John Platko, Executive VP of Strategy & Innovation, presents on emerging trends in the remanufacturing supply chain.

1. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
ADVOCATE COLLABORATE EDUCATE
John Platko | EVP Strategy & Innovation | Antea Group
World Remanufacturing Conference

2. Antea Group is a publicly traded global engineering and
environmental consulting firm w/annual revenues of $2B.
Antea Group is a majority shareholder of the Inogen
Environmental Alliance, offering 4,300 consultants in 160
offices with experience on six continents.

3. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
The Experts Top Trends
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1. Service chains will become more
important than product chains
6. Big Data analytics for device/
component performance
2. Changing perceptions for pre-
owned devices (quality vs costs vs
price)
7. Balance between offer and demand
of Core through Artificial
Intelligence
3. Design for remanufacturing and
reverse logistics leading
8. Complex supply chains, where the
customer becomes the supplier,
technology rules planning
4. Less obsolesce strategies, more
Product Life Cycle Management
integrated in business strategies
9. Selection of remanufacturing
locations
5. Need for more stakeholders
incentives across the supply chain
10. More partnerships needed across
the Value Chain

4. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
But Are We Missing Something?
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is ‘green’ an accelerator of growth?
 “RE”
SUPPLY CHAIN

5. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
While Headwinds Remain…
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“…by keeping components and their
embodied material in use longer,
significant energy use and emissions to air
and water can be avoided... in addition to
opportunities for the creation of highly
skilled jobs and economic growth.
Despite these positives, remanufacturing
is an undervalued part of the industrial
landscape and an under-recognised,
sustainable industry. ”
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6. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Enablers & Accelerators Are Appearing
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7. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Circular Economy
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8. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Trend Towards ‘Servicizing’
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Product Lifecycle
• maintenance
• updates
• repairs
• upgrades
• reconditioning
• refurbishment
• remanufacturing
• parts harvesting

9. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Service Emphasis & Shared Value
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Design Leadership
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new thinking & designs are
helping to leading the way

11. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Yet Practical Challenges Remain
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12. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Getting Stuff Back
Challenges of Reverse Logistics
• not a ‘one size fits all’ solution
• aggregation
• lack of clear return policies
• absence of a reverse logistics
performance management and
accounting systems
• little recognition of reverse logistics as
enabler of a competitive advantage
• cross-border and regulatory hurdles
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13. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Finance & RE Supply Chain Growth
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14. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
Customer Perceptions of ‘RE’
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dirty, disgusting, poor quality attractive price
damaged, not fully functional, risky environmentally friendly
doesn’t offer same enjoyment as new b2b/govt. procurement preference
not readily available - hassle to find …more?

15. EMERGING TRENDS: REMAN SUPPLY CHAINS
So What Does It All Mean
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we’ll need all the ‘greens’ to accelerate growth!
“RE”
SUPPLY CHAIN
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16. Thank You
Nestor Coronado Palma
CEO, Value Loops
nestor.coronado@valueloops.eu
+31 620520982
John Platko
Exec. VP, Strategy & Innovation | Antea Group
john.platko@anteagroup.com
+1.941.650.2523
LinkedIn Profile | www.anteagroup.com
Antea Group on LinkedIn

17. Links to Publications
ENR, Remanufacturing Market Study, November 2015
https://www.remanufacturing.eu/wp-
content/uploads/2016/01/study.pdf
CE100, Empowering Repair, October 2016
https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/assets/downloads/ce
100/Empowering-Repair-Final-Public1.pdf
bsi., Executive Briefing BS 8001 – a Guide
https://www.edie.net/downloads/Executive-Briefing--BS-8001---a-
Guide/227
CE100, Waste Not, Want Not - Archetype2: Service Parts
Logistics
https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/assets/downloads/ce
100/Reverse-Logistics.pdf
Money Makes The World Go Round
https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/assets/downloads/ce
100/FinanCE.pdf