Exam 15: Deliver Value Through Supply Chain Management, channels of Distribution, and Logistics

Grayville Rock and Gravel,located in a seaport town,sells rock,gravel,and sand to local markets.It has just been awarded a contract with a company 500 miles down the coast.Management should consider switching from truck to ________ transport to save money.

A corporate VMS has the advantage of controlling the entire distribution chain under ________.

Which of the following statements about merchandise brokers is true?

How do channel members add value to a distribution channel?

Increasingly commonplace today is the appearance of two different franchise chains under the same roof,such as Pizza-Hut and Taco Bell.This is an example of a(n)________ marketing system.

Compare the responsibilities associated with full-service merchant wholesalers to those associated with limited-service merchant wholesalers.

Channels of distribution provide which of the following?

What types of products are selectively distributed?

Which of the following statements about manufacturers' agents is true?

Explain the concept behind a dual distribution system.

Which of the following are intermediaries that receive fees for facilitating transactions in markets such as real estate,food,and used equipment in which there are a lot of small buyers and sellers?

At some catalog retailers,employees on roller skates called pickers are handed a printout of the products a customer wants,and then the pickers skate through large warehouses accumulating the desired products into one central location.The pickers are engaged in ________.

Tony Pool Chemical Co.purchased 144 buckets of chlorine tablets over the Internet from Chemical,Inc. ,which then placed the order with the manufacturer and arranged for its transportation by truck to the Tony Pool store.Chemical,Inc.is an example of which of the following?

Which type of distribution is used when the producer wants to place its products with more than one,but fewer than all,of the intermediaries who are willing to carry its products?

Drop shippers do all of the following EXCEPT which one?

What are the three major types of vertical marketing systems?

Steve's Physco Skates sells its products to Walmart,who then sells them to the consumer.This is an example of a(n)________.

How can a firm benefit from involvement in a contractual VMS?

Due to the success of the Internet,few producers sell through intermediaries today.

The producer and the final consumer are part of every type of channel of distribution.