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MARKETING MANAGEMENT
12th edition

15
Designing and
Managing
Value Networks and
Channels

Kotler

Keller

Chapter Questions
• What is a marketing channel system and
value network?
• What work do marketing channels perform?
• How should channels be designed?
• What decisions do companies face in
managing their channels?
• How should companies integrate channels

and manage channel conflict?
• What is the future for e-commerce?
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Marketing Channels

Sets of interdependent organizations
involved in the process of making a
product or service available for use
or consumption.

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Channels and
Marketing Decisions

Push
Strategy

Pull

Strategy

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Categories of Buyers
Habitual shoppers
High value deal seekers
Variety-loving shoppers
High-involvement shoppers

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Buyer Expectations for
Channel Integration
• Ability to order a product
online and pick it up at a
convenient retail location
• Ability to return an
online-ordered product to
a nearby store

• Right to receive
discounts based on total
online and offline
purchases
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Should the 4 P’s be replaced?





Solutions
Information
Value
Access

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Figure 15.1 Increasing Efficiency


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Channel Member Functions
• Gather information
• Develop and disseminate persuasive
communications
• Reach agreements on price and terms
• Acquire funds to finance inventories
• Assume risks
• Provide for storage
• Provide for buyers’ payment of their bills
• Oversee actual transfer of ownership
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Figure 15.2 Marketing Channel Flows

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Figure 15.3

Consumer Marketing Channels

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Figure 15.3 Industrial
Marketing Channels

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Designing a Marketing Channel
System
Analyze customer needs
Establish channel objectives
Identify major channel alternatives
Evaluate major channel alternatives
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Channel Service Outputs
Lot size
Waiting/delivery time

Spatial convenience
Product variety
Service backup
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Identifying Channel Alternatives
Types of
intermediaries
Number of
intermediaries
Terms and
responsibilities
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Number of Intermediaries
Exclusive
Selective
Intensive
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Figure 15.4 The Value-Adds Versus Costs
of Different Channels

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Figure 15.5 Break-Even Chart for the Choice
Between A Company Sales Force and
Manufacturer’s Sales Agency

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Channel-Management Decisions
Selecting channel members
Training channel members
Motivating channel members
Evaluating channel members
Modifying channel members
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Channel Power







Coercive
Reward
Legitimate
Expert
Referent

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Channel Integration and Systems
 Vertical marketing
systems
• Corporate VMS
• Administered VMS
• Contractual VMS

 Horizontal marketing
systems
 Multichannel systems
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Figure 15.6 The Hybrid Grid

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Managing Channel Conflict
• Adoption of
superordinate goals
• Cooptation
• Diplomacy
• Mediation
• Arbitration

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e-Commerce Marketing Practices


• Pure-click
• Brick-and-click
• Brick-and-mortar

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Marketing Debate
 Does it matter where you are sold?
Take a position:
1. Channel images do not really affect
the brand images of the products they
they sell that much.
2. Channel images must be consistent with
the brand image.
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Marketing Discussion

 Think of your favorite retailers.

How have they integrated their
channel system? How would you
like their channels to be integrated?
Do you use multiple channels
from them? Why?
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