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 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 […]
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 […]
Eventually, the Hildebrand facility will make 16 million pair of socks per year on advanced-manufacturing knitting machines. Ken Elkins Senior Staff Writer- Charlotte Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ A 60-employee sock plant in the small town of Hildebrand tomorrow becomes a symbol for returning textile production back to the U.S. and bringing new […]
One of the more interesting recent innovations in sourcing IT expertise is onshoring. Simply put, onshoring is providing traditional offshore IT services (e.g., software development or infrastructure maintenance) in a traditionally high-cost geography such as the US or Europe. These services provide nearly the same low-cost structure as traditional offshoring, yet have the benefits of […]
One of the more interesting recent innovations in sourcing IT expertise is onshoring. Simply put, onshoring is providing traditional offshore IT services (e.g., software development or infrastructure maintenance) in a traditionally high-cost geography such …
Ahilia Inc., a global services, outsourcing and technology marketing consultancy, announced that Everest Group, a leading advisory and research firm in the global services space, is the Research Partner of RevAmerica 2015, the only national conference dedicated to U.S. domestic sourcing (onshoring) of IT and BPO services. “We are excited to […]
During the Great Recession many U.S. companies pursued outsourcing arrangements overseas to take advantage of lower labor costs and reduced taxes. Now the economic climate has changed, and many companies are “reshoring” by bringing outsourced jobs back. And Utah stands to benefit from this new trend, especially […]
My colleague Jonathan Webb, who, as head of strategy research at Procurement Leaders, has his finger on the pulse of the function, recently blogged about the supposed trend of re-shoring. Despite the hype, there is no such trend, he writes. In fact, the trend may be in the other direction, his research […]
Rebuilding the UK’s fractured manufacturing supply chains is not going to happen on a significant scale without a major policy effort. I’ve been banging on about the reshoring opportunity for some time and a new report reinforces what I’ve been saying. Reshoring in some industries could add £15.3 billion to the UK economy and create hundreds […]
