Unit 10: Channel Management

This is a small retailer offering items such as gas, snacks, soft drinks, and tobacco products.

An inventory system that means that the inventory level is kept low and resupplied as needed.

This is the fastest, but most expensive, mode of transportation:

Wal-Mart owns trucks to transport its goods for their stores. This is an example of a:

Home Depot is a retailer that is focused on one type of merchandise and offers a wide selection

This is the process of efficiently delivering products to customers.

Businesses who do not own the goods they sell but act as intermediaries

Channel management is a marketing activity associated with the marketing mix element of:

__ involves the locations and methods used to make the product available to customers.

This brings the sales message to customers using mail, e-mail, a website, or social media.

With a farmer's market, the producer sells the product straight to the final consumer:

Distribution has always been the most challenging and complicated part of the marketing mix.

Carries 9% of the tonnage moved, carries heavy, bulky items like grain, minerals, lumber, coal.

Uses standardized shipping containers and multiple modes of transportation:

Products often move through very long channels of distribution.

Today, 90% of global trade is seaborne and is shipped using 700 million of these:

Most frequently used form of freight transportation and the most flexible.

The amount of money left for buying goods. 

Mary Kay Cosmetics is a company that sells products directly to the consumer:

A wholesaler who takes title to the goods they sell and provides many services.

It is likely that most products will be transported using only one method of transportation.

This is the path a product takes from the producer to the ultimate consumer:

The ancient trade route linking China with the West. Carried goods between Rome and China.

O’Reilly auto parts offers products from one category of merchandise, this is an example of a

Walgreens offers products from several different product categories, this is an example of a:

Walmart known for low prices due to large volume sold and efficient distribution methods.

A vendor will provide an _ or an itemized billing statement with terms of payment for the order

A system that tracks the amount of a product on hand by maintaining records on sales.

This transportation system is expensive to construct and can be difficult to maintain. 

These buy in large quantities from manufacturers, store the goods, and then resell them.

Nonprofit organizations that do not compete in the business world. 

Another name for middlemen who help move products from the manufacturer to the final user.

These are companies that offer products for sale to other businesses:

Most countries have container ports designed for standardized shipping containers.

Businesses that offer a variety of consumer products to members through a warehouse outlet.

Macy’s offers a wide variety of consumer goods in different product categories:

A __ is a form listing the variety, quantity, and prices of products to be ordered.

Pipelines are the safest method of transportation, but people are still concerned.

Manage inventory for retailers by counting stock, refilling and maintaining store displays.

The final business organization in an indirect channel of distribution for consumer products:

This inventory system determines the amount of product on hand by visually counting the items.

__ is the assortment of products maintained by a business.

This channel includes other businesses between the producer and the consumer:

Online retailers like Amazon have disrupted traditional methods of retailing.

Efficiently and effectively moving products and materials through the distribution channel.

A company that provides transportation services to any business in its operating area for a fee

The area where deliveries are made

This wholesaler owns the goods but the goods are shipped directly from the producer.

Currently, air transportation is less than _ percent of the total ton-miles of freight shipped.