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Sustainability
The ability for our society to exist and develop without depleting all of the natural resources needed to live in the future. Sustainable development supports this long-term goal with the implementation of systems, frameworks, and support from global, national, and local entities.
PTC Servigistics is doing its part by supporting a sustainable aftermarket service by offering the following functionality:
Embodied Carbon 
Buy Less Through Optimized Inventory
Ensure accurate forecasting and optimal placement of parts and modeling carbon impact
Repair and Reuse More
Optimize the reverse supply chain, part chain, balancing, and de-manufacturing processes
Make the Circular Supply Chain Financially Viable
Reduce the economic threshold to make repair feasible
Harvest components from returned equipment using de-manufacturing and disassembly
Increase the Useful Life of a Product
Increase the supportable period by efficient use of Last Time Buy, repair and upgrade opportunities
Emissions, Pollution, Regulatory 
Reduce disposal costs
Reduce excess inventory and increased use of repair; by extending useful life
Reduce Transportation
Reduce less efficient emergency shipments and consolidate transportation
Embodied Carbon and Emissions 
Support Reliability Improvement
Provide reliability feedback and economic value to product design
Carbon Tax 
Calculate expected carbon tax
Support optimizing to minimize the sum of carbon tax and ROP value while satisfying the Service Group targets, constraints, and overrides.
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