From materialfluss 5/2020
Intra Logistik: How long can you do without blueberries from Burundi?
The corona crisis is the hour of logistics. Mail order and CEP services are hitting top form, working from home and hoarding are even causing delivery problems for Amazon, and the DHL man is complying with all hygiene regulations by placing your parcel exactly two meters away from your feet, handing you his handheld, pressing his pen into your hand and asking for an autograph.
However, the coronavirus crisis has highlighted the failure of supply chains in particular. One example: Franz Mensch, a supplier of hygiene products in the Allgäu region, has excellent logistics, motivated employees and the most modern distribution center - and was unable to meet the needs of its customers at the beginning of the crisis because the Minister of Health was not listening and because the supply chains were lost somewhere in the China Sea. The same thing happened to car manufacturers, and even the most hoarding home office hero would have given a packet of flour and two rolls of three-ply for a webcam or a headset with less than three months delivery time.
You can do without blueberries from Burundi for a while yet. But the example of the supply of medicines produced in India or China shows even the most ardent globalizer that global sourcing is not always the best and that tomatoes from China, grown in East Africa and relabelled in Italy, do not make the pizza at "Da Enzo" in Herne-Eickel any more exotic.
Perhaps we should think about something really crazy: local sourcing. Do we really need a global supply network for all products? Or won't a medium-sized manufacturing company in Sauerland do? Isn't it an opportunity for the Minister of Economics and Finance to invest in the expansion of such structures after the crisis instead of handing out money so that cheap purchases can be made in the Far East again? Online manufacturing platforms such as Spanflug or Laserhub show how local sourcing is being redefined. Or the fact that since the introduction of mandatory masks, you can suddenly get masks everywhere - handmade in Germany if in doubt.
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