2004 Issue 6
Reman E-News

A Bi-Weekly Review For The Remanufacturing Community
A joint effort by The Remanufacturing Institute (TRI)
and the OEM Product-Services Institute (OPI)

Providing news for the $100B global remanufacturing community:
market trends, innovative offerings, government initiatives, acquisitions, expansions,
professional societies, trade groups, legal rulings, financial results, the environment,
productivity improvements, publications and events.

The OPI & TRI Are Presenting A Conference In Las Vegas On November 1 & 2

MARKETING REMANUFACTURED AFTERMARKET PRODUCTS
How to profitably increase revenues and improve customer satisfaction

• Learn how to craft offerings for customer who demand reman product
• Learn about the different channels of distributions you can use to reach the operators of reman products
• Learn how to choose the “right” price for a reman product
• Learn how to craft a warranty program to “truly” mitigate the customer’s risk of poor reman product quality
• Learn how to sell “insurance stock” management programs using reman products
• Learn how the economy’s lifecycle stage impacts demand for reman products
• Learn how to set-up a virtual warehouse, with partners, to expand your geographical market and the breath of your reman product line
• Learn how to proactively sell to the Department of Defense reman products

Each 75-minute session will provide you with practical and effective ways to improve your profits and make your customers “happy.”  For further details on the above section of our conference go to http://www.bigrshow.com/apics/2004APRA-ConferenceOutline.pdf.  For details of our complete conference go to http://www.bigrshow.com/apics/.


Trade Groups
Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA) Europe Launches Website
Fernand Weiland, APRA’s European Director, has announced the successful launch of
www.apra-europe.org, the new website of the remanufacturing community for automotive parts in Europe. Weiland stated, “APRA can now efficiently communicate with potential and current customers of it’s members, the general public, local politicians and schools, suppliers, production equipment manufacturers, other remanufacturers and the trade and general press.” The official sponsors of the site include: TRW, Lucas, Budweg, Holger Christiansen, Recup, Hitzing and Paetzold, Lucky Luciano and IKA. Weiland added, “This is truly a European focused website. Our stories will be posted in various languages so that the website can benefit all Europeans, regardless of their native tongue.”


Books
A photocopy of the out-of-print “Advanced Service Parts Inventory Control,” by Robert Brown is available, through the permission of the author. To learn more about the contents of this classic book on managing service parts, go to http://www.remansp.org/bob_brown.html.
If you are interested in ordering the book, at a cost of $15, plus shipping, contact the editor.

For an academic perspective of remanufacturing, take a look at “Business Aspects of Closed-Loop Supply Chains.” The book’s editor is Dan Guide of Penn State. Topics covered are:

• End-of-life returns
• Business aspects of closed-loops chains
• Retail reverse logistics practice
• Product recovery strategies
• Contracting and coordination in closed-loop supply chains
• Inventory control in reverse logistics
• Forecasting product returns
• Design engineering for product returns
• The economics of remanufacturing
•  ….and more

For more info on this publication contact Dan Guide at dguide@psu.edu.


Remanufacturing History
Name 3 enterprises that have a combined 100 years+ experience in remanufacturing entire ground vehicles…times up; they are:

• U-haul (still in business)
• Marathon/Checker Cab ( out of business )
• Greyhound Bus (barely in business)

If anyone has stories to share with the reman community regarding the above enterprises, please contact the editor.
 

Join TRI
Only $50/yr to become a member. You get to have your name listed as a member, help to defray some of our costs in putting this newsletter together, help maintain the www.reman.org  web site and help support the Reman U. Contact the editor for further info.


Final Note
We encourage you to forward this newsletter to friends in the remanufacturing community. It is our intent to carry news on all industry sectors. If you have news to share or comments, please contact the Reman E-News editor:
 

Ron Giuntini

rgiuntini@oemservices.org
570.523.0992

Ron Giuntini, Executive Director
PO Box 48
Lewisburg, PA 17837
rgiuntini@reman.org
570.523.0992

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