While dining with Silicon Valley executives in February 2011, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to manufacture iPhones in the United States. Jobs, in his straightforward tone, replied: “These jobs aren’t coming back!” Surprisingly, only two years later, Jobs’s successor Tim Cook announced Apple’s plans to bring some manufacturing jobs home […]

The discussion over shifting manufacturing activities (specifically for electronics) from foreign countries to the United States has been going on for a couple of years. The notion of a large-scale relocation of manufacturing capacity is overblown, but several recent examples make it worthwhile to examine whether electronics manufacturers ought to reshore their manufacturing. Motorola […]

The rising American economy isn’t lifting all boats — and may even sink some. As the U.S. looks set to accelerate, economists from Bank of America Corp. to Morgan Stanley predict it will provide less oomph abroad than it once did, partly because of changes wrought by the financial crisis and recession. The new-look America […]

☛ Want the latest procurement and supply chain news delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for the Supply Management Daily 6 October 2013 | Gurjit Degun Low-cost production could move to the Philippines, with Turkey, Poland, China and Mexico becoming more valuable as consumer markets. That’s according to new analysis by PwC, which put it down […]