This document discusses marketing channels and channel design. It covers channel intermediaries like retailers, wholesalers, agents and brokers. Their functions are to provide specialization, overcome discrepancies in quantity, time and location, and provide contact efficiency. Channel structures can include direct, retailer, wholesaler or agent/broker models. Key factors that affect channel choices are market factors like target customers and competition, product factors like characteristics and fragility, and producer factors like capabilities and resources. The document provides an overview of important concepts in marketing channel and distribution channel design.
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ASSIGNMENT: Business Law (example of answer)Rofidah Azman
I got quite good mark for this assignment. I'd like to share with other fellow students the example of answers for the questions. There are of course rooms for improvement. Good luck!
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2. Slide Outline
Marketing channels
Channel intermediaries and their
function
Channel Structure
Channel strategy decision
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3. Marketing Channel/ Distribution
channel
A set of interdependent organizations
that help make a product or service
available for use or consumption by
the consumer or business user
A set of interdependent organizations
that ease the transfer of ownership as
products move from producer to
business user or consumer
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4. Types of Channel Intermediaries
1. RETAILER 2. MERCHANT 3. AGENT & BROKER
WHOLESALER
Buy products from Do not take any
Sell products mainly Manufacturers, and title on product.
for final users or Resells to business users Facilitate selling
Consumer market (government, wholesaler, Activities for
Or retailers) Producers
Takes title to product
Or stores
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5. Why Channel member are used?
1) Provide specialization and division of labor
2) Overcoming Discrepancies
Discrepancy of quantity
Temporal discrepancy
Spatial discrepancy
Discrepancy of assortment
3) Providing contact efficiency
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6. The Nature and Importance of
Marketing Channels
How Channel Members Add Value
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8. Channel Structure
(Business and Industrial Product)
Producer Producer Producer Producer Producer
Agents/ Agents/
broker broker
Industrial
distributor
Industrial
distributor
Government
Industrial User Buyer Industrial User Industrial user Industrial user
Direct Channel Direct channel Industrial Agent/broker Agent/ broker-
distributor channel industrial
distributor
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11. Factors Suggesting Type of
Wholesaling Intermediary to Use
Product characteristics
Product characteristics
Buyer considerations
Buyer considerations
Market characteristics
Market characteristics
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12. Factor Affecting Channel Choices
1. Market factors
-Target customer consideration
-Must consider the geographical/ location,
market size and level of competition
2. Product factors
-Nature of the products characteristics
-PLC
-Delicacy of the product
e.g: Perishable, fragile
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13. Factor Affecting Channel Choices
3. Producer factors
-Producers’ capabilities and
performance
-Managerial and financial
-Marketing resources
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Editor's Notes
Note to Instructor Channels perform the following functions: Information: Gathering and distributing marketing research and intelligence information about actors and forces in the marketing environment needed for planning and aiding exchange. Promotion: Developing and spreading persuasive communications about an offer. Contact: Finding and communicating with prospective buyers. Matching: Shaping and fitting the offer to the buyer’s needs, including activities such as manufacturing, grading, assembling, and packaging. Negotiation: Reaching an agreement on price and other terms of the offer so that ownership or possession can be transferred. Physical distribution: Transporting and storing goods. F inancing: Acquiring and using funds to cover the costs of the channel work. Risk taking: Assuming the risks of carrying out the channel work
Note to Instructor In any channel producers and intermediaries need to agree on price policies, conditions of sale, territorial rights, and services provided by each party.