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Business Buyer Behavior - Lecture - IV

The document discusses business markets and business buyer behavior. It covers topics such as business buying processes, types of business decisions and buying situations, participants in the buying process, influences on business buyers, and the typical business buying process. The buying process involves problem recognition, need description, specification, supplier search, selection, and performance review. The document also briefly discusses e-procurement, institutional markets, and government markets.

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Business Buyer Behavior - Lecture - IV

The document discusses business markets and business buyer behavior. It covers topics such as business buying processes, types of business decisions and buying situations, participants in the buying process, influences on business buyers, and the typical business buying process. The buying process involves problem recognition, need description, specification, supplier search, selection, and performance review. The document also briefly discusses e-procurement, institutional markets, and government markets.

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Business Markets and Business

Buying Behavior

LECTURE – IV
SZABIST - HYDERABAD
BUSINESS MARKETS

Business buyer behavior refers to the buying behavior of the


organizations that buy goods and services for use in production of
other products and services that are sold, rented, or supplied to
others.

Business buying process is the process where business buyers


determine which products and services are needed to purchase,
and then find, evaluate, and choose among alternative brands
BUSINESS MARKETS
BUSINESS MARKETS
MARKET STRUCTURE AND DEMAND

Fewer and larger buyers


Derived demand

• Inelastic demand
• Fluctuating demand
BUSINESS MARKETS

 More decision participants


 More professional purchasing
effort
BUSINESS MARKETS
TYPES OF DECISIONS AND THE DECISION PROCESS

Supplier development is the


systematic development of
networks of supplier-partners to
ensure an appropriate and
dependable supply of products and
materials that they will use in
making their own products or
resell
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
THE MODEL OF BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
MAJOR TYPES OF BUYING SITUATIONS

Straight rebuy is a routine purchase decision such as


reorder without any modification

Modified rebuy is a purchase decision that requires


some research where the buyer wants to modify the
product specification, price, terms, or suppliers

New task is a purchase decision that requires thorough


research such as a new product
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
MAJOR TYPES OF BUYING SITUATIONS

 Systems selling involves the purchase of a packaged


solution from a single seller
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
PARTICIPANTS IN THE BUSINESS BUYING PROCESS

Buying center is all of the individuals and units that


participate in the business decision-making process

 Users
 Influencers
 Buyers
 Deciders
 Gatekeepers
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
PARTICIPANTS IN THE BUSINESS BUYING PROCESS

Users are those that will use the product or service

Influencers help define specifications and provide information for


evaluating alternatives

Buyers have formal authority to select the supplier and arrange


terms of purchase

Deciders have formal or informal power to select and approve final


suppliers

Gatekeepers control the flow of information


BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
MAJOR INFLUENCES ON BUSINESS BUYERS

Economic Personal
Factors Factors

Price
Emotion
Service
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
MAJOR INFLUENCES ON BUSINESS BUYERS
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

Demand for Economic Cost of


product outlook money

Resource
Technology Culture
availability

Politics Competition
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
MAJOR INFLUENCES ON BUSINESS BUYERS ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS

Objectives
Policies
Procedures
Structure
Systems
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
MAJOR INFLUENCES ON BUSINESS BUYERS
INTERPERSONAL FACTORS

Authority Status

Empathy
Persuasiveness
(understanding)
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
MAJOR INFLUENCES ON BUSINESS BUYERS
INDIVIDUAL FACTORS

Job
Personality Age
position

Attitude
Income Education
toward risk
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
THE BUYING PROCESS
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
THE BUYING PROCESS

Problem recognition occurs when someone in the


company recognizes a problem or need

 Internal stimuli
 Need for new product or production equipment

 External stimuli
 Idea from a trade show or advertising
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
THE BUYING PROCESS

General need description describes the characteristics


and quantity of the needed item

Product specification describes the technical criteria

Value analysis is an approach to cost reduction where


components are studied to determine if they can be
redesigned, standardized, or made with less costly
methods of production
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
THE BUYING PROCESS

Supplier search involves compiling a list of qualified


suppliers

Proposal solicitation is the process of requesting


proposals from qualified suppliers
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
THE BUYING PROCESS

Supplier selection is the process when the buying center


creates a list of desired supplier attributes and negotiates
with preferred suppliers for favorable terms and conditions

Order-routine specifications is the final order with the


chosen supplier and lists all of the specifications and terms
of the purchase
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
THE BUYING PROCESS

Performance review involves a critique of supplier


performance to the purchase terms
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
E-PROCUREMENT

 Online purchasing
 Company-buying sites
 Extranets
BUSINESS BUYER BEHAVIOR
E-PROCUREMENT

 Advantages
 Access to new suppliers
 Lowers costs
 Speeds order processing and delivery
 Shares information
 Sales
 Service and support

 Disadvantages
 Can erode relationships as buyers search for new suppliers
 Security
INSTITUTIONAL AND GOVERNMENT MARKETS

Institutional markets consist of hospitals, nursing homes,


and prisons that provide goods and services to people in
their care

 Characteristics
 Low budgets
 “Captive” audience
INSTITUTIONAL AND GOVERNMENT MARKETS

Government markets tend to favor domestic suppliers


and require suppliers to submit bids and normally
award to the lowest bidder

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