Apple Distribution and Channel Management : Describe the channel strategy in place‚ give your opinion about its effiency and describe how to could be in the 10 coming years. The company Apple sells lots of technologic and innovative goods and services‚ like the famous iPhone‚ iPod or Macintosh. The success of this firm is due to the innovation‚ an excellent communication‚ design‚ the ease use‚ and in other hand due to the adapted channel distribution strategy. As we can see‚ Apple Products aren’t
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Terms and responsibilities of channel members In conceiving the tasks to be performed by different types of intermediaries in the distribution channel‚ managers must also determine the mix of conditions and responsibilities that must be established among the channel members to get the tasks performed effectively and enthusiastically. The ’trade-relations mix’ is capable of many variations and introduces a still further dimension of alternatives. There are four main elements in the trade-relations
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INTRODUCTION Apple Inc. designs‚ manufactures and markets a wide range of personal computers‚ computer software‚ and portable music devices. Some of these Apple products include the Macintosh‚ iPods as well as the iPhones. Apple’s strong value chain is one of the reasons for its success today. Its’ efficient and strong value chain has allowed the company to expand globally with a strong presence in 102 countries. Furthermore‚ Apple has joined in the process of reintermediation‚ adding
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Though an older article‚ “Apple Grows‚ But So Does Channel Conflict” ‚ demonstrates an excellent example of marketing and channel conflicts. As a result of the wide success of Apple’s comeback through the sales of iPods and iPhones‚ Apple aggressively increased the growth of their retail stores at a rate of about 33 percent a year (push strategy). At the same time‚ Apple previously had utilized a distribution (distribution channel) to many other companies (non-Apple stores). Prior to Apple’s
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Suggestions for channel conflicts at apple What should Jobs & Co. do? Apple must craft a plan to rebuild and reinvent its ties with small resellers. First‚ it needs to be honest and admit that Apple stores are hurting the resellers’ business and that not all of them will survive. Second‚ Apple has to treat those that do hang on as integral parts of its organization and sales effort. Finally -- and most crucial -- Apple needs to ease the pain by coming up with programs to encourage these longtime
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The best suited industry for this sector would be the retail industry which includes popular supermarkets such as Woolworths Coles and Aldi to name a few. Producers in industry perform one task which is the process of manufacturing and selling the goods to the wholesalers and eventually leading to the retailers. Retailers gather goods from the wholesaler and provide a one time service towards the consumer by adding value and essential services towards the product. Retail stores are targeted to categories
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set of independent organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption? A) value chain B) supply chain C) marketing channel D) wholesale consortium E) multinational enterprise 2) A marketing channel strategy is a set of activities focused on designing and managing a marketing channel for the purpose of ________. A) expanding a firm’s position in niche markets B) improving a firm’s sustainable competitive advantage C) minimizing difficulties with
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Competition Channel conflict is generated when one channel member’s actions prevent another channel member from achieving its goal. On the other hand‚ channel coordination occurs when channel members are brought together to advance the goal of the channel‚ as opposed to their own potentially incompatible goals. There are three pertinent issues to be examined here: Types of Conflict and Competition‚ Causes of Channel Conflict and How to Manage Channel Conflicts. Case 1: Apple Inc Channel Conflict
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Channels of Distribution Lesson 20 Channels of Distribution Are you aware that the study material of Business Studies‚ which is now in your hands‚ is prepared at the headquarters of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) situated at New Delhi. How did it come to your hands? Was it available at your study centre or you bought it from the market? If you got it from your study centre‚ then just think for a while: how did it reach your study centre? Actually‚ after publishing the
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Channel Integration- What is it ? In the world of Sales and Distribution Management‚ it is imperative to have upstream partners like logistics ‚ distributor ‚ retailers ‚ transporter and whole sellers to effectively sell the products manufactured by a company . Channel integration is a collaborative effort to bring together all these partners into the system and integrate the efforts so that all the partners are benefited out of it. By using the concepts of Channel Integration‚ rather than
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