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 case, the catalog publishing digital has to define which of the intermediary business strategies should be used:
- Point-To-Point business [b-op 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.
- Marketplace business - this is a strategy which allows making money out of information.
Marketplace business strategy
When the marketplace business strategy is applied, the using party has to define the applicable invoicing and fulfillment strategy.
Available invoicing strategies
- 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 - the customer will receive a goods from the catalog providing digital
- fulfillment by product provider - the supplier ships the product to the customer
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