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The enterprise facet of the Pandemic? Covid-19 is remodeling itself from the ‘Bad, the Ugly and the Good’ – into the Business-of Things. This is throughout the background of the arrival of a number of kinds of Covid-19 Vaccines around the globe, many weeks in the past. Indeed, the epicenter of world challenges and enterprise alternatives has moved from the ugly pandemic situation of 2019-2020 to the industrial enterprise of Covid-19 vaccine implementation ecosystem.

All over the world, enterprise leaders and policymakers leverage on condensed real-time information and knowledge to realize reliable entrepreneurial enterprise alternatives, values, and equitable company governance for sustainable commerce and enterprise assurances – going ahead to Covid-19 model 2.0.

Emerging analysis final result from the evaluation of content material and thought-process of vision-bearers, traders, modern folks, enterprise analysts is fostering a brand new evidence-based and real-time enterprise mannequin. This mannequin is energized by Covid-19 model 2.0, with a unique sort of condensed challenges. The new problem is returning the world to the routine of regular lifestyle.

Therefore, what will we do when the vaccines arrive in Nigeria?

Implementing a nationwide vaccination rollout plan isn’t a toddler’s play. It calls for a colossal high-level logistics know-how and high-end skilled skillsets in any respect ranges of the rollout spectrum.

When will the pandemic finish? Seriously talking, nobody is aware of. Some forecast estimated 2023, 2026 and a few past these dates. The focus of this piece is to make sure that Africa isn’t overlooked of the big-pie and disconnected from the post-pandemic enterprise community. Rather, African companies ought to discover and acquire real-time enterprise insights, advantages and profitability assurances from the worth chains of the vaccine-propelled world commerce.

The challenges in implementing the Vaccine-to-the-Arm venture comes with its complexities of threat components and requires seamlessly linked business-chain logistics and distribution networks for efficient supply. Some name it e-Commerce process methods, others name it superlative e-platform. Anticipating the challenges which the COVID-19 vaccine distribution pose to Nigeria and Africa means we critically want skilled organisations to ship our vaccine. Luckily, analysis exhibits that Nigeria has dependable inter-connected combos of all of the above.

One out of the mega-pack is the Konga Group.

Effective implementation mannequin has proven that nobody firm has the capability and capabilities to successfully implement the COVID-19 vaccination problem. The handiest working mannequin is what is assessed as ‘Collaborative Resilience’. A typical working mannequin of COVID-19-vaccine supply, proven within the interactive graphics from McKinsey and Co, under, clearly demonstrates the complexity of the duty at hand. Essentially, the interactive is a qualitative threat map, exhibiting the numerous levels of vaccine deployment and highlighting areas of potential failure as one celebration interacts with one other. A breakdown at any level within the deployment course of can set off a cascade, shutting down all the operation!

Today, Konga has change into one of many acclaimed world digital manufacturers in a category of its personal – navigating the mega-business world at 360 levels. I discovered this fact after many months of standard e-business analysis – with explicit deal with Nigeria and Africa’s e-Commerce house. Konga instructions the nationwide attain with its personal high quality infrastructure, digital logistics and monitoring applied sciences for last-mile supply.

When the COVID-19 vaccine comes, how will or not it’s put into the arms of an estimated 170 million Nigerians who want it? How will the logistics be offered and who will handle the implementation logistics? Who has one of the best infrastructure and skilled manpower to safe and ship one of the best end result, much like the INEC electioneering challenges and experiences of 2014 and 2009?

Lessons discovered recommend that the Covid-19 pandemic has change into the best problem confronted by humanity within the final 100 years thus far. It reveals that many countries are nonetheless poor in growing and managing vital info and logistic infrastructures (CILI) at real-time ranges. This is primarily resulting from our collective ignorance in understanding the work-around of the digital connectedness of our world, the imperatives of networked information effectivity, infrastructure and knowledge methods. In impact, many thousands and thousands of the world’s residents have been despatched to their premature dying. Regrettably, many voters will nonetheless die if the arrival, distribution, and vaccination of the vaccines is ignorantly managed by inexperienced entities, poor infrastructure and logistics. Truth is, there could be factors of failure and our major objective is to cut back the factors of failure.

Here is my take: First, the unhealthy information:- COVID-19 pandemic has hit semiconductor chips manufacturing business very laborious. This state of affairs is anticipated to worsen as corporations battle for provides of the vital components. According to AlixPartners, the scarcity will minimize $60.6 billion in income from the worldwide automotive and related industries this yr. The broader implication is that the majority enterprise survival is evolving collaborative mannequin of survival. Considering the truth that, the world might want to ship about 6 x 2 billion doses of vaccine into the arms of the focused six billion of the worldwide human inhabitants of seven.3billion folks, and that Nigeria’s share of the duty would require her to ship about 160 x 2million (or 320million vaccines to the arms of 160 million eligible Nigerians), we should be on prime of the sport.

Point-to-point Data communications effectivity isn’t solely crucial however necessary to reinforce effectivity. The greatest problem in responding to the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccines resides in its logistics know-how, storage, distribution methods security, communications logistics and safety know-how. The Federal Government is subsequently suggested, aside from touchdown the vaccines and associated operational equipment into the nation, to attract up a nationwide rollout strategic plan, fee skilled logistics e-Commerce firm like Konga.com group, with its personal nationwide high quality infrastructure, digital logistics and monitoring applied sciences with efficiency assurances to make sure that the anticipated collateral damages are eradicated and/or decreased to the barest minimal.

Vaccine supply, storage and distribution include high-end security and logistic points. Reliable information evaluation reveals that the Covid-19 vaccine procurement and distribution project must be labeled as a nationwide emergency problem. The project is required to be dealt with with care {and professional} means. Therefore, earlier than the anticipated COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Nigeria, indigenous skilled logistic corporations with observe data much like/or higher than that utilized to ship the 2014 and 2010 INEC nationwide election mission must be consulted and signed on to make sure high quality efficiency.

Konga stays our greatest indigenous e-Commerce logistics firm, comparable in facility administration, infrastructure and top-skill skilled venture administration. Not solely that, amongst others:

• They possess the cognate expertise and ingenuity for fulfillment
• With our weather conditions, Konga Group has the potential and might in few days create vaccine storage capability and commensurate transportation logistics to ship the strategic imperatives
• Records present that Konga has digital 360 Blockchain-enabled warehouses with 24/7 uninterrupted energy provide and Interstate Tier 3 Level safety monitoring/monitoring system
• Also, her AI-controlled warehousing stock methods must be prioritized within the decision-making course of. Fake vaccine and syringes management monitoring system is crucial
• Internet of Things (IoT) alarm-based embedded time clock could be put in in all vaccine supply packages to observe date of expiration of every vaccine pack and syringes

After exploring the Oracle side-of-things, I’ve change into deeply conscious of the truth that the nation is absolutely combating a struggle with an invisible enemy. Alarmed on the above challenges and how you can conquer them, I turned to the grapevine for essentially the most environment friendly sensible and reliable options suppliers. From all of the nooks and crannies, the consensus is that essentially the most skilled tech platforms accredited with high-breed world customary efficiency must be listed to deal with and ship the required providers. Especially those that have been chargeable for delivering superlative end-to-end providers to INEC, in the course of the elections, when procurement, logistic and supply have been the hallmark of success.

With this, the vaccine implementation expertise in Nigeria will undoubtedly profit the remainder of Africa.

Written by Dr. B. B Usman, a Business Analyst