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Supply Chain Management in Pharmaceutical Industry by Pearson
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Supply Chain Management in Pharmaceutical Industry by Pearson

by Avadhut C. Sukhtankar, Sanjiv M. Haldankar,, P. M. Wadekar,, Neel Sharma,, Rajeev P. Patil
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
998 pages
14h 52m
English
Pearson India
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CHAPTER 18

Secondary Distribution

18.1 INTRODUCTION

Sales and distribution play an important role in the successful marketing of pharmaceutical products and they have been recognized as an important function. In the pharmaceutical industry, distribution channels contribute a lot towards the success or failure of products.

The role of the consumer is somewhat passive in pharmaceutical selling, except for the fact that he initiates the process by becoming sick and completes it by buying the medicine as prescribed by doctors to cure his sickness.

A single transaction in pharmaceutical selling in terms of transfer of stock from the manufacturer to the consumer is a result of different types of activities by several people located at various points ...

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ISBN: 9789361597640