We run a Corporate Take Back Program because we have to.
Corporate Take Back Programs don’t need to just be a cost center. Connecting to your downstream partner through 2DaLoop helps you uncover insights that can drive an immediate return to Sales, Compliance and Product Development Teams.
Upstream Asset Providers
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“Take-Backs Are a Cost Center — Not a Revenue Channel”
Most corporate take-back programs exist because they must, not because they return value. Without actionable downstream visibility you’re burning budget on collection, storage and processing — and losing resale, parts-recovery and warranty revenue opportunities.
Outcome: Connect to downstream partners to recover immediate revenue and turn take-back into a predictable P&L contributor. -
“Compliance, Audit & Recall Risk”
Regulators and customers expect traceability, secure disposition and timely reporting — yet take-back chains are often fragmented and undocumented. That creates audit failures, fines, and expensive product-recall headaches.
Outcome: Gain end-to-end traceability & auditable proof of disposition to reduce regulatory risk and close compliance gaps. -
“Sales Are Flying Blind”
Sales and account teams usually prioritize new logos, while the most valuable signals live in your disposition stream. Returned units, refurb outcomes and downstream disposition choices reveal which customers are ripe for upsell, which SKUs cause churn, and which field issues need proactive outreach — but those signals are lost when partners only deliver an SLA.
Outcome: Treat your downstream partner as a data partner — map disposition outcomes back to accounts so Sales and AMs can target retention, upsell, and service offers with surgical accuracy.
The Old Way vs. The Unity Engine
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What Organizations currently experience.
❌ Take-backs = cost center.
❌ Sales chase new logos, miss return signals.
❌ Product feedback is delayed.
❌ Ops are manual & variable.
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What the Unity Engine creates.
✅ Take-backs = revenue channel via disposition data.
✅ Disposition data drives account intelligence.
✅ Near-real time field intelligence informs engineering.
✅ Standardized data contracts and automation.
See how the Unity Engine transforms the future of the circular economy.
[PROBLEM SCENARIO]
Our client is a large OEM that operated a corporate take-back program because customers demanded it and regulators required it. The program was run as an administrative obligation: returns piled up, disposition outcomes were opaque, and teams relied on manual spreadsheets and third-party SLAs for updates. Results were predictable — high processing cost, missed recovery opportunities, inconsistent chain-of-custody, and no reliable data to inform Sales, Product or Compliance. In short, the take-back was a cost center they tolerated, not a growth engine they used.
[HOW 2DaLoop HELPS]
2DaLoop connects the OEM to its downstream partners with a standardized data partnership — not another SLA. Disposition events (refurb rates, parts recovered, final disposition, teardown failure modes) are streamed back as structured, auditable records. Real-time traceability and automated compliance reporting eliminate reconciliations and guesswork, while disposition-to-account mapping turns downstream outcomes into targeted signals for Sales and Product teams. The platform also provides curated PLM feeds: prioritized failure modes, SKU-level recovery economics, and verified ESG metrics — all normalized across partners so legacy data silos disappear.
[SPECIFIC OUTCOME]
What was once an unavoidable cost center becomes a measurable revenue line and strategic data source. The OEM reduced processing and audit overhead, recovered high-margin parts and refurbished units for resale, and shortened product improvement cycles by routing prioritized teardown intelligence to engineers. Sales and Account Management used disposition signals to launch targeted retention and upsell campaigns, while Compliance published audit-ready chain-of-custody and sustainability reports. The combined result: lower TCO, new recoverable revenue, faster product fixes, and provable compliance and circularity.
See how an OEM Turned decommissions into sales signals
How it works: 2DaLoop ingests real disposition events from your downstream partners (decommissions, refurb rates, final dispositions) and applies AI to map those events back to accounts, SKUs and geographies. The platform surfaces prioritized sales and AM actions — e.g., customers losing the most active units, SKUs with high refurb success you can resell, and regions with rising decommission rates.
Business outcome: Sales & Account Management get timely, account-level signals to run targeted retention and upsell campaigns, reducing churn and accelerating recoverable revenue.
Complete Material Flow & Chain-of-Custody
How it works: 2DaLoop models the full material flow — production → distribution → customer → collection → primary recycling → downstream processors — and ties every disposition event back to a verifiable chain-of-custody. Standardized data contracts and telemetry ensure downstream partners report the same structured fields (decommission counts, refurb outcomes, recovered BOM, final disposition, timestamps, and partner IDs). The platform stitches those events into an auditable timeline for each unit or SKU, normalizes partner data, and surfaces exceptions (mismatched counts, missing custody links, or non-conforming processe s) for automatic reconciliation. ESG and regulatory reports are generated from the same source of truth, and recovery economics are calculated in-line so recovered materials get credited to the correct product families and regions.
Business outcome: Legacy data silos and reconciliation noise disappear — Compliance gets audit-ready chain-of-custody records, Operations reduces exception handling and TCO, Product sees verified recovery and teardown economics, and Sustainability receives provable diversion and GHG avoidance metrics. The OEM gains both risk reduction and a new, accountable recovery revenue stream because every recovered part or material is traceable and monetizable.
Everything You Need To Transform Your Corporate Take Back Program
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GUIDE
How OEMs convert take-backs into revenue using downstream disposition data.
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VIDEO
One Click to Circularity
Watch a 2-minute walkthrough of how the Unity Engine works—and how it maximizes the value added created by Corporate Take Back Programs. -
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