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Integrated Marketing communications (IMC) |
The company carefully integrated and coordinates its many communication channels to deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message about the organization and its brands |
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Advertising |
The placement of announcements and persuasive messages in time or space purchased in any of the mass media by business firms |
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Advertising objective |
a specific communication task to be accomplished with a specific target audience during a specific period of time |
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Reach advertising media |
Percentage of those in the target market exposed to an as at least once during a specified time period |
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Frequency advertising media |
Average number of times a person from the target market is exposed to advertising during a specified time period |
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Media impact |
Reach x Frequency, sometimes expressed as GRP's or Gross Rating Points |
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Territorial Sales force structure |
salesperson assigned to exclusive area and sells full line of product |
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Product sales force structure |
Sales force sells only certain product lines |
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Customer sales force structure |
Sales force organizes along customer or industry lines |
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Complex sales force structure |
Combination of several types of sales force structures |
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Inside sales force |
Conduct business from their offices via telephone, visits from prospective buyers, or support outside sales force |
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Prospective and qualifying selling process |
The salesperson identifies qualified potential customers |
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Preapproach selling process |
The salesperson learns as much as possible about a prospective customer before make a sales call |
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Approach selling procees |
The salesperson meets the customer for the first time |
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Presentation selling process |
The salesperson listens to customer needs, and tells the product story to the buyer, highlighting customer benefits |
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Handling objection selling proccess |
The salesperson seeks out, clarifies, and overcomes customer objections to buying |
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Closing selling process |
The salesperson asks the customer for commitment |
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Follow-up selling process |
The salesperson follows up after the sale to ensure customer satisfaction and repeat business |
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Sales promotion |
Short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service (generate immediate sales) |
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Consumer promotions |
Increase short-term sales or help build long-term market share |
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Trade promotions |
Get retailers to: carry new items and more inventory, advertising products, give products more shelf space, buy ahead |
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Samples |
Offers a trace amount of a product |
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Coupons |
Savings when purchasing specified products |
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Cash refunds "rebates" |
Refund of part of the purchase price by mail |
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Patronage rewards |
Cash or other award offered for regular use of a product or service |
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Games |
Consumers receive something each time they buy which may help them win a prize |
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International trade system |
Provide restriction to trade including: tariffs, quotas, embargo, exchange controls, and non-tariff trade barriers |
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The World Trade Organization (GATT) |
Organization that helps trade: reduces tariffs and other international trade barriers |
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Regional free trade zone |
Groups of nations organized to work toward common goals in the regulation of international trade |
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Indirect exporting |
Working through independent international marketing intermediaries |
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Direct exporting |
Company handles its own exports |
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Joint venture |
Joining or partnering with foreign companies to produce or market products or services |
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Licensing |
Agreement involving royalty payments to company that issues the license |
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Joint ownership |
Shared ownership and control |
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Standardized marketing mix |
Selling largely the same products and using the same marketing approaches worldwide |
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Adapted marketing mix |
Producer adjusts the marketing mix elements to each target market, bearing more costs but hoping for a larger market share and return (adapt promotion, or product, or both) |
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False advertising |
Any advertising or promotion that misrepresents the nature, characteristics qualities or geographic origin of goods, services or commercial activities |
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Deceptive pricing |
Falsely advertising "factory" or "wholesale" prices or large reductions from phony high retail list prices |
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Deceptive Promotion |
Overstating a product's features or performance, running rigged contests |
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Deceptive packaging |
Exaggerating package contests through subtle design, using misleading labeling |
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Planned Obsolescence |
Products need replacement before they should be obsolete |
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Consumerism |
An organized movement of citizens and government agencies to improve the rights and power of buyers in relation to sellers |
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Ralph Nader |
The Godfather of Consumerism |
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Environmentalism |
An organized movement of concerned citizens and government agencies to protect and improve people's living environment |
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Al Gore |
An important force in Environmentalism |
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Enlightened marketing |
A marketing philosophy holding that a company's marketing should support the best long-run performance of the marketing system |
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Consumer-oriented marketing |
the philosophy of enlightened marketing that holds that the company should view and organize its marketing activities from the consumer's point of view |
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Innovative marketing |
A principle that requires that a company seek real product and marketing improvements (Tesla and Elon Musk) |
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Value marketing |
A principle that holds that a company should put most of its resources into value-building marketing investments |
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Sense of mission marketing |
A principle that holds that a company should define its mission in broad social terms rather than narrow product terms (Patagonia outdoor apparel) |
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Supply chain revolution and logistical renaissance |
Two highly interrelated massive shifts in expectation and practice concerning best practice performance of business operations |
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Supply chain management |
Firms collaborating to leverage strategic positioning and improve operating efficiency |
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Economic value |
High quality products at a low price achieve through efficiencies: economies of scale |
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Market Value |
Convenient product/service assortment and choice: economies of slope |
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Relevancy value |
Providing customization of value adding service to customers |
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Integrative management |
Seeks to identify and achieve lowest total cost by capturing trade-offs that exist between functions; lowest total process cost |
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Collaboration, enterprise extension, integrated service providers |
3 facets of supply chain logistics from increased attention to integrative management |
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1984 Enactment of national cooperative research and development act |
Encouraged firms to develop collaborative initiatives to increase global competitiveness of US based firms |
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Enterprise Extension |
Expanded managerial influence and control beyond ownership boundaries of single enterprise to facilitate joint planning with customers and suppliers (information sharing and process specialization) |
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Industrialized globalization |
opportunities focus on upscale consumer products; offer substantial opportunities for sale of products combined with value-added services |
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Emerging (Developing) Globalization |
Lower purchasing power but demand for basic products and necessities huge; consumers more interested in quality to basic life than in fashion or technology |
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Logistics |
Managing of order processing, inventory, transportation, and combo of warehousing, materials handling, and packaging, all integrated throughout network of facilities |
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Availability service benefit |
Inventory to consistency meet customer material or product requirements |
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Operational performance service benefits |
Involves delivery speed and consistency - firms typically focus on consistency first, then delivery speed (frequency of malfunction and when malfunction occurs, typical recovery time) |
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Service reliability service benefit |
Involves the quality attributes of logistics. The key to quality is accurate inventory availability and operational performance measurements |
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Inventory strategy |
Achieve desired customer service with minimum financial investment in inventory |
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Reverse logistics: |
The receipt, processing, and disposal of returns and damaged inventory (costly for businesses and growing trend)
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Material |
Inventory moving inbound to enterprise, regardless of its degree of readiness for resale |
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Product |
Value-added inventory sold to customers |
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Total supply chain |
Ultimate customer is end user of product or service whose needs/requirements must be accommodated |
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Consumer |
An individual or a household that purchases products and services to satisfy personal needs |
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Supply chain management perspective |
All firms in supply chain focus on meeting needs and requirements of end users, whether consumers or organizational users |
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Stockout frequency |
No product to fulfill customer demand, no enough inventory on the shelves |
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Fill out rate |
Impact of stockouts over time |
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Order shipped complete |
Measure of successful order where success equals 100% fill rate (binary assignment) |
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Speed operational performance |
Elapsed time from when a customer establishes a need to order until the product is delivered and is ready for customer use |
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Consistency operational performance |
Number of times that actual cycles meet the time planned for completion |
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Flexibility operational performance |
The ability to accommodate special situations and unusual or unexpected customer requests |
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Malfunction recovery operational performance |
Contingency plans to accomplish recovery and measure compliance in place before a problem occurs |
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Service reliability |
A firms ability to perform all order-related activities as well as provide customer with critical info regarding logistical operations and status |
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Expectancy disconfirmation |
Simplest and most widely accepted method of defining customer satisfaction |
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Previous performance (customer satisfaction) |
Experience with one supplier may influence customers' expectation regarding other suppliers |
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Word of mouth (customer satisfaction) |
Related to perception of past performance (satisfaction) |
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Communications coming from supplier itself |
Perhaps more important factor influencing customer expectations |
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Corollary of continuous improvement |
Continues escalation of customers' expectations concerning supplier capabilities |
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Continuous supply |
Core objective: to ensure continuous supply of materials, parts, and components available to maintain manufacturing operations |
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Minimize inventory investment |
Maintain supply continuously with minimum inventory investment possible (balance costs of carrying materials against possibility of production stoppage) |
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Just in time |
Ideal for materials to arrive at moment scheduled for use in production process |
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Volume consolidation |
Reduction in # of suppliers |
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Value engineering |
Examine material and component requirements at an early stage of new product design to ensure balance of lowest total cost and quality incorporated into design |
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Economy of scale |
Product quantity should be increased as long as increases in volume decrease average per unit manufactures |
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Equipment constraints |
Flexibility concerning use and sequencing of specific machines to perform multiple manufacturing tasks |
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Setup/changeover |
Delay between runs of distinct products; directly related to need for variety |
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Leadtime |
Elapsed between release of work order to shop floor and completion of all work necessary to achieve ready-to-ship product status |
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Operational time (Leadtime) |
Combo of setup/changeover and running or actual product time, the greater amount of total leadtime accounted for by actual production, more efficient the conversion process |