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Life-Cycle Cost Analysis. By Melina Meseroll Campus Sustainability Intern for the Green Purchasing and Procurement Department. Questions. What is Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and what is the Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Tool? Who will use the tool? Why is this tool being created?.
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Life-Cycle Cost Analysis By Melina Meseroll Campus Sustainability Intern for the Green Purchasing and Procurement Department
Questions • What is Life-Cycle Cost Analysis and what is the Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Tool? • Who will use the tool? • Why is this tool being created?
What is Life-Cycle Cost Analysis? • Life-Cycle Cost Analysis is the measurement of Life-Cycle Cost • In our case, we will be measuring the Life-Cycle Cost of products we purchase all the time “Life-Cycle Cost”: The pollutants, land use, and raw material extraction that go into the manufacture, transport, use, and disposal of a product.
The LIFE-CYCLE of an Apple Computer www.apple.com/environment
So now that we have a some-what firm grasp of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, what is the LCCA Tool and what will it be used for?
TERMINOLOGY: • CruzBuy= UCSC’s eCommerce Portal (like Amazon!) • Requesters vs. Buyers: • Requesters= faculty and staff on campus that send in requests to the Purchasing Department, asking to purchase products • Buyers= staff within the Purchasing Department that receive the requests and ensure compliance with policy
What is the Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Tool? (Better known as the LCCA TOOL) • The LCCA Tool will measure the Life-Cycle Cost of products within CruzBuy • The buyers will use the Tool LCCA Tool I’m a Happy Buyer =
Increase awareness of GreenWashing • Increase the purchase of Environmentally Preferred Products (Refer to graph) GOALS