There is a term that is not known to many people, except if you are in the logistics business, this term is “Reverse Logistics”. What is reverse logistics? The normal logistic or forward logistics of any product goes from row materials, to components, and finally to assembly. Check the graphic below.

COVID will transform how we manage our supply chain as well as where and how production lines are operated, in ONILOG we are studying our new reality and how may we adapt to it and how to create value thru innovation. After reading article “Cultural Innovation’ by Douglas Holt, I found a guideline to companies as agile and entrepreneurial as we are to create value in a more efficient manner.

The pandemic has brought substantial changes in the way we do businesses. New ways to sell, market, distribute and to contact the final customers. This is happening not so much for the so- called “B2C” or sales from “Business to Final Customer”, but also for the “B2B” or sales from “Business to Business” in a value chain.

Moreover, and prior to the pandemic, there was already convulsive activity in the international trade with the, so-called by the global news media, “trade war” between the United States of America and China.

At ONILOG we are aware COVID has drastically changed the way industrial and commercial supply chains are planned and should be managed.

The supply shock that started in China in February and the demand shock that followed as the global economy shut down exposed vulnerabilities in the production strategies and supply chains of firms just about everywhere. These developments, combined with the US-China trade war, have triggered a rise in economic nationalism.