Kotler ch07 Lecture
Kotler ch07 Lecture
Kotler ch07 Lecture
CHAPTER 7
Organizational
Buyer Behavior
Complex
Large Sums
Technical
of Money
Features
Interactions
Economic
among Many
Considerations
People
Environmental Organizational
Influencers
Interpersonal Individual
General
Problem Product Supplier
Need
Recognition Specification Search
Description
Association
Conventions
Meetings
SMERF
Corporate (Social, Military,
Meetings Educational, Religious
& Fraternal)
• Buying center
– All those individuals and groups who
participate in the purchasing and
decision-making process and who share
common goals and the risks arising
from the decisions
• Convention
– A specialty market requiring extensive
meeting facilities. It is usually the
annual meeting of an association and
includes general sessions, committee
meetings, and special-interest sessions.
• Corporate meeting
– A meeting held by a corporation for its
employees
• Derived demand
– Organizational demand that ultimately
comes from (derives from) the demand
for consumer goods
• Order-routine specification
– The stage of the industrial buying
process in which a buyer writes the final
order with the chosen supplier(s), listing
the technical specifications, quantity
needed, expected time of delivery,
return policies, warranties, and so on
• Performance review
– The stage of an industrial buying
process in which a buyer rates its
satisfaction with suppliers, deciding
whether to continue, modify, or drop
the relationship
• Problem recognition
– The stage of the industrial buying
process in which someone in a company
recognizes a problem or need that can
be met by acquiring a good or a service
• Product specification
– The stage of an industrial buying
process in which the buying
organization decides on and specifies
the best technical product
characteristics for a needed item
• SMERF
– SMERF stands for social, military,
educational, religious, and fraternal
organizations. This group of specialty
markets has a common price-sensitive
thread.
• Supplier search
– The stage of the industrial buying
process in which a buyer tries to find
the best vendor
• Supplier selection
– The stage of the industrial buying
process in which a buyer receives
proposals and selects a supplier or
suppliers