Difference between revisions of "Invoicing and Fulfillment Strategies"

Latest revision as of 12:06, 29 February 2024

When a digital creates a article various decisions have to be made which define the invoicing and fulfillment strategy.

Using own articles

These article have been self-created and have not been imported from 3rd party digitals. In this case the local digital does warehousing, sales, fulfillment and invoicing of the goods. No 3rd party is involved.

Using articles of 3rd parties

When articles of a 3rd party are used, the local digital needs to define the intermediary business strategy, which can be:

If the local digital decides to eventually advertise the product with his catalogs but does not want to do the local stockpiling, he has these intermediary business strategies:

Internal use - this product is not to be redistributed to other partners
Non-commercial - this is the default strategy of b-op which enables transparent markets. This enables the customer to directly contact the ultimate supplier and request the supplier of the good to purchase it there directly.
Commercial strategy - this is a strategy which allows making money out of information / e.g. trade, commission fees, curation fees, ...

Commercial business strategy

When the marketplace business strategy is applied, the using party has to define the applicable invoicing and fulfillment strategy.

Available invoicing strategies

The user must pick one of those

regular invoicing to customer [default] - the customer will receive a bill from the catalog providing digital
comission invoicing to customer - the customer will receive a commission fee invoice from the catalog providing digital
commission invoicing to article source - the supplier will receive a commission fee invoice from the catalog providing digital

Available fulfillment strategies

This user must pick one when creating a new product. This only impact of this option button is to create the default fulfillment flow.

regular fulfillment by digital [default for own articles] - the customer will receive a goods defined by the fulfillment flow setting
fulfillment by article provider [default for 3rd party articles] - the supplier ships the product to the customer

This setting just creates default fulfillment flows according to the setting. The effective flow is driven by the defined fulfillment flow.

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-*select a '''default invoicing''' stategy  There are three available: regular invoicing to customer, comission invoicing to customer, commission invoicing to article source
+When a digital creates a article various decisions have to be made which define the invoicing and fulfillment strategy.
-*select a '''default fulfillment''' strategy. There are two available: self fulfillment, article source fulfills.
-*For each of the product sources you may specify an '''override invoicing''' '''and fulfillment strategy'''. (ofc not for the exlusions)
-* definition of '''contained categories''' (classication structures) - these categories are packed into the catalog file and transmitted to the customer, which can decide which ones are to be used
+== Using own articles ==
-* definition of contained '''category mappings''' (only these ones where both categories are included are available) - this helps the customer to map to his local structures.
+These article have been self-created and have not been imported from 3rd party digitals. In this case the local digital does warehousing, sales, fulfillment and invoicing of the goods. No 3rd party is involved.
-See [https://wiki.zugseil.com/en/index.php/Invoicing%20and%20Fulfillment%20Strategies this article] for more information on invoicing and fulfillment strategies.
+== Using articles of 3rd parties ==
+When articles of a 3rd party are used, the local digital needs to define the intermediary business strategy, which can be:
-Sales settings
+If the local digital decides to eventually advertise the product with his catalogs but does not want to do the local stockpiling, he has these intermediary business strategies:
-*publishing price list and currency.
-*
+* '''Internal use''' - this product is not to be redistributed to other partners
-*
+*'''Non-commercial''' - this is the default strategy of b-op which enables transparent markets. This enables the customer to directly contact the ultimate supplier and request the supplier of the good to purchase it there directly.
-*catalogs available to 3rd parties
+* '''Commercial strategy''' - this is a strategy which allows making money out of information / e.g. trade, commission fees, curation fees, ...
-*'''definition of target audience''' - for which business participants will this catalog be available?
-**public, specific partners
+=== Commercial business strategy ===
-**
+When the marketplace business strategy is applied, the using party has to define the '''applicable invoicing''' and '''fulfillment strategy.'''
-*'''define order routing''' - for each of the defined products you may define where the catalog customer digital shall place the orders. There are various business cases, which are supported by routing
-**'''trade business''' - in this case the catalog does not contain the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital is ordering with the publisher of the catalog, which procures or produces the products himself. Once they are there, they are shipped.
+====== Available invoicing strategies ======
-**Three digital business cases (catalog customer, catalog publisher, final supplier)
+The user must pick one of those
-***'''point-to-point business''' - in this case the catalog contains the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital orders directly with the last known upstream supply chain digital. The money and fulfillment directly happen between the final supplier and the catalog customer.
+* '''regular invoicing to customer [default]''' - the customer will receive a bill from the catalog providing digital
-***'''brokerage business''' - in this case the catalog does not contain the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital is ordering with the publisher of the catalog. The publisher does not do a make or buy decision, but just forwards the order to partner of which he has received the product and passes the order on. The final supplier does the fulfillment. The broker keeps the delta of the procurement price and the price published to the customer.
+* '''comission invoicing to customer''' - the customer will receive a commission fee invoice from the catalog providing digital
-***'''commission business''' - in this case the catalog does not contain the supply-chain of this product. The customer digital is ordering with the publisher of the catalog. The publisher does not do a make or buy decision, but just forwards the order to partner of which he has received the product and passes the order on and notifies the customer, so they can do the business directly. The final supplier does the fulfillment and takes care of the payment directly. The catalog publisher receives a comission of the final supplier.
+* '''commission invoicing to article source''' - the supplier will receive a commission fee invoice from the catalog providing digital
+====== Available fulfillment strategies ======
+This user must pick one when creating a new product. This only impact of this option button is to create the default fulfillment flow.
+* '''regular fulfillment by digital [default for own articles]''' - the customer will receive a goods defined by the fulfillment flow setting
+* '''fulfillment by article provider''' '''[default for 3rd party articles]''' - the supplier ships the product to the customer
+{{Note|This setting just creates default fulfillment flows according to the setting. The effective flow is driven by the defined fulfillment flow.}}
 == Related articles ==
 * [[App:Catalog designer]]
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