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Inovbiz: Jurnal Inovasi Bisnis 8 (2020) 200-207
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Role of Products in Determining Decisions of Purchasing
Dedi Iskamto
Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia, 28293
1. Introduction
Many companies are trying to win the
competition by taking advantage of existing
business opportunities and trying to implement
the right marketing strategy in order to dominate
the market. One of the company's goals is to
maintain the existence of its performance to
achieve a certain growth rate. The company will
try to dominate market share with various
marketing and service strategies with the ultimate
goal of obtaining maximum profits with optimal
performance efficiency levels. In other words,
marketing is one of the activities carried out by
companies in an effort to maintain survival in
increasingly fierce business competition and to
develop their business (Iskamto et al., 2019;
Mohammed & Woodside, 2015).
Products are anything that can be offered to
meet needs and desires. While conceptually the
product is a manufacturer's subjective
understanding of something that can be offered in
an effort to achieve organizational goals, through
fulfilling the needs and desires of consumers in
accordance with the competence and capacity of
the organization and market purchasing power.
Something product must have a competitive edge
to attract consumers. By providing diverse and
varied products, it is hoped that it can meet the
needs and desires of consumers. Maintained
consumer loyalty is expected to increase the
intensity of consumer purchases from time to
time (Iskamto, 2015; Wang & Hazen, 2016).
A quality product has the possibility to
influence the buying behavior of a product, so
having a product that is perceived as being of
high quality means that the consumer's
opportunity to choose is also higher. Quality
products are produced from quality raw materials
and quality employees. Based on the above
background, the authors are interested in
discussing it further as outlined in the form of a
thesis with the title Effect of Products on
Consumer Purchasing Decisions.
This research was conducted at CV.
Syempana Mandiri is a printing company located
in Teluk Kuantan, Riau Province. It receives
orders for printing benner, calendar, business
cards, banners, screen printing, baleho, various
forms of blank and others. There are 13 types of
printed materials produced. Besides that, CV.
Syempana Mandiri also doubles books, exam
questions, exam answer sheets and others. The
company faces stiff competition with many
companies engaged in similar fields.
To be able to maintain its existence,
companies must carefully consider all their
decisions and actions in the field of production,
especially the products they produce. CV sales
data. Syempana Madiri shows a fluctuate trend,
namely in 2009 as many as 185 people in 2010
fell to 176 people (-5%), in 2011 it increased to
223 people (+27%), in 2012 it increased to 238
people (+7%), in 2013 it decreased to 210 people
decreased (-12%).
From the interview results, it is known that
many factors caused the decline in sales,
including printing results not in accordance with
the order, unclean duplication results, misprinted
products, wrong cut products, wrong in
arrangement and others.
The product or service offered will affect the
purchase where if the consumer is satisfied, he
will return to buy the product at the company at a
later date, but on the other hand, if the quality of
the product produced by the company is lacking,
ARTICLE INFO
Received: 30 Juni 2020
Received in revised:
1 November 2020
Accepted: 3 November 2020
Published: 16 Desember 2020
Open Access
This study aims to find a correlation between the effects of the product both in
terms of Variations in size or shape of the product, product quality, type of product,
product utilization and product durability to the consumer's decision to buy the
product. This research is a quantitative study in which to process research data
using SPSS 23. This research was conducted in Kuansing Regency, Riau
Province. The number of samples in this study were 210 with census sampling
technique. The results of data processing obtained that the hypothesis testing with
the t test there is an existence of t-value of 25.904 means t--value = 25.904> t-table
= 1.996 which means the product has a significant effect on consumer buying
decisions. The value of the determinant coefficient (R2) is 0.910.
Keywords: Product, quality, service, Purchase Decision