Invoicing and Fulfillment Strategies

When goods are sold, two main questions arise:

• Who sends the bill?
• Who is responsible for fulfillment?

Generally there are two categories depending on the business case of the local digital on the products. Generally there are two business cases:

Regular trade business

This means, that the local digital, which is publishing a product catalog, stockpiles products of the catalog. Local stock is subject to regular stock disposition. Goods can be purchased or produced (make or buy) in a fully independent processes. In this case, the fulfillment and invoicing strategy are synchronous: the fulfillment and the invoicing are both managed by the local digital.

Intermediary business

When products are adopted into a catalog, which have underlying articles withough self-stockpiling, the local digital acts as intermediary for 3rd party goods. In this business case, the invoicing and fulfillment strategies may differ.

Available invoicing strategies

• Point-To-Point business [default] - 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.
• regular invoicing to customer - 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

• regular fulfillment to customer - we ship the ordered item from our local stock
• fulfillment by product provider - the supplier ships the product to the customer

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