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MLPi’s Vendor Programs assist high technology manufacturers – from industry leaders to early-stage companies – in generating incremental sales opportunities with a wide range of unique and flexible leasing programs. Our cost-effective 6 to 60-month lease terms allow manufacturers to offer a wider range of financing options to their prospective customers.

MLPi invests in strategic and industry-leading technology equipment. Manufacturers benefit from MLPi’s expertise and our more than 40 years experience as a partner to technology-driven manufacturers.

Key Manufacturer Benefits
At MLPi, we recognize:
  • Your need for prompt credit approval
  • Your desire to sell more
  • Your need to increase market share
  • Your customers’ desire to “keep it simple”
  • Your distinctive product deserves unique marketing support
An MLPi Vendor Program provides high technology manufacturers and other vendors with a competitive edge by:
  • Enabling you to place equipment with customers with tight capital budgets.
  • Providing a means to reach project-driven organizations.
  • Providing your customers with financing flexibility and options the competition may not have OR does have and has already offered.
  • Creating incremental sales by making equipment more affordable and attractive to end-users.
  • Providing immediate revenue recognition – the equipment is sold to MLPi for cash and on a non-recourse basis.
  • Building brand recognition.
  • Increasing product penetration in new target markets.
  • Encouraging customer on-site evaluation of equipment without requiring long-term commitments.
  • Transferring customer credit and product obsolescence risks to MLPi
  • Enabling you to sell product now while, at the same time, offering customers the means to evaluate the equipment prior to purchasing it.
  • Shortening prospects’ decision, approval and order process significantly, thereby accelerating sales.
  • Offering off balance sheet, operating lease financing.
  • Strengthening customer relationships.
Key End-User Benefits
If you are a high tech manufacturer or vendor, MLPi’s short-term and intermediate term leases provide additional benefits beyond standard commercially available lease programs. Adding 6 and 12-month leases to your sales arsenal gives you a competitive edge by complimenting your existing lease offerings and delivering added benefits to your customers:
  • Greater flexibility. At the end of the lease the customer may continue the lease, apply rental credits toward equipment purchase or return the equipment.
  • Opportunity to evaluate equipment, with an eye to a possible future purchase.
  • Affordable means to obtain valuable technology to grow their businesses.
  • Provides access to technology for special projects or needs beyond existing capital budget limitations.
  • Reduced equipment appropriation approval times.

Vendor Program Expertise
Manufacturers and vendors can count on MLPi to understand the intricacies of their technology business. Since 1963, MLPi has pioneered short-term leasing programs for a wide range of manufacturers of high technology equipment. By partnering with MLPi, you provide short-term leases to your customers, with no administrative headaches.

Examples of lessees served under our manufacturers’ lease plans include:
  • Defense contractors
  • Research institutions
  • Semiconductor fabricators and packagers
  • Computer hardware manufacturers
  • Automotive manufacturers
  • Retailers
  • General office, including both product and services companies
  • Electronics Manufacturing Services Industry
Equipment in which MLPi specializes includes:
  • Scientific, analytical and laboratory
  • Semiconductor fabrication and test
  • Medical diagnostic
  • Electronics manufacturing
  • Electronic test and measurement
  • Industrial-grade refrigeration
  • Machine tools
  • Diagnostic and repair instruments
  • Inspection and failure analysis systems
  • Laser systems

Manufacturer/Vendor Success Scenarios
The following scenarios show how short-term leases can benefit both equipment manufacturers and end-customers. Although these are fictional manufacturers and end-customers, they portray real-life scenarios that demonstrate features and benefits of short-term leases.

I. High-tech equipment manufacturer increases sales with MLPi 12-month lease

A mid-sized manufacturer was able to deliver a $200,000 precision measuring machine to a customer along the eastern seaboard. With a limited capital budget, the end-user sought technology that could increase its production capacity while also reducing the number of product units failing in final tests. Financing was the only obstacle.

Through its program with MLPi, the equipment manufacturer was able to immediately offer the customer a six-month lease. Leasing allowed the customer to evaluate the new equipment without any impact on the company’s balance sheet. This flexibility made the difference. Had it had not been for the availability of a short-term lease and the opportunities it opened, the customer would have further deferred the investment and the manufacturer would have lost the sale. Instead, the manufacturer immediately recognized a sale to MLPi.

Furthermore, the end-customer found that the equipment significantly improved quality assurance in its production while reducing costs. After six months with a thorough understanding of the equipment’s return on investment and savings, the customer decided to purchase the equipment from MLPi at a price which included a credit for much of the rent it had paid.

II. MLPi bridges instrument and measuring manufacturer with scientific research institution

MLPi’s manufacturing partner, an instrument and measuring provider, supplies several technologies that analyze air quality and test for gases and contaminants.

One of the nation’s top research institutions had a special and limited time need for air quality analyzers to fulfill a contract involving studies of a new pharmaceutical product. A short-term lease through MLPi provided the research institution the ideal financing option. Since the institution could only foresee using the equipment for this specific project, the cost of owning the equipment far outweighed the benefits. A longer-term lease was also unfeasible since the institution’s contract was only for one year. A traditional equipment lease agreement would have meant both additional monthly payments as well as hidden costs such as storage space and equipment maintenance. With a short-term rental, the research institution was able to apply the monthly rental cost as an operating expense of the project.

The research institution is currently using the equipment for its project and will evaluate its options following the one-year lease. At that time, the institution can decide to purchase the equipment with rental credits applied, return the equipment with no further obligations, or renew the lease.

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