The Nature of Industrial Buying and Buying Behaviour

Purchasing Objectives

Generally, the purchase/materials management objective is defined as buying the right items in the right quantity, at the right price, for the delivery at the right time and place. It is the management’s problem to define what is “right” for each dimension. The objectives of the purchasing function are briefly stated as follows:

ü Delivery/Availability

ü Product/Quality

ü Lowest Price

ü Services

ü Supplier Relationship

Buyphases in the Industrial Buying-decision process

Buying is an organisational-decision making process. There are eight phases (or stages) in the buying-decision process, indicating the logical sequence of activities.

In consumer markets, consumers make buying decisions based on certain mental stages such as problem (or need) recognition, information search, evaluation, purchase decision, and post-purchase behaviour. However, in industrial markets the buying decision making process includes observable sequential stages (or phases) involving many people in the buying organisation. Understanding the various phases of buying decision making is useful to an industrial marketer as it helps in developing appropriate selling strategy.

MODELS OF ORGANISATIONAL BUYING BEHAVIOUR

Industrial (or business) buyers are influenced by many factors when they make buying decisions. Generally, business buyers are influenced by organisational factors or task-oriented objectives (like best product quality, or dependable delivery, or lowest price) and personal factors or non-task objectives (like promotion, increments, job security, personal treatment, or favour). When the suppliers’ proposal are substantialy similar, organisational buyers can satisfy organisational objectives with any supplier, and hence personal factors become more important. When suppliers’ offer differ substantially, industrial buyers pay more attention to organisational factors in order to satisfy the organisational objectives.

THE WBSTER AND WIND MODEL OF ORGANISATIONAL BUYING BEHAVIOUR

This is quite a comprehensive model. It consider four sets of variables which affect the buying-decision making process in a firm. These are: environmental, organisational, buying center and individual.

The environmental variables includes (a) physical, (b) technological, (c) economic, (d) political, (e) legal, (f) labour unions, (g) cultural, (h) customer demands, (i) competition, and (j) supplier information. For example, in a recessionary economic condition, industrial firms minimise the quantity of item purchased. The environmental factors influence the buying decisions of individual organisations.

The organisational variables include (a) objectives, (b) goals, (c) organisation structure, (d) purchasing policies and procedures, (e) degree of centralisation in purchasing, and (f) evaluation and reward system. These variables particularly influence the composition and functioning af the buying centre, and also, the degree of centralisation or decentralisation in the purchasing function in the buying organisation.

The functioning of buying centre is influenced by the organisational variables, the environmental variables, and the individual variables. The output of the group decision-making process of the buying centre includes solution to the buying problems of the organisations and also the satisfaction of personal goals of individual members of the buying centre.

The strengths of the model, developed in 1972, are that it is comprehensive, generally appicable, analytical, and that it identifies many key variables which could be considered while developing marketing strategies by industrial marketers. However, the model is weak in explaining the spesifiec influence of the key variables.

BUYER AND SALES REPRESENTATIVES INTERACTION

The most important part of buyer-seller relationship is the interaction between a representative of the buying organisation (buyer) and a representative of the selling organisation (sales representative or sales rep). There are many other persons from both the organisations involved in the relationship, but the basic building bolck of the relationship is based on buyer and sales rep’ interactions.
When the buyer and the sales rep meet, the nature of their interactions depend upon their roles, behaviour, and perceptions.
Buyer’s Perception of Sales Representative
There are two major perceptions held by buyers of sales representatives. One is the stereotypical description of the sales reps, as “talkative”, easy going”,”manipulative”, “competitive”,optimistic”,and “excitable”. An industrial buyer, who does not have previous experience with a particular sales representative, may respond of the sales representative in terms of the stereotype which he has of sales reps in the general. The second major perception of the buyer depends on the reputation of the company which a sales representative represents. Generally, the sales representative of a company with better reputation always gets a more favourable initial response from the industrial purchasers. For example, a sales engineer working with a reputed company like Larsen & Toubro (L&T), often got a positive response from the industrial customers. However, when the same sales engineer change the job to a less reputed company, as a sales executive, the response was not encouraging, as he had to wait for along time before he was called in for discussions.
The Role Played by Industrial Buyer
An analysis of industrial buyer behaviour indicates that personal needs, interaction in the buying centre, an organisational objectives (or needs) determine the response of a buyer to the selling efforts by a sales rep. for example, an industrial buyer may be motivated by a personal need for salary increment and promotion in his job, and also by a social or organisational need to satistfy the user department. A buying decision may allow the buyer to satisfy both the sets of needs. The specific personal and social needs will decide: (i) whether the buyer meets with a sales rep, (ii) which parts of sales rep’s presentation he listens; (iii) the influence of sales presentation on his decision to buy.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

In industrial marketing, the customer service is sometimes more important than the physical product. The customer service supplements the sales of physical product and creates a total value for a customer. The nature of customer service varies based on the type of product and the stage of “ product life cycle”.

In case of mature markets and similar industrial products (i.e. with no major product differentiation), the major part of customer service, is “timely delivery”, and a minor part is the technical support service to the customers. When an industrial prodcut is available from several competitors at competitive prices, then delivery, product quality, and technical service are important differences for deciding major share of business among varies suppliers.

For excample, in case of “precision style tubes” product that was available from 14 different suppliers for a large bicycle manufacturer, the most important factor was just-in-time delivery which helped the bicycle manufacturer to hold minimum inventory and reduce the cost of inventory carrying. The next important factor was product quality which would reduce the rejection on the shop-floor and improve the productivity of the workers. The price became the third most important factor while deciding how much business share to be given to the three suppliers among the 14 suppliers.

For large equipment or machines, the important elements of the customer service are installation, maintenance and repair, including availability of spare parts and replacement unit. For instance, for diesel generating sets, the important elements of customer service to be considered by an industrial marketer are the installation and maintenance service, as well as, repairs and availability of spare parts. The industrial marketing organisation for diesel generating sets must provide these services through the service centres which should be located close to the customers. It would then be effective and succesful in marketing diesel generating sets in a competitive market.

For a large industri customer, the components and materials suppliers (vendors) build their production or distribution facilities close to the customer. Such arrangements require contractual obligations and long-term buyer-seller relationships.

For example, Escorts Motor Cycle Division has developed a large number of ancillary units very near to their factory. These ancillary units (or vendors) manufacture a large number of components which are required for the manufacture of motor cycles. Escorts were one of the first units in India to deveop ancillary units with long term business relationships and contractual obligations.

Thus, in industrial marketing, customer service is many times a key factor in differentiating suppliers having similar products to offer. We, therefore, find many articles written on the subject of “customer service”, practiced by many succesful organisations.

ABSTRACTION

Purnomo, 10206739, INFLUENCE OF EXPENSE OF PROMOTION ON SALES REVENUE TO SHOP OF RAMAH ELECTRICAL.

PI. Management, Faculty Of Economics, University of Gunadarma, 2009

Keyword: Influence of Expense of Promotion, Sales Revenue.

Promotion is conducted activity by company to give information about a product covering promotion hotchpotch like Promotion sales and personal of selling. In this writing, writer try to explain the expense of promotion conducted by Electrical Ramah Shop to sales revenue. Target and this research formula to be able to see the image of how activity of promotion at Electrical Ramah Shop in improving sales revenue. Of evaluation result can be concluded that in face of improvement of sale out for Shop face with promotion expense. Pursuant to solution, run by Electrical Friendly Shop have good enough. This matter can be seen from simple linear analysis and strong correlation which come near 1, during last 5 year. ( 2004-2008).

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INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION ON SALES REVENUE TO SHOP OF RAHMAH ELECTRICAL

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