LFI's Strategic Differentiators
The all encompassing advantages of the LFI commercial equipment “One Stop Shop” is situational to each of our business clients.To provide our existing and future clients with the essential information needed to make the best, and most informed decision for their respective organizations, the LFI top strategic differentiator summary was developed. These differentiators provide the primary rationale for why diverse global businesses will continue to choose our services over traditional industry norms and practices to satisfy their diverse and growing commercial equipment financing, consulting and service based needs.
Vast and Unrivaled Global Funding Source Alliance Network (Top)
Leveraging a vast global
alliance network of U.S. and international funding
sources, LFI provides our customers with highly customized and
specifically tailored leasing and financing programs, accommodating
the full spectrum of commercial equipment types, financing terms, transaction
sizes, client credits, customized financial structures and geographic locations.
This innovative service enables LFI to provide a significantly more comprehensive
suite of services to our clients with a cross industry efficiency
that is unparalleled in the marketplace and difficult to rival. By
strategically combining LFI’s innovative service methodology with its unique
competitive positioning, the company is optimally positioned to provide
the best possible comprehensive “single sourced” financing solution available
to satisfy any and all of our clients growing and diverse equipment acquisition
financing needs.
Comprehensive “End to End” Equipment Service Based Alliance Network
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LFI has developed an equally effective and strategic equipment service provider
alliance network which enables LFI to simply and cost effectively provide global
customers a "single source" mechanism, accommodating virtually any major non-financing
equipment related service need or requirement. Thus, LFI is able to "volume leverage" a
continually growing alliance network of diverse equipment service providers covering
most major areas of commercial equipment centric services (i.e. remarketing,
refurbishing, appraisals, valuations, physical inventories, dispositions, freight
forwarders, shipping, asset management, etc.). By continually growing this relationship
based alliance network, LFI is uniquely able to develop optimal and cost efficient
equipment service solutions for any customer need, whether that need calls for one service or several,
inclusive of financing or not and located anywhere within the continental U.S or "non-hostile" global arena.
The ultimate LFI goal is to provide a tailored customized service solution that is "modular based", enabling LFI to
satisfy our clients diverse needs with any service or suite of service combination.
Complete and Total “Transactional Independence”
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As a market leader and one of the industry's most innovative global super brokers, LFI strategically brings together U.S.
and international funding sources, consultants, and diverse equipment service providers to effectively satisfy virtually any
commercial equipment leasing, financing or service based challenge. Although there is a multitude of advantages inherent in LFI's
service methodology, none is more important to our clients than LFI's alliance/vendor independence and neutrality. It is
this strategic positioning within the marketplace that enables LFI to consistently develop and implement customizable long-term
financing and service solutions for each of our clients diverse equipment acquisition through disposition needs. LFI's independent
and neutral status ensures and underscores our ability to listen to the specific, and ever changing, needs and requirements of
clients. In this capacity, LFI essentially functions as an industry expert and trusted advisor, engaging as a value added
consultant to each client's progressive operations and initiatives. Simply stated, by maintaining an alliance/vendor independence
and neutrality, LFI is never beholding or coercible to the transactional or operational guidelines of any one alliance or vendor
within our network. Therefore, LFI is able to identify, negotiate and oversee the lifecycle management of any leasing, financing
or service based program, ensuring that each solution is always structured in the best possible long-term interest of our diverse
business customers.
The Commercial Equipment “One Stop Shop”
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The development of the commercial equipment "One Stop Shop", is LFI's strategic answer to the growing inefficiencies and confusion
within the marketplace. This service was developed to provide businesses of every size, industry of operation or geographic location,
a single source, web enabled point of contact for any type of commercial equipment leasing, financing, consulting or related
equipment service. In addition, LFI introduced the commercial equipment "One Stop Shop" e-commerce portal with the ability to
accommodate the needs of both internet savvy and non-internet established businesses. LFI integrated the technological platform
into its knowledge centric virtual call center of highly experienced industry professionals to deliver the broadest array of
leasing, financing, consulting and related equipment services for business the world-over. In LFI's view, it is not a matter of
identifying and developing "a solution" for our clients, but rather identifying and implementing the most "optimal solution"
available.
Cutting Edge - Internet Based Virtual Trade Center “VTC”
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LFI is a "Global Finance and Services Super-Broker" bringing together a vast array of global funding sources and equipment service
providers into one centralized web based virtual trade center known as the LFI Virtual Trade Center ("VTC"). The "VTC" is the
nucleus of LFI's innovative effort to raise the standard level of industry service available to global businesses, and from a
service methodology perspective, fundamentally re-invent the way in which commercial equipment financing and related services
are provided. Through the integration of cutting edge web-based e-commerce technology and a centralized virtual repository of
global commercial equipment leasing, financing, consulting and service based professionals, LFI developed a commercial
equipment service offering which has elevated available industry service levels. LFI fully recognized the essential market
need to accommodate any business, regardless of internet savvy, e-commerce strategy or online capability. For this reason,
LFI developed service offerings with the ability to transact business equally efficient via the internet or other more
traditional methodology (i.e. phone, fax, etc.). Armed with some of the best internet technology available, and an
experience/expertise base of significant industry and global proportions, LFI's team of professionals are there to guide
our business clients through the required processes, serving as both valued consultant and staff extension throughout the
life of any contractual arrangement. The goal is the ultimate assurance that customer expectations are not just met, but
exceeded and that intended service programs optimally satisfy both the client's current and foreseeable future needs.
Global Experience, Capability and Service Based Simplicity (Financing, Consulting & Services)
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Unlike most funding sources, brokers, consultants or equipment service providers who concentrate service offerings in
"vertically narrow industries" or "geographically limited regions", LFI seeks to transcend both vertical equipment
financing/service marketplaces and the multitude of domestic and international borders to provide our clients "virtually
unlimited" leasing, financing and equipment service based solutions on a truly global basis. By combining the leveraged global
experience and expertise of LFI's "VTC" professionals, a cutting edge web enabled technological platform and an ever-expanding
network of diverse global commercial equipment leasing, financing and service based alliances, LFI delivers to the global business
community, a comprehensive suite of services. In an effort to create enhanced transactional simplification and a higher degree of
operational cost efficiency, LFI uniquely categorized the commercial equipment universe into eight (8) broad equipment
categorizations. In similar regard, LFI based all of it's services programs on a "Modular Customization Basis" which provides
clients with the utmost flexibility to structure commercial equipment financing and related service solutions in the optimum manner. The ultimate emphasis and greatest advantage, for the client, in Modular Service Customization is the tremendous flexibility to create and tailor solutions for each individual client need whether that need calls for a simple commercial equipment lease or a structured equipment financing solution with multiple integrated equipment related services
The LFI Competitive Edge & Advantage Matrix
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LFI’s competitive
advantages are the identical limitations that plague the industry
as a whole. In this regard the following represents ten (10)
of the industry’s most significant competitive and operational limitations
with subsequent LFI competitive edge and advantage rationale.
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