Resilient Supply Chains enabled by the trade of End of Life Products for Remanufacturing (RSC)

在这个项目中，Remade Group专注于通过开发智能分级工具来进一步开发我们的再制造产品电子市场Remade Market，以增强和简化再制造行业的报废材料回收。将报废（EOL）产品返回到供应链进行再制造，使其恢复到全新的功能状态，意味着可以延长产品的使用寿命（200%至300%），从EOL组件中获取剩余价值，并提供上级经济和环境收益。通过这个项目，我们的目标是改变英国工业的采购做法，使需要关键材料的产品将越来越多地在英国采购，再制造和再利用。问题：* EOL产品的质量可变：** 每个EOL产品都是不同的，需要不同的输入来恢复到类似的新条件，其中一些EOL产品无法恢复。因此，批量购买EOL产品对于无法在购买前评估质量的再制造商来说充满了风险。这将通过我们的EOL智能分级工具来克服，简化并改善用于再制造的EOL产品的供应。**缺乏认识：** 目前，来自公共和私营组织的EOL产品往往最终被回收或出售给发展中国家，对以前的所有者没有好处，对英国供应链造成损失。许多采购团队目前并不知道，他们的EOL产品可以通过处置再制造商或通过再制造即服务（RAAS）返回再制造商以供延长使用而作为制造产品返回服务。这将通过对公共和一些私人组织采购团队进行有针对性的调查来解决，以评估他们目前关于报废处理的程序，并探索促进将这些报废产品处理到再制造供应链的机制。总之，本项目的目标是1）开发智能分级工具，以加强和简化再制造行业报废材料的回收，以及2）评估所开发工具的可行性和可扩展性。该项目将促进英国对再制造的吸收，从而带来环境、经济和社会效益。

In this project Remade Group are focusing on further developing our remanufactured product e-marketplace Remade Market by developing a smart grading tool to enhance and streamline the recovery of end-of-life materials for the remanufacturing industry.Returning end-of-life (EOL) products to the supply chain for remanufacturing into a like-new functional state, means that product service life can be extended (200% to 300%), capturing residual value from EOL components and providing superior economic and environmental gains. Through this project, we aim to transform procurement practices within British industry so that products that require critical materials will be increasingly sourced, remanufactured and reused in the UK.**The issues:****Variable Quality of EOL products:** Each EOL product is different and requires different inputs to restore to a like new condition with some EOL products being beyond restoration. Bulk purchasing of EOL products is therefore fraught with risk for remanufacturers who have no way of assessing quality before purchase. This will be overcome by our EOL smart grading tool, streamlining, and improving the supply of EOL products for remanufactured.**Lack of awareness:** Currently EOL products from both public and private organisations tend to end up either being recycled or sold on to developing countries at no benefit to the previous owners and a loss to the UK supply chains. Many procurement teams are not currently aware that their EOL products can be returned to service as manufactured products either through the disposal to the remanufacturers or returned to them for extended use through Remanufacturing as a Service, RAAS. This will be addressed by targeted surveys of public and some private organisation procurement teams to assess their current procedures regarding EOL disposal and to explore mechanisms to facilitate the disposal of these EOL products to the remanufacturing supply chain.In summary, the aims of this project are to 1) Develop a smart grading tool to enhance and streamline the recovery of end-of-life materials for the remanufacturing industry, and 2) To assess the feasibility and scalability of the developed tool.This project will enhance the uptake of remanufacturing in the UK leading to environmental, economic and social gains.