Service sizing as new business model②

<Reduced environmental impact and greater customer benefits>

The business model that contributes to reducing the environmental impact of "green servicing sizing" is also in the servicing sizing. As a feature of the service sizing mechanism, because the ownership of the product is on the side of the services provider, it contributes to the proper processing of used products and the promotion of resource recycling (recycle) that the used product comes back to the donor. The "Akari Safety Service" developed by Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic) in 2002 is an example of the green services sizing. Matsushita Electric has been a top manufacturer in the production of fluorescent lamps and has been selling fluorescent lamps to users. When a large-scale office or factory that uses a large amount of fluorescent light is connected to the contract of "Akari Safety Service", the maintenance from the lending of the fluorescent lamp at a flat rate at a fixed price during the contract period, recovery of the used fluorescent lamp, the collection instruction to the consignment processing contractor It provides a total service to the issuance of manifests, storage, management and proper processing of processes. The biggest feature is not to sell fluorescent lamps, but to provide the function of "Akari" while leaving the manufacturer's ownership of the fluorescent light to the end. Although it is conceived in the midst of a low price competition, it is a form of function offer service, but the manufacturer has the merit that the collection and the proper processing of the used fluorescent lamp can be done, and the cost reduction and the waste treatment can be performed smoothly for the customer while Toriyuberu the relationship of WinWin to each other.