts
Receivables
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Strategic Cost Management (SCM):
4-Step Approach
1. Divide organization’s cost into
Activity costs (order processing; selling costs)
Non-activity costs (advertising, trade shows)
2. Subdivide and classify these costs as:
Channel-related or
Specific reseller-related costs
3. Trace each cost back to individual channels or
resellers
4. Estimate revenues channels or resellers
generate and then construct direct costing
income statements
Contribution
Margin
Sales – Variables Costs
Net
Marketing
Contribution _ Controllable Marketing
Margin Fixed Costs
Contribution
Quantity or
Designed to motivate reseller to buy in large quantities and
Volume
store local inventory (box loads, truckloads, and rail carloads)
Discount
Encouragement to pay for goods immediately
Payment
2/10/net 30 (2% reduction of invoice price paid within 10
Discount
days)
Functional Allowance
Supplier pays reseller set percent off the reseller buy
price
Fee-for-Service
Supplier pays its reseller partners a prespecified
amount
On Retainer
Amount of technical service days/hours expected
from distributor partner for customer service (paid
whether service is provided or not)
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Responsive Adjustment to Joint Annual Plan
Capabilities-Sharing Agreements
• Superior service of one channel member substitutes for the
sub par service of another
• Channel members receive appropriate compensation for
sharing their superior service capabilities