How Does Your Customer Want to
Buy Your Product from your Channel?
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• Same day
• Delivered and installed
• Downloaded
• Bundled with other
products
• As a service
• …
Types of Channels
9
– Original Equipment
Manufacturer (OEM)
– Value Added Reseller(VAR)
– Reseller
– Distributor
Direct Indirect Licensing
How Do the Economics Work in
Different Sales Channel?
How Are Channels Compensated?
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– Commission
– Percentage of sales price
– Discounted pre-purchase
Channel Economics: “Direct” Sales
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Selling Expenses+
G&A +
R&D
End
Consumer
EU
Discounts
Your Revenue
List
Price
Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
Cost of Goods
(Supply Chain)
Profit
Channel Economics: Resellers
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Cost of Goods
(Supply Chain)
Selling +
G&A + R&D
End
Consumer
EU
Discounts
Reseller
Your Revenue
List
Price
Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
Profit
Selling +
G&A +
R&D
Channel Economics: Distributors/Resellers
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End
Consumer
EU
Discounts
Reseller
Distributor
Your Revenue
List
Price
Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
Cost of Goods
(Supply Chain)
Profit
The Channel as a Customer
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– Some products are embedded in others (OEM)
– Some products are resold by others (VARs)
– Some products are distributed by others
– Who’s the customer?
Channel Economics: OEM or IP Licensing
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Your Product Becomes Your
Customer’s Cost of Goods Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
End
Consumer
Reseller
Selling
+G&A
+ R&D
Cost of
Goods
(Supply
Chain)
EU
Discounts
Reseller
Distributor
Master
Distributor
Profit + SG&A +
R&D
Cost of
Goods
(Supply
Chain)
Your Revenue
List
Price
Profit
How Are Channels Motivated or Incented?
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– Money! – what makes them the most?
– Training
– Marketing to the channel
– Special Performance Incentive Fund (SPIF)
Book Publishing
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•Percent of
Retail
• You get
- 35% of retail
- the distributor gets 10%
- the wholesaler gets 15%
- the retailer gets 40%
- less any discount they offer the customer
Publisher
National
Wholesaler
Distributor Retailer Customer
35% 15% 10% 40%
$7.00 $3.00 $2.00 $8.00 $20.00
Channels (Direct)
• Direct to institutions
• Some formularies involved in purchase decisions
• Some doctors make purchase decision directly
• Device company/Doctor relationship is key
• Heavily influenced by :
• Clinical study results
• Regulatory approval
• Reimbursement
Hospitals
Pain Clinics
COST / PROFIT ANALYSIS
R&D
Maintaining
IP
End
user
Our revenue 4-8% revenues List price
Per unit cost and profit estimation
Licensing Revenue Model
Raw
materials
Manufacturing
&
Packaging
License
fee
Distribution
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Univ.
License
fee
Individual
Doctors
Purchasing
Administrators
High value
medical products
(e.g. cardiovascular
stents)
Commodity
medical products
(e.g. latex gloves)
• Doctor education
• Direct feedback from doctors
• Very expensive
• No doctor education
• No customer feedback
• Inexpensive
Direct Sales
Distributors
MammOptics
Channel Strategies and Costs
Individual
Doctors
Purchasing
Administrators
Channel Strategies and Costs
MammOptics
5 dedicated sales people
$150,000 each/year
Hire nurses or technicians
with established
relationships
Early adopter feedback
Continue with core
group of sales people
Use women’s
healthcare equipment
distributor
Already established
network of customers
Sales strategy 1 Sales strategy 2
Margin - it is the difference between revenue and the
associated cost of sales
Market Share - the percentage of the total revenue or
sales in a market that a company’s business makes up
For example:
If there are 50,000 units sold per year in a given industry,
a company whose sales were 5,000 of those units would
have 10% share in that market