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MARKETING MANAGEMENT
12th edition

7
Analyzing
Business Markets

Kotler

Keller

Chapter Questions
• What is the business market, and how
does it differ from the consumer market?
• What buying situations do organizational
buyers face?
• Who participates in the business-tobusiness buying process?

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Chapter Questions

• How do business buyers make their
decisions?
• How can companies build strong
relationships with business customers?
• How do institutional buyers and
government agencies do their buying?

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SAP’s software applications
automate business functions

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Organizational Buying

Decision-making process by which
formal organizations establish the
need for purchased products and
services, and identify,

evaluate, and choose among
alternative brands and suppliers.
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Characteristics of Business Markets
• Fewer, larger buyers
• Close suppliercustomer relationships
• Professional
purchasing
• Many buying
influences
• Multiple sales calls






Derived demand
Inelastic demand

Fluctuating demand
Geographically
concentrated buyers
• Direct purchasing

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Buying Situation
Straight
Straight rebuy
rebuy

Modified
Modified rebuy
rebuy

New
New task
task


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Systems Buying and Selling
Turnkey solution
desired;
Bids solicited

Prime
Contractors

System
subcomponents
assembled

Second-tier
Contractors
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The Buying Center
Initiators

Initiators
Users
Users
Influencers
Influencers
Deciders
Deciders
Approvers
Approvers
Buyers
Buyers
Gatekeepers
Gatekeepers
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Of Concern to Business Marketers






Who are the major decision participants?
What decisions do they influence?
What is their level of influence?
What evaluation criteria do they use?

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Sales Strategies

Small Sellers

Key Buying
Influencers

Large Sellers

Multilevel
In-depth
Selling


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Types of Business Customers

Priceoriented

Solutionoriented

Goldstandard

Strategicvalue
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Handling Price-Oriented Customers
Limit
Limit quantity
quantity purchased
purchased
Allow

Allow no
no refunds
refunds

Make
Make no
no adjustments
adjustments

Provide
Provide no
no services
services

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Kodak offers
services that
streamline
processes for

hospital
administrators

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Purchasing Orientations
Buying
Procurement
Supply Chain
Management
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Product-Related Purchasing Processes
Routine
Routine products
products
Leverage
Leverage products
products
Strategic

Strategic products
products
Bottleneck
Bottleneck products
products
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Table 7.1 Buy-grid Framework

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Figure 7.1 Organizational Buying Behavior
in Japan

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Methods of e-Procurement







Websites organized using vertical hubs
Websites organized using functional hubs
Direct extranet links to major suppliers
Buying alliances
Company buying sites

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Forms of Electronic Marketplaces

•Catalog sites
•Vertical markets
•Pure play auction sites
•Spot markets
•Private exchanges
•Barter markets
•Buying alliances
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Table 7.2 Vendor Analysis

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Assessing Customer Value
• Internal engineering
assessment
• Field value-in-use
assessment
• Focus-group value
assessment
• Direct survey
questions

• Conjoint analysis
• Benchmarks
• Compositional
approach
• Importance ratings

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Order Routine Specification and
Inventory
Stockless
purchase plans
Vendor-managed
inventory
Continuous
replenishment
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Desirable Outcomes of a B2B transaction:
OTIFNE
OT
On time
IF
In full

NE
No error

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Establishing Corporate Credibility

Expertise

Trustworthiness

Likeability

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Factors Affecting
Buyer-Supplier Relationships

Availability of
alternatives

Importance of
supply

Complexity of
supply

Supply market
dynamism

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Categories of Buyer-Seller Relationships
• Basic buying and
selling
• Bare bones
• Contractual
transaction
• Customer supply






Cooperative systems
Collaborative
Mutually adaptive
Customer is king

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Opportunism

Some form of cheating or
undersupply relative to an
implicit or explicit contract.

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Aramark successfully services
institutional and government markets

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Marketing Debate
 How different is B-to-B Marketing?
Take a position:
1. B-to-B requires special, unique
marketing concepts and principles.
2. B-to-B is really not that different;
basic marketing concepts apply.
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Marketing Discussion

 How might we apply the consumer
behavior topics from Chapter 6 to
B-to-B settings?

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