Invoicing and Fulfillment Strategies
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:
- Trade business strategy - In this case the local digital does procurement, warehousing, sales, fulfillment and invoicing
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:
- Point-To-Point business strategy - 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 strategy - 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 article provider - the supplier ships the product to the customer
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