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Combining two or more modes of transportation

What is Intermodal Transportation?

100

Designing effective marketing channels by analyzing consumer needs, setting channel objectives, identifying major channel alternatives, and evaluating them

What is Marketing Channel Design?

100

Stocking the product in as many outlets as possible

What is Intensive Distribution?

100

Giving a limited number of dealers the exclusive right to distribute the company's products in their territories

What is Exclusive Distribution?

100

The use of more than one, but fewer than all, of the intermediaries who are willing to carry the company's products

What is Selective Distribution?

200

A set of interdependent organizations that help make a product or service available for use or consumption by the consumer or business user

What is Marketing Channel (or distribution channel)?

200

A layer of intermediaries that performs some work in bringing the product and its ownership closer to the final buyer

What is Channel Level?
200

A marketing channel that has no intermediary channels

What is Direct Marketing Channel?

200

Channel containing one or more intermediary levels

What is Indirect Marketing Channel?

200

Disagreement among marketing channel members on goals, roles, and rewards- who should do what and for what rewards

What is Channel Conflict?

300

The network made up of the company, suppliers, distributors, and ultimately customers who "partner" with each other to improve the performance of the entire system in delivering customer value

What is Value Delivery Network?

300

A distribution channel structure in which producers, wholesalers, and retailers act as a unified system. One channel member owns the others, has contacts with them, or has so much power that they all cooperate

What is Vertical Marketing System (VMS)?

300

A vertical marketing system that coordinates successive stages of production and distribution, not through common ownership or contractual ties, but through the size and power of one of the parties

What is Administered VMS?

300

A vertical marketing system that combines successive stages of production and distribution under single ownership- channel leadership is established through common ownership

What is Corporate VMS?

300

A vertical marketing system in which independent firms at different levels of production and distribution join together through contracts to obtain more economies or sales impact than they could achieve alone

What is Contractual VMS?

400

A channel consisting of one or more independent producers, wholesalers, and retailers, each a separate business seeking to maximize its own profits, even at the expense of profits for the system as a whole

What is Conventional Distribution Channel?

400

A contractual vertical marketing system in which a channel member, called a franchisor, links several stages in the production-distribution process

What is Franchise Organization?

400

A channel arrangement in which two or more companies at one level join together to follow a new marketing opportunity

What is Horizontal Marketing System?

400

A distribution system in which a single firm sets up two or more marketing channels to reach one or more customer segments

What is Multichannel Distribution System?

400

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

What is Distribution Center?

500

Selecting, managing, and motivating individual channel members and evaluating their performance over time

What is Marketing Channel Management?

500

Planning, implementing, and controlling the physical flow of materials, final goods, and related information from points of origin to points of consumption to meet customer requirements at profit

What is Marketing Logistics (or physical distribution)?

500

Managing upstream and downstream value-added flows of materials, final goods, and related information among suppliers, the company, resellers, and final customers

What is Supply Chain Management?

500

The logistics concept that emphasizes teamwork, both inside the company and among all the marketing channel organizations, to maximize the performance of the entire distribution system

What is Integrated Logistics Management?

500

The cutting out of marketing channel intermediaries by product or service producers, or the displacement of traditional resellers by radical new types of intermediaries

What is Disintermediation?