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