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Marketing - 8
Business Market & Buying Behavior
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Multiple Sourcing | An organization's decision to use several suppliers. |
| Government Markets | Federal, state, county or local governments that buy goods and services to support their internal operations and provide products to their constituencies. |
| Producer Markets | Individuals and business organizations that purchase products to make profits by using them to produce other products or using them in their operations. |
| Business (Organizational) Buying Behavior | The purchase behavior of producers, government units, institutions, and resellers. |
| Reseller Markets | Intermediaries that buy finished goods and resell them for a profit. |
| Reciprocity | An arrangement unique to business marketing in which two organizations agree to buy from each other. |
| Inelastic Demand | The supply and demand for a good or service are unaffected when the price of that good or service changes. |
| Straight Rebuy Purchase | A routine purchase of the same products under approximately the same terms of sale by a business buyer. |
| Value Analysis | An evaluation of each component of a potential purchase. |
| Buying Center | The people within an organization who make business purchase decisions. |
| Joint Demand | Demand involving the use of two or more items in combination to produce a product. |
| New-Task Purchase | An organization's initial purchase of an item to be used to perform a new job or solve a problem. |
| North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) | North American Industry Classification System |
| Sole Sourcing | An organization's decision to use only one supplier. |
| Modified Rebuy Purchase | A new-task purchase that is changed on subsequent orders or when the requirements of a straight rebuy purchase are modified. |
| Vendor Analysis | A formal, systematic evaluation of current and potential vendors. |
| Institutional Markets | Organizations with charitable, educational, community, or other non-business goals. |
| Derived Demand | Demand for business products that stems from demand for consumer products. |