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UNCTAD sees cause for concern in sluggish trade growth

December 21, 2016
Part of the reason for this is that global value chains are shortening. Many countries, including those in East Asia, are reshoring and consolidating manufacturing production processes.
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Robotics End-of-Arm Tooling to Post a Steady CAGR of 9% until 2020, Says Technavio

December 21, 2016
With a large consumer market in the US, strengthening the economy, reshoring, and low gas prices, these companies have to increase their production capacity in the plants, which will boost the adoption of industrial robots in the country, fueling the …
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4 Outsourcing challenges that are reshaping business strategies

December 21, 2016
2. Increasing demands for reshoring Reshoring, also called onshoring or backshoring, is the process of re-absorbing previously outsourced services into one’s in-house operations. Plenty of factors are driving this trend, and one is the rising costs …
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Cheaper, simpler, better for customers: Outsourcing without trade-offs

December 20, 2016
Instead of “insourcing” or “reshoring,” a revamped approach to outsourcing can improve customer experience, explains Vodafone Spain’s Carmen López-Suevos Hernández in an interview. As a key player in Spain’s intensely competitive mobile …
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Krugman on those lost rust belt jobs

December 19, 2016
Automation is actually a large driver of reshoring, along with the simplification of supply chains, decreasing lead times, lower standard deviation of lead times, quality issues, and IP concerns. Of course, the rising cost of labor overseas plays into this …
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Plastic Molding Manufacturing looks to reshore though acquisitions

December 19, 2016
George E. Danis, Plastic Molding Manufacturing’s CEO, spoke about reshoring of jobs, the importance of being physically close to customers, and Central Massachusetts’ history as a manufacturing region What do you make? Plastic Molding Manufacturing is a …
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Top 20 comment articles on just-style in 2016…

December 19, 2016
Among the most-read comment articles on just-style in 2015 were a look at what the Trump presidency will mean for apparel, the decline and fall of the supply chain manager, whether UK apparel reshoring is really gaining momentum, and why traceability plays …
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The Return of Manufacturing in the United States

December 18, 2016
Add the costs for shipping and handling and it puts many businesses at an offshore disadvantage. By reshoring manufacturing labor, production and delivery costs will decrease, allowing manufacturers to produce more. This, combined with increased quality …
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Companies Likely To Benefit Most From Trump’s ‘Buy American, Hire American’ Policies

December 18, 2016
While Trump’s pro-American business policies may be a major pain to companies that rely on cheap foreign labor, Trump may provide financial incentives for those already “reshoring” U.S. jobs. Rising labor costs in China and other foreign countries …
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Trump’s strategy on protecting U.S. jobs makes some anxious

December 17, 2016
Their numbers have since inched higher. Although no one has precise figures, Harry Moser, an MIT-trained engineer who tracks job-flow trends, estimates that U.S. payroll losses to offshoring dropped to about 60,000 last year from roughly 230,000 a year in …
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