Global marketing strategy and the global customer identify several additional organizational imperatives. Global marketing frequently relies on strategic alliances. Global programs imply organizational choices regrading the international location of business functions and designing appropriate organizational forms to meet the additional challenges of international coordination and communication. The growing globalization of customers in many sectors leads to the organizational response of developing global account management structures and processes. New buyer expectations for a single point of contact with a supplier, together with uniform terms of trade and worldwide standardization of products and services frequently indicate the need for an organizational design at a global level to manage these customer relationships.