'purchasing channel' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It generally refers to a medium through which goods and services are sold, such as a website or television network. For example, "The company is now offering their products through a new purchasing channel on their website."
"Since I had already established all the purchasing channels," he said, "it was then an easier step to market these products in my own way with my own company, and start selling them in Japan".
Startups are now able to more effectively (and directly) target teachers, instead of having to deal exclusively with the more painful, traditional purchasing channels, like, ahem, districts.
Indeed, multichannel shoppers (defined as those who utilize a variety of different purchasing channels, including bricks-and-mortar stores, the telephone, and the Internet) are now in the majority, and spend significantly more than single-channel shoppers.
Valve included support via Steamworks for microtransactions for in-game items in these titles through Steam's purchasing channels, in a similar manner to the in-game store for Team Fortress 2. Later that year, Valve added the ability to trade in-game items and "unopened" game gifts between users.
This may well be attributed to disruption of the habitual purchasing channels by the aggressive AI epidemic control measures and the resulting diminished offer.
As detailed in Hawkes [ 12], FDI has made it possible to lower prices, open up new purchasing channels, optimize the effectiveness of marketing and advertising, and, ultimately, increase sales.
Finally, the rural first line health facilities equipped with the CDSS have gained access to enhanced power supply, with back-up possibilities, generators and solar panels through local purchasing channels.
However, determining the "right" price is a rather complex decision-making problem that puzzles pricing managers, as it needs to consider information from many constituents of the purchase channel.
The way in which big-box retailers like Best Buy diffuse customer frustration about the strategic market shortage of Microsoft's xBox 360 will demonstrate how savvy they were about training their floor staff to suggest their Web site as an alternative purchase channel, if even to be in queue for backorders.
An auction-based spectrum sharing approach is proposed [21], in which many SUs purchase channels from one PU or spectrum broker through an auction process to efficiently share spectrum among the users in interference-limited systems.
