marketing and operations coordination

Sioled Working pg.117

lack of communication between management functions/ poor integration of decision-making

companies driven by marketing planning could allow operations strategy to drift through lack of attention pg117

Piercy (2010)

company strategy

important to ensure sales growth

distant relationship could lead marketing to the creation of unrealistic expectations

shapiro (1977) pg.118

areas of conflict

evaluation and rewards

marketing managers- profit orientated

operations manager- cost orientated

inherent complexity

marketing managers- soft(qualitative) data

operations manager - hard (quantified) data

cultural difference

complicating factors

need to interface with other functions such as research

need for cooperation being greater for companies under rapid growth

technological change

difficulty of changing increasingly automated operations

online shopping pg119

fast fashion pg119

improving coordination pg 119-120

partnership improving due to increasing digital market

traditional marketing channels replaced by holistic approaches (winterberry group,2012)

speed

insight

access

flexibility

increase responsiveness

improve understanding of customer

use best mix of media

provide dynamic capability through continuous input facility- data

adapt to changing needs, priorities and demand

christopher and Ryals (2014)