What are the channels of purchase

The main categorization of purchase channels are: entity purchase channels, network purchase channels.

Physical advantages: face-to-face transactions, honesty and reliability, easier to understand the properties of the goods, but also the current main way of purchase.

Disadvantages of physical purchase: long purchase channels, high cost of goods, low efficiency. Across the region to buy goods to increase the cost of travel and additional costs, and at the same time there are limitations on the types of goods, facing a large number of goods may need to go to different regions to buy goods.

The advantage of the network of goods: because of the network mall to save rent store, call employees and storage and storage of a series of costs, in general, its price is cheaper than the general entity to buy the same type of goods.

High efficiency, not limited by time, at any time you can "store", access to a large number of commodity information, you can buy local goods do not have; online payment is more secure than the traditional cash payment to avoid cash loss or robbery; from ordering, buying goods to the door of the goods do not need to be present in person, both time and effort.

Expanded

There are many kinds of commodity procurement channels

1, the commercial system of wholesale enterprises: such as cigarettes, alcohol and other commodities, such as tobacco monopoly system and the sugar and alcohol monopoly system to purchase. As retail businesses purchase more commodities, sometimes to a number of different systems to organize the purchase of goods.

2, production enterprises: direct contact with the production enterprises to buy goods, you can reduce the intermediate links, reduce the circulation costs, while at the same time can expand the source of goods, increase the selectivity of goods.

3, wholesale market: here a large number of commodities are concentrated, the advantage is selective, complete varieties; the disadvantage is that the quality is difficult to guarantee.

4, commodity distribution centers: distribution centers from the supplier to accept a variety of large quantities of goods, and then according to the requirements of the ordering business, the center of the goods for packaging, classification, distribution, delivery. Therefore, the distribution center is actually a place for logistics activities. Retailers can purchase goods directly from the distribution center; however, in the case of large-scale retail chains, it is more cost-effective to establish their own distribution centers.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Purchasing Channels

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