A value chain is a sequence of activities that an organization performs to design, produce, market, deliver, and support goods or services for customers. The concept was introduced by Michael Porter i
Michael Porter's value chain.
Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for the consumer or business user who needs it, and a distributor is a business involved in the distribution stage of the value cha
Value chain
…infrastructure; thereupon the context provider supplies actual customer interaction. It supports the physical value chain of procurement, manufacturing, distribution and sales of traditional companies. An industry value-chain is a physical representation of the various processes involved in producing goods (and…
Warehouse storing granite in South Jersey, a U.S. East Coast epicenter for logistics and warehouse construction and distribution to a market to the Philadelphia metropolitan area and beyond
In an intensive distribution approach, the marketer relies on chain stores to reach broad markets in a cost efficient manner.
A wholesale fish market at Haikou New Port, China
Types of distribution systems