Product leasing: a strategy to allow manufacturers and customers to benefit from elongation of product life

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Rogers, J G and Rodrigues, A (2015) Product leasing: a strategy to allow manufacturers and customers to benefit from elongation of product life. In: PLATE 2015 Product Lifetimes and The Environment, 17-19 June 2015, Nottingham.

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Abstract

International development means that the number of people who can be considered as consumers is projected to triple by 2030. This is good news but if we consume goods in the same way as people did in the 20th Century it will lead to an unsustainable rise in industrial greenhouse gas emissions and contribute towards material scarcities. The old axioms of maintaining profits by high turnover of low profit margins goods, and boosting demand by releasing new models needs to be reconsidered for a sustainable future. The key point is that people’s needs are met by using goods not just acquiring them. One way of reducing the demand for new goods is to use old ones for longer. This study looked at second hand car data and concluded that cars are scrapped when they have a low market value not when they are worn out. It follows that if the second hand value can be raised, cars could potentially be used for longer. One way of increasing the value of a second hand item to a business is to value it as a future profit generator as well as for its market value. A long term lease model has been considered and found to be potentially beneficial to both the supplier and customer.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords: industrial demand growth; car service life; lifelong car leasing; life extension; environmental implications; financial evaluation
Schools and Departments: School of Engineering and Informatics > Engineering and Design
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Depositing User: Alexandre Rodrigues
Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2019 10:19
Last Modified: 18 Nov 2019 10:19
URI: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/82651

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