Um estudo exploratório sobre a seleção de fornecedores de aromas e corantes em indústrias de alimentos e de bebidas

Abstract

Studies about organizational buying behavior received greater emphasis since the sixty years, with many works about models for buying and adopted criteria for suppliers selection and decisions, been useful for industrial marketing, and also to the development of purchase strategies. This work wishes to corroborate for better understanding about the subject, studying the suppliers selection for two ingredients, flavors and colors, used by food and beverages industries. The first step of work was a bibliographic review about buying organizations, flavors and colors. After that, the research was developed in two steps. The first seeked the construction of a questionnaire to be applied in the second, by interviewing with opened and non-structured questions specialized professionals in foods and beverages, for better understanding about specificity for flavors and colors. The second step, developed in food and beverages industries, researched the buying centers compositions for flavors and colors, the legal categories for the used products, the general (based on Kannan & tan, 2002) and specifics (based on interviewed professionals) criteria buying decision . Concludes for flavors and colors, that the buying centers are composed by the areas of p&d, quality, purchase, and minors influences from marketing. The most important factors in the suppliers selection are quality, reputation, specialization, be open and honest in the communications, and adopt good manufactory practices. The price is not the most important factor in the buying decision. The use of sensory research is important for both products, and possibly followed by market research. To the food and beverages industries, flavors could be classified as strategic, and colors as critic. The relationship with flavors and colors suppliers could be classified as associated.