1. Micro Environmental

The microenvironment consists of five components. The first is the organization’s internal environment—its several departments and management levels—as it affects marketing management's decision making. The second component includes the marketing channel firms that cooperate to create value: the suppliers and marketing intermediaries (middlemen, physical distribution firms, marketing-service agencies, financial intermediaries). The third component consists of the five types of markets in which the organization can sell: the consumer, producer, reseller, government, and international markets. The fourth component consists of the competitors facing the organization. The fifth component consists of all the publics that have an actual or potential interest in or impact on the organization’s ability to achieve its objectives:
Financial, media, government, citizen action, and local, general, and internal publics. So the microenvironment consists of six forces close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers:
a. The company itself (including departments). b. Suppliers. c. Marketing channel firms (intermediaries).d. Customer markets. e. Competitors. f. Publics.

1. The Company’s Microenvironment

As discussed earlier the company’s microenvironment consists of six forces that affect its abilityto serve its customers. Let us discuss these forces in detail:

a. The Company

The first force is the

company

itself and the role it plays in the microenvironment. This could bedeemed the internal environment.1). Top management is responsible for setting the company’s mission, objectives, broadstrategies, and policies.2). Marketing managers must make decisions within the parameters established by topmanagement.3). Marketing managers must also work closely with other company departments. Areas such asfinance, R & D, purchasing, manufacturing, and accounting all produce better results whenaligned by common objectives and goals.4). All departments must “think consumer” if the firm is to be successful. The goal is to providesuperior customer value and satisfaction.

b. Suppliers
Suppliers are firms and individuals that provide the resources needed by the company and its competitors to produce goods and services. They are an important link in the company’s overall customer “value delivery system”. One consideration is to watch supply availability (such as supply shortages). Another point of concern is the monitoring of price trends of key inputs. Rising supply costs must be carefully monitored.

c. Marketing Intermediaries

Marketing intermediaries are firms that help the company to promote, sell, and distribute its goods to final buyers.

Resellers

These are distribution channel firms that help the company find customers or make sales to them.2). These include wholesalers and retailers who buy and resell merchandise.3). Resellers often perform important functions more cheaply than the company can perform itself. However, seeking and working with resellers is not easy because of the power that some demand and use.

Physical distribution firms

They help the company to stock and move goods from their points of origin to their destinations. Examples would be warehouses (that store and protect goods before they move to the next destination).

Marketing service agencies

(Such as marketing research firms, advertising agencies, media firms, etc.) Help the company target and promote its products.

Financial intermediaries

(Such as banks, credit companies, insurance companies, etc.) help finance transactions and insure against risks.

d. Customers

The company must study its customer markets closely since each market has its own special characteristics. These markets normally include:

Consumer markets

(Individuals and households that buy goods and services for personal consumption)

Business markets

(Buy goods and services for further processing or for