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A pallet is one of the basic logistical units to manufacture and transportation industry, with wooden pallets as major use. However, with expensive purchasing price and repairing cost, wooden pallets have always been a problem to enterprises. Also, from an environmental perspective, wooden pallets can hardly be recycled once broken and can cause ecological risk like bringing plant seeds or insects overseas. To a manufacturer, inflexible control of pallet quantity is one of the major difficulties dealing with various, seasonal business peak, often with pallet hoarding or insufficiency in result, either an unnecessary occupying of space, or an urgent, non-bargainable purchase. Product delivery in most SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) in Taiwan depends on transportation companies; therefore, formatted, inflexible delivery cooperation can hardly fulfill needs with small quantity but large variety in Taiwan, causing decreased service satisfaction and company competitiveness. Innovation of business models and rising of sharing economy these years has developed new business markets. A brand-new design of a pallet, combined with technology that comes along with the concept of an industry chain, for example a pallet management with inductive components, can certainly cause an impressive leap forward in logistics. In addition, the concept of sharing economy reorganizes needs and offers in a market, reaching a higher cooperation accuracy and efficiency, forming a new delivery solution if applied in logistics. This technical report analyses a patent on a new pallet design and a patent on a pallet management. This report starts with giving an instruction about the patents, including the design, the logic and the operation behind, and then uses S company as an example, explaining the reason of choosing S company and demonstrating how the patents work and what profit the patents bring out. The result shows that patented management applied in S company saves the cost of purchasing, repairing and scrapping pallets by 90.5%, meanwhile raising the efficiency of pallet management; annual cost of logistics is deducted by 13.33%, also the flexibility of product delivery improves due to application of sharing economy. It is expected that the study results of this report can be used as reference for promoting the patents and can bring out a new generation to manufacture and transportation industry. This report is meant to encourage as many industries as possible to learn and form a sharing economy application, for such application enhances its benefits as its scale grows.
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