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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

Advertising

The placement of announcements and persuasive messages in time or space purchased in any of the mass media by business firms

Advertising objective

a specific communication task to be accomplished with a specific target audience during a specific period of time

Reach advertising media

Percentage of those in the target market exposed to an as at least once during a specified time period

Frequency advertising media

Average number of times a person from the target market is exposed to advertising during a specified time period

Media impact

Reach x Frequency, sometimes expressed as GRP's or Gross Rating Points

Territorial Sales force structure

salesperson assigned to exclusive area and sells full line of product

Product sales force structure

Sales force sells only certain product lines

Customer sales force structure

Sales force organizes along customer or industry lines

Complex sales force structure

Combination of several types of sales force structures

Inside sales force

Conduct business from their offices via telephone, visits from prospective buyers, or support outside sales force

Prospective and qualifying selling process

The salesperson identifies qualified potential customers

Preapproach selling process

The salesperson learns as much as possible about a prospective customer before make a sales call

Approach selling procees

The salesperson meets the customer for the first time

Presentation selling process

The salesperson listens to customer needs, and tells the product story to the buyer, highlighting customer benefits

Handling objection selling proccess

The salesperson seeks out, clarifies, and overcomes customer objections to buying

Closing selling process

The salesperson asks the customer for commitment

Follow-up selling process

The salesperson follows up after the sale to ensure customer satisfaction and repeat business

Sales promotion

Short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service (generate immediate sales)

Consumer promotions

Increase short-term sales or help build long-term market share

Trade promotions

Get retailers to: carry new items and more inventory, advertising products, give products more shelf space, buy ahead

Samples

Offers a trace amount of a product

Coupons

Savings when purchasing specified products

Cash refunds "rebates"

Refund of part of the purchase price by mail

Patronage rewards

Cash or other award offered for regular use of a product or service

Games

Consumers receive something each time they buy which may help them win a prize

International trade system

Provide restriction to trade including: tariffs, quotas, embargo, exchange controls, and non-tariff trade barriers

The World Trade Organization (GATT)

Organization that helps trade: reduces tariffs and other international trade barriers

Regional free trade zone

Groups of nations organized to work toward common goals in the regulation of international trade

Indirect exporting

Working through independent international marketing intermediaries

Direct exporting

Company handles its own exports

Joint venture

Joining or partnering with foreign companies to produce or market products or services

Licensing

Agreement involving royalty payments to company that issues the license

Joint ownership

Shared ownership and control

Standardized marketing mix

Selling largely the same products and using the same marketing approaches worldwide

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)

False advertising

Any advertising or promotion that misrepresents the nature, characteristics qualities or geographic origin of goods, services or commercial activities

Deceptive pricing

Falsely advertising "factory" or "wholesale" prices or large reductions from phony high retail list prices

Deceptive Promotion

Overstating a product's features or performance, running rigged contests

Deceptive packaging

Exaggerating package contests through subtle design, using misleading labeling

Planned Obsolescence

Products need replacement before they should be obsolete

Consumerism

An organized movement of citizens and government agencies to improve the rights and power of buyers in relation to sellers

Ralph Nader

The Godfather of Consumerism

Environmentalism

An organized movement of concerned citizens and government agencies to protect and improve people's living environment

Al Gore

An important force in Environmentalism

Enlightened marketing

A marketing philosophy holding that a company's marketing should support the best long-run performance of the marketing system

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

Innovative marketing

A principle that requires that a company seek real product and marketing improvements (Tesla and Elon Musk)

Value marketing

A principle that holds that a company should put most of its resources into value-building marketing investments

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)

Supply chain revolution and logistical renaissance

Two highly interrelated massive shifts in expectation and practice concerning best practice performance of business operations

Supply chain management

Firms collaborating to leverage strategic positioning and improve operating efficiency

Economic value

High quality products at a low price achieve through efficiencies: economies of scale

Market Value

Convenient product/service assortment and choice: economies of slope

Relevancy value

Providing customization of value adding service to customers

Integrative management

Seeks to identify and achieve lowest total cost by capturing trade-offs that exist between functions; lowest total process cost

Collaboration, enterprise extension, integrated service providers

3 facets of supply chain logistics from increased attention to integrative management

1984 Enactment of national cooperative research and development act

Encouraged firms to develop collaborative initiatives to increase global competitiveness of US based firms

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)

Industrialized globalization

opportunities focus on upscale consumer products; offer substantial opportunities for sale of products combined with value-added services

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

Logistics

Managing of order processing, inventory, transportation, and combo of warehousing, materials handling, and packaging, all integrated throughout network of facilities

Availability service benefit

Inventory to consistency meet customer material or product requirements

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)

Service reliability service benefit

Involves the quality attributes of logistics. The key to quality is accurate inventory availability and operational performance measurements

Inventory strategy

Achieve desired customer service with minimum financial investment in inventory

Reverse logistics:

The receipt, processing, and disposal of returns and damaged inventory (costly for businesses and growing trend)

Material

Inventory moving inbound to enterprise, regardless of its degree of readiness for resale

Product

Value-added inventory sold to customers

Total supply chain

Ultimate customer is end user of product or service whose needs/requirements must be accommodated

Consumer

An individual or a household that purchases products and services to satisfy personal needs

Supply chain management perspective

All firms in supply chain focus on meeting needs and requirements of end users, whether consumers or organizational users

Stockout frequency

No product to fulfill customer demand, no enough inventory on the shelves

Fill out rate

Impact of stockouts over time

Order shipped complete

Measure of successful order where success equals 100% fill rate (binary assignment)

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

Consistency operational performance

Number of times that actual cycles meet the time planned for completion

Flexibility operational performance

The ability to accommodate special situations and unusual or unexpected customer requests

Malfunction recovery operational performance

Contingency plans to accomplish recovery and measure compliance in place before a problem occurs

Service reliability

A firms ability to perform all order-related activities as well as provide customer with critical info regarding logistical operations and status

Expectancy disconfirmation

Simplest and most widely accepted method of defining customer satisfaction

Previous performance (customer satisfaction)

Experience with one supplier may influence customers' expectation regarding other suppliers

Word of mouth (customer satisfaction)

Related to perception of past performance (satisfaction)

Communications coming from supplier itself

Perhaps more important factor influencing customer expectations

Corollary of continuous improvement

Continues escalation of customers' expectations concerning supplier capabilities

Continuous supply

Core objective: to ensure continuous supply of materials, parts, and components available to maintain manufacturing operations

Minimize inventory investment

Maintain supply continuously with minimum inventory investment possible (balance costs of carrying materials against possibility of production stoppage)

Just in time

Ideal for materials to arrive at moment scheduled for use in production process

Volume consolidation

Reduction in # of suppliers

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

Economy of scale

Product quantity should be increased as long as increases in volume decrease average per unit manufactures

Equipment constraints

Flexibility concerning use and sequencing of specific machines to perform multiple manufacturing tasks

Setup/changeover

Delay between runs of distinct products; directly related to need for variety

Leadtime

Elapsed between release of work order to shop floor and completion of all work necessary to achieve ready-to-ship product status

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