Sourcing Channels
(Transaction channels with Sources)
- Reception Channels: Routes through which supplies are received from Suppliers or Contributors
- Contracting Channels: Routes through which contracts are made with Suppliers or Contributors
- Payment Channels: Routes through which costs are paid to Suppliers
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> Reception Channels
CONTEXT
Reception Channels may be:
- unique in the business or widely used,
- specific to the organization or shared,
- managed by the organization or by a tier,
- easilly substitutable or not,
- ...
CONTENT
Reception Channels may be:
- physical (such as stores) or intangible (such as a web site)
- local or global,
- located at supplier's location or at organization's site,
- of one type or of several types,
- generic or specific to the transaction counterpart,
- a shop, a web site, a logistic service, a mobile rep, a call center, a mailing service, a financial service, a machine,
- ...
CONCEPT
Reception Channels may be:
- trigered by another channel, an activity, an external event, an internal threshold, an external threshold,
- specific for supplies transfer, or common for all value transfers for a given transaction (contracting, supplies, costs)
- associated with other channels for other thransactions or not,
- trigered once or several times per transaction,
- trigered by the organization, by a tier or by the transaction counterpart,
- souce of other transaction channel trigering or not,
- souce of activities or not,
- requiring a lead time to be trigered or not,
- ...
> Contracting Channels
Possibilities for Contracting Channels are very similar to possibilities for Reception Channels.
CONTEXT
Contracting Channels may be:
- unique in the business or widely used,
- specific to the organization or shared,
- managed by the organization or by a tier,
- easilly substitutable or not,
- ...
CONTENT
Contracting Channels may be:
- physical (such as stores) or intangible (such as a web site)
- local or global,
- located at supplier's location or at organization's site,
- of one type or of several types,
- generic or specific to the transaction counterpart,
- a shop, a web site, a logistic service, a mobile rep, a call center, a mailing service, a financial service, a machine,
- ...
CONCEPT
Contracting Channels may be:
- trigered by another channel, an activity, an external event, an internal threshold, an external threshold,
- specific for contracting, or common for all value transfers for a given transaction (contracting, supplies, costs)
- associated with other channels for other thransactions or not,
- trigered once or several times per transaction,
- trigered by the organization, by a tier or by the transaction counterpart,
- source of other transaction channel trigering or not,
- source of activities or not,
- requiring a lead time to be trigered or not,
- ...
> Payment Channels
Possibilities for Payment Channels are very similar to possibilities for Reception Channels and Contracting Channels.
CONTEXT
Payment Channels may be:
- unique in the business or widely used,
- specific to the organization or shared,
- managed by the organization or by a tier,
- easilly substitutable or not,
- ...
CONTENT
Payment Channels may be:
- physical (such as stores) or intangible (such as a web site)
- local or global,
- located at supplier's location or at organization's site,
- of one type or of several types,
- generic or specific to the transaction counterpart,
- a shop, a web site, a logistic service, a mobile rep, a call center, a mailing service, a financial service, a machine,
- ...
CONCEPT
Payment Channels may be:
- trigered by another channel, an activity, an external event, an internal threshold, an external threshold,
- specific for costs, or common for all value transfers for a given transaction (contracting, supplies, costs)
- associated with other channels for other thransactions or not,
- trigered once or several times per transaction,
- trigered by the organization, by a tier or by the transaction counterpart,
- source of other transaction channel trigering or not,
- source of activities or not,
- requiring a lead time to be trigered or not
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