This mode of transportation is used to carry heavy, bulky goods.
What is rail carrier?
100
This activity protects products, makes products more appealing to consumers, and makes products easier to ship or store.
What is packaging?
100
The process of coutning and checking goods as they are received.
What is receiving?
100
To make sure that the right product is at the right place at the right time for purchase is the goal of this.
What is the goal of distribution?
100
A philosophy of conducting business that is based on the belief that all business activities should be aimed toward satisfying customer wants and needs while achieving company goals.
What is the marketing concept?
200
The fastest and most expensive mode of transportation, often used for time-sensitive shipments.
What is air carrier?
200
The act of moving anything from one place to another.
What is transportation?
200
Enclosing products in appropriate wrapping or containers.
What is packaging?
200
The most expensive part of distribution is.
What is transportation?
200
The activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large
What is marketing?
300
Can only carry liquids or gases.
What is pipeline?
300
This activity involves receiving products, sorting products, and assembling shipments
What is stock handling?
300
Categorizing goods by type, stock number, or other identifing characteristics.
What is sorting?
300
Moving or transferring the ownership of goods or services from producers to consumers is an activity of this.
What is distribution?
300
The combination of the four elements of marketing—product, place, promotion, and price
What is the marketing mix?
400
Used to carry a wide variety of goods and is mode that we see most often.
What is motor carrier?
400
Placing goods in safe locations until they are needed or are ready to be sold.
What is warehousing?
400
Gathering together goods requested from within the company or by outside customers.
What is assembling shipments?
400
Factors important in choosing a tranportation system for a company's products are the products, the distance, the customer preference, and this.
What is time limits?
400
This function links producers to consumers.
What is channel management?
500
The slowest and cheapest mode of transportation.
What is water carrier?
500
Often called the watchdog of the distribution system, this activity keeps tracks of what has been sold, how much stock is on hand, and how much is in an order.
What is inventory control?
500
Companies use packaging for these three reasons.
What is protects products, make products appealing to customers, and makes shipping and storing easier.
500
The scope of distribution includes deciding how a company will distribute their products. These are the two channels of distribution a product can be distributed.
What are direct and indirect channels of distribution?
500
A potential group of customers that has an unfulfilled desire, financially able, and are willing to satisfy that desire.