Article from MHI Solutions Magazine In the past few decades, numerous companies in the U.S., as well as other industrializedcountries, outsourced (aka offshored) manufacturing operations or other business processes to low labor-cost countries, mainly in Asia. This offshoring and outsourcing […]
Almost a third of U.S. executives at large manufacturers plan to add U.S. production over the next five years for goods sold in the U.S. These shorter supply chains will also rely on automation to improve efficiency and control costs, […]
A.T. Kearney recently released its 2014 Reshoring Index®, the first in a series of studies looking objectively at the rate and pace of the return of manufacturing operations to the U.S. In this inaugural Index, manufactured goods flows are tracked […]
The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation announced today that it has released survey results from its 2014 global manufacturing study led by MIT professor David Simchi-Levi and conducted with Supply Chain Digest, and will issue a full report on […]
MHI Board of Governor Dave Lippert recently published a new book on reshoring titled Bringing Jobs Back to the USA: Rebuilding America’s Manufacturing Through Reshoring. The book, co-written with Tim Hutzel, exposes the true cost of offshoring to help American […]