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Introduction
Business-to-business (B2B) market is significantly larger than the consumer market. Example: U.S. companies spend more than $300 billion annually just for office and maintenance supplies.
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Companies also buy services, such as legal, accounting, office-cleaning, and other services. Some firms focus entirely on business markets. Example: Caterpillar, which makes construction and mining equipment. Diverse market, everything from a box of paper clips to thousands of parts for an automobile manufacturer.
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Four main components: Commercial market: Individuals and firms that acquire products to support, directly or indirectly, production of other goods and services. Largest segment of the business market. Trade industries Retailers or wholesalers that purchase products for resale to others. Also called resellers, marketing intermediaries that operate in the trade sector.
Governmentall domestic levels (federal, state, local) and foreign governments; also act as sellerse.g., confiscated goods.
Public and private institutions, such as hospitals, churches, colleges and universities, and museums.
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More than 94 percent of all Internet sales are B2B transactions. Opens up foreign markets to sellers. Largest segment of the business market.
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May differ due to variations in regulations and cultural practices. Businesses must be willing to adapt to local customs and business practices and research cultural preferences.
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SEGMENTATION BY DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS: Grouping by size based on sales revenues or number of employees.
SEGMENTATION BY CUSTOMER TYPE: Grouping in broad categories, such as by industry. Customer-based segmentation: Dividing a business-to-business market into homogeneous groups based on buyers product specifications.
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SEGMENTATION BY END-USE APPLICATION: Segmenting a business-to-business market based on how industrial purchasers will use the product. Example: A supplier of industrial gases that sells hydrogen to some companies and carbon dioxide to others. SEGMENTATION BY PURCHASE CATEGORIES: Segmenting according to organizational buyer characteristics. Example: Whether a company has a designated central purchasing department or each unit within the company handles its own purchasing. Businesses increasingly segment customers according to the stage in their relationship. Example: Whether a customer is new or a long-term partner.
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GEOGRAPHIC MARKET CONCENTRATION: Business market more concentrated than consumer market. Example: Companies that sell to the Central government are often located near NCR Businesses becoming less geographically concentrated as Internet technology improves. SIZES AND NUMBER OF BUYERS: Business market has smaller number of buyers than consumer market. Many buyers are large organizations, such as Boeing, which buys jet engines.
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Sellers must navigate organizational buying processes that often involve multiple decision makers. Purchasing process usually more formal than in consumer market. Purchases may require bidding and negotiations.
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BUYER-SELLER RELATIONSHIPS
Often more complex than in consumer market. Greater reliance on relationship marketing.
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Business purchasing patterns differ from country to country. Global sourcing: Purchasing goods and services from suppliers worldwide. Can bring significant cost savings but requires adjustments.
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DERIVED DEMAND
The linkage between demand for a companys output and its purchases of resources such as machinery, components, supplies, and raw materials. Example: Demand for computer microprocessor chips is derived from demand for personal computers. Organizational buyers purchase two types of items:
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VOLATILE DEMAND
Example: Demand for gasoline pumps may be reduced if demand for gasoline slows.
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JOINT DEMAND
Results when the demand for one business product is related to the demand for another business product used in combination with the first item.
Example: If cement supply falls, then decrease in construction will affect concrete market.
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INELASTIC DEMAND
Demand throughout an industry will not change significantly due to a price change. Example: Construction firms will not necessarily buy more cement if prices fall unless overall housing demand also increases.
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INVENTORY ADJUSTMENTS
Just-in-time (JIT) inventory policies boost efficiency by cutting inventory and requiring vendors to deliver inputs as they are needed. Often use sole sourcing, buying a firms entire stock of a product from just one supplier. Latest inventory trend: JIT II, suppliers to place representatives at the customers facility to work as part of an integrated, on-site customersupplier team.
Firms acquiring needed products can get them in one of three ways:
Producing the item may be cheapest route, but most firms cannot make all of the products they need.
Many companies purchase many of the goods they need. Companies can spread out costs through leasing.
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Offshoring: Movement of high-wage jobs from one country to lower-cost overseas locations. Example: China makes two-thirds of the worlds copiers, microwaves, DVD players, and shoes, and virtually all of the worlds toys. Allows firms to concentrate their resources on their core business and access specialized talent or expertise. Nearshoring: Moving jobs to vendors in countries close to the businesss home country. U.S. firms often nearshore in Canada or Mexico. Outshoring: Using outside vendors to provide goods and services formerly produced in-house. Commonly outshore for three reasons: cost reduction, quality and speed of software maintenance and development, and greater value.
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Many companies discover their cost savings are less than expected. Can raise security concerns over proprietary technology or customer data. Can reduce flexibility to respond quickly to marketplace. Can create conflicts with unions, even leading to shutdowns and strikes. Can negatively affect employee morale and loyalty.
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More complex than the consumer decision process. Takes place within formal organizations budget, cost, and profit considerations.
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Environmental Factors: Economic, political, regulatory, competitive, and technological considerations influence business buying decisions. Example: Law freezing cable rates or introduction of new product by a competitor will affect demand. Natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina.
Organizational Factors
Successful marketers understand their customers organizational structures, policies, and purchasing systems.
Some firms have centralized procurement, others delegate it throughout the units. Many companies use multiple sourcing to avoid depending too heavily on a sole supplier.
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Interpersonal Influences
Many different people influence B2B buying decisions, sometimes as individuals and sometimes as part of a committee.
Marketers must know who the influencers are and understand their priorities. Sales personnel must be flexible and have a good technical understanding of their products.
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The Role of the Professional Buyer Many organizations rely on professionals, often called merchandisers, who implement systematic buying procedures. Firms usually buy expense items with little delay but carefully consider capital purchases. May rely on systems integration, centralization of the procurement function. Corporate buyers often use the Internet to identify sources of supplies.
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Stage 1
Anticipate a Problem/Need/Opportunity and a General Solution Example: Need to provide employees with a good cup of coffee to enhance productivity.
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Stage 2
Determine the Characteristics and Quantity of a Needed Good or Service Example: Offering a coffee system that brews one cup of coffee at a time according to each employees preference.
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Stage 3
Describe Characteristics and the Quantity of a Needed Good or Service Example: Firms need a simple system for brewing a good cup of coffee; quantity requirements are easily correlated to the number of coffee drinkers.
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Stage 4
Search for and Qualify Potential Sources Choice of supplier may be fairly straightforward or very complex.
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Stage 5
May involve competitive bidding, especially if the buyer is the government or a public agency.
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Stage 6
Evaluate Proposals and Select Suppliers Buyers choose proposal best suited to their needs. Final choice may involve trade-offs between feature such as price, reliability, quality, and order accuracy.
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Stage 7
Buyer and vendor work out best way to process future purchases.
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Stage 8
Obtain Feedback and Evaluate Performance Buyers measure vendors performance. Larger firms are more likely to use formal evaluation procedures. Some firms rely on outside organizations to gather quality feedback and summarize results.
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Business buying behavior involves degree of effort involved in the decision and the levels within the organization in which these decisions are made.
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Straight Rebuying
A recurring purchase decision in which a customer reorders a product that has satisfied needs in the past. Purchaser see little reason to assess competing options.
Marketers who maintain good relationships with customers can go a long way toward ensuring straight rebuys.
High-quality products. Superior service. Prompt delivery.
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Modified Rebuying
Purchaser willing to reevaluate available options. May occur if supplier has let a rebuy circumstance deteriorate because of poor service or delivery performance.
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New-Task Buying
First-time or unique purchase situations that require considerable effort by the decision makers. Most complex category of business buying. Often requires purchaser to consider alternative offerings and vendors.
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Reciprocity
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ANALYSIS TOOLS
Value analysisexamines each component of a purchase in an attempt to either delete the item or replace it with a more costeffective substitute.
Vendor analysisan ongoing evaluation of a supplier s performance in categories such as price, back orders, delivery times, liability insurance, and attention to special requests.
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Marketers may have difficulty identifying members of foreign buying centers. Foreign buying centers often include more participants than those in U.S. Marketers who can quickly identify decision makers have an advantage over competition.
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TEAM SELLING
Combining several sales associates or other staff to help the lead account representative reach all those who influence the purchase decision. May include members of the seller firms own supply network in the sales situation. Example: Reseller of specialized computer applications whose clients require access to training.
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Marketer must develop strategy based on particular organizations buying behavior and on the buying situation.
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Government agencies make up the largest customer group for many products. Purchases typically involve dozens of interested parties.
Institutional buyers include schools, hospitals, libraries, foundations, and others. Have widely diverse buying practices among, and even within, institutions. Multiple buying influences can affect buying decisions, such as conflicts between professional staff and purchasing departments.
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Marketers must consider buyers attitudes and cultural patterns. Local industries, economic conditions, geographic characteristics, and legal restrictions must also be considered.
Remanufacturing, or restoring worn-out products to like-new condition, can be an important strategy in places that cannot afford new products.
Foreign governments are also an important market.
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