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Guest opinion: UK auto supply chain accelerates. But change of gear needed – AM-online

March 19, 2015

Author: David Bailey (pictured), professor of industrial strategy, economics and strategy group, Aston Business School “Automotive reshoring really is happening. As noted elsewhere at AM-online this week, contracts worth more than £1 billion that were outsourced to overseas based automotive suppliers back in 2012 are now being delivered by UK-based suppliers, according […]

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GTMA Manufacturing UK 2015 – Engineering Capacity

March 19, 2015

The theme for the 2015 event is ‘Reshoring’, a trend that the GTMA says it’s keen to fully support. The association has established the Reshoring UK initiative whereby its members provide the engineering supply chain into the leading industry sectors. “We have seen countless examples of firms coming to the rescue of […]

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Reshoring and Total Cost of Ownership

March 18, 2015
Reshoring is the most direct solution for many of the hottest supply chain issues. Drastically shortened lead time dramatically reduces the complexity of monitoring all levels of a global supply chain and the importance of longer-term forecasting …
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AUSTECH 2015: A must-attend event with domestic onshoring on the rise – PACE Today

March 18, 2015

The AUSTECH 2015 exhibition, organised by AMTIL is being held in May this year at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. This year’s AUSTECH exhibition comes at the right time, with the fall in the value of the Australian dollar expected to stimulate the manufacturing sector over the coming months. BlueScope Steel boss Paul […]

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Bristol jobs boost as plastics manufacturer Phineas Group brings production home – Bristol Post

March 18, 2015

Comments (0) A SPECIALIST plastics manufacturer has created five new jobs and secured a £100,000 tooling order after reshoring the manufacturing of six products to the UK from China. Phineas Group makes plastic hangers for things such as shoes. Managing director Dan Wright said: “We decided it would be ideal if we were able to manufacture […]

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Auto Supply Chain shifts up a gear but more speed is needed – Birmingham Post

March 17, 2015

Automotive reshoring really is happening. Contracts worth more than £1bn that were outsourced to overseas based automotive suppliers back in 2012 are now being delivered by UK-based suppliers, according to a new report by the UK’s Automotive Council (a body which brings together the industry and the British government). Back in 2012, the Automotive Council […]

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Re-Shoring: Should We Stay or Should We Go? – IEDP (blog)

March 16, 2015

RESEARCH: Sourcing manufacturing in low-wage economies has been conventional business wisdom for decades.  But now rising costs and market volatility are causing companies to consider ‘re-shoring’ and to ask: Where should we be manufacturing? Coming to their aid, Vlerick Business School Professor Robert Boute and Professor Jan Van Mieghem from the Kellogg School of Management have developed a model […]

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RESHORING: MYTH OR REALITY? – Canadian Plastics

March 13, 2015

Popular ideas can be hard to resist. Brian Burke convinced a lot of people that Phil Kessel would turn the Toronto Maple Leafs around, for example. Speaking of things turning around, another popular narrative involves reshoring. According to many, long gone are the dismal days when manufacturing jobs and output were lost due to foreign […]

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The Supply Side: Peds new $16 million plant part of Wal-Mart onshoring effort – The City Wire

March 12, 2015

The opening of a $16 million Peds Legwear plant in Hildebran, N.C., is the latest activity promoted by Wal-Mart as proof of its ongoing commitment to return manufacturing jobs to the United States. Wednesday’s (March 11) opening even included the attendance of U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Stefan Selig. “There has never […]

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Manfacturing Sector Faces Shortage of 2 Million Workers – CPAPracticeAdvisor.com

March 12, 2015

The U.S. is projected to need about 3.5 million manufacturing jobs over the next decade, but as many as two million of those jobs are likely to go unfilled due to the skills gap, according to new research from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute. Two parallel studies—“The Skills Gap in US Manufacturing: 2015 and […]

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