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Distribution Planning
Distribution Channels
Definitions
Examples
Abbreviations
100
Order processing, transportation, and inventory management.
What is Distribution Activities
100
A short Channel of distribution
What is "direct channel"?
100
The use of rail and truck
What is "piggybacking"
100
CO-OP composed of many independent retailers that join together to establish a wholesaling operation.
What is Retail cooperatives
100
EDI
What is "electronic data interchange"
200
Process of buying or handling merchandise, and reselling them to organizational users.
What is wholesaling
200
Number of intermediaries or levels in the channel distribution
What is "channel width"?
200
Products available in one outlet in a geographical area.
What is "exclusive distribution"?
200
Apple iTunes now sells goods through electronic channels directly to customers.
What is Direct Channel
200
JIT
What is "just in time"
300
Offers producers the advantage of being able to make goods and services readily available to target markets
What is an intermediary
300
Different kinds of intermediaries are used at the same level of the channel of distribution
What is Multi-Channeling
300
A wholesaler-initiated organization consisting of a group of independent retailers who agree to buy from a designated wholesaler.
What is "voluntary chain"?
300
Someone is paying a fee to use the Pita Pit Brand to open a store in Miramichi.
What is Franchising?
300
RFID
What is "radio frequency identification"
400
Agent/Broker Wholesaler Retailer Distributor Dealer Middleman
What is a type of intermediary?
400
Characteristics when making channel decision
What is "Customer Location, Product and service characteristics, Competition, Company resources,Intensity of distribution"
400
Moving goods using two or more modes of transportation
What is "intermodal transportation"?
400
Walmart's inventory arrives as soon as needed
What is just in time delivery (JIT)?
400
VMS
What is "vertical marketing system"
500
Indirect Channel
What is Manufacturer, Agent Broker, Wholesaler, Retailer, Consumer
500
12 retailers, 4 retailers, 1 retailer respectively
What is Intensive, Selective, Exclusive
500
Conflict that occurs when a channel member feels that another member at a different level is engaging in inappropriate conduct.
What is "vertical conflict"?
500
George Weston limited owns and operates each level of the distribution channel
What is Corporate VMS
500
PB
What is "piggyback"