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Multi-channel strategy in business-to-business markets: Prospects and problems
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Multi-channel strategy in business-to-business markets: Prospects and problems

Bert Rosenbloom
Industrial marketing management, v 36(1)
2007

Abstract

Channel coordination Channel management Integrated multiple channels Multi-channel strategy Multiple channels
Multi-channel marketing strategy has become a major force in business-to-business distribution channels, especially since the option of Internet-based online channels emerged less than a decade ago. Making products and services available to business markets via a wide array of different channels can provide increased levels of customer choice and service. But the task of coordinating and integrating multiple channels that operate at high levels of efficiency has forced managers responsible for channel management to deal with a variety of challenging issues. These include the role of e-commerce in the multi-channel structure, finding an optimal channel mix, creating synergies across channels, building strategic alliances, creating sustainable competitive advantages, managing more complex supply chains, dealing with conflict, and providing the leadership necessary to attain well integrated multiple channels.

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