Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer

Use Steps: Use steps include all the customer's value added activities or the consumption of the product itself. These steps include all the costs the customer incurs in employing the product in its intended use.

B.
Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product

1.
Money: Reduce the money the customer uses with the product. For more ideas on using pricing, please see the Improve/Pricing section of StrategyStreet.

B. Reduce the customer's spending on people, purchases or capital costs the customer uses with the product itself

Reduce multiple costs

No.	SIC	Year	Note
1	3500	2003	The Stitch and Wirca systems let vending companies track sales per machine. Stitch may have a small lead over Wirca as it has been in talks with Coca-Cola.
2	4213	2004	In a joint venture with the carmaker, UPS engineers, with input from Reynolds and other dealers redesigned Ford's entire North American delivery network, streamlining everything from the route cars take from the factory to how they're processed at the regional sorting hubs.
3	4812	1997	In today's complex telecommunications world, regional phone companies bill on behalf of other service providers.
4	7374	2000	In the 1960s, ASPs were called service bureaus and they did things like outsource payroll functions for large companies. Today, an ASP is any company that hosts, manages, and rents an application from a central location.

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