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Business buying behavior. Business buying behavior. Business Market: All organizations that buy goods and services for use in production of other products and services that are sold rented or supplied to other. Business buying process:
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Business buying behavior • Business Market: All organizations that buy goods and services for use in production of other products and services that are sold rented or supplied to other. • Business buying process: the decision making process by which business buyers establish the need for purchased products and services and identify, evaluate and choose among alternative brands and suppliers
Features of Business markets • Market structure and demand: • Fewer but larger • Geographically concentrated • Demand derived from final consumer demand • Inelastic demand: short run price change • Nature of the buying unit: • Professional purchasing efforts. • Type of decisions and the decision process: • Complex buying decision • Formalized • Close n long term relation
Model of business buyer behavior BUYER RESPONSE -Product or service choice -suppliers choice -order quantities -delivery terms and times -service terms -payment THE BUYING ORGANIZATION • THE ENVIRONMENT • Marketing stimuli: P`s • Other stimuli: • Economic, technological, • Cultural, social, competitive. The buying centre Buying decision process
Types of buying situation • Straight rebuy • Modified rebuy • New task • System buying
Participants in business buying process Buying Centre: • Users • Influencers • Deciders • Gatekeepers
factors • Environmental factors: • Economic developments • Supply conditions • Technological • Political and regulatory • Competitive • Culture and customs • Organizational: • Objectives • Policies • Procedures • Organizational structure • systems
Cont.. • Interpersonal • Authority • Status • Empathy • Persuasiveness • Individual: • Age • Education • Job position • Personality • Risk attitudes
Business buying process • Problem recognition • General need description • Product specification • Suppliers search • Proposal drafting and submission • Supplier selection • Order routine specification • Performance review