No one told Keith Scheffler that moving his plastics manufacturing business from Asia to Lowell, Ark., would be easy, even if Wal-Mart Stores is the company’s largest customer. Scheffler, owner and CEO of Creative Things, said onshoring the business has been a five-year process and he’s still trying to figure it all out with the […]
Reshoring News
The speed of manufacturing is accelerating, requiring a combo of nearshoring and unified communications. The manufacturing industry is changing how it operates. In many ways, it’s not unlike changes we’ve seen before. Manufacturers have always focused on being close to suppliers and customers. To accomplish this, and to produce enough inexpensive products to meet […]
In an economic age where many companies are returning their manufacturing operations from overseas to in part satisfy consumer demands and also save money, an Arkansas-based company already has that advantage. Pace Industries’ corporate headquarters are in Fayetteville and it’s the central office for the company’s 17 locations (10 divisions) in North America (United States […]
Manufacturing is a tough, competitive business. Shipping across oceans has become cheap, as has international communication, so offshoring, reshoring or never changing are vital decisions. The outlook for manufacturing activity in the United States depends on many factors, including the overall state of the economy. In this article, though, I focus on the offshoring/reshoring issue: […]
Manufacturing is a tough, competitive business. Shipping across oceans has become cheap, as has international communication, so offshoring, reshoring or never changing are vital decisions. The outlook for manufacturing activity in the United States depends …
Reshoring Or Offshoring: U.S. Manufacturing Forecast 2015-2016 Forbes
Manufacturing is a tough, competitive business. The brightest prospects for factories here in the United States involve those that use a lot of natural gas, not …
Executive director Anusorn Muttaraid told The Nation last week that the Bt77-billion power supply and electronic components company, whose earnings come mostly from abroad, should not be subjected to Thai corporate income tax. The company has raised this issue with many governments in the past and the current one. Its message is […]
There’s something that has caught my attention with regards to the global economy — China and Mexico are losing jobs that had been shipped to those countries by companies currently headquartered in America. It’s called ‘reshoring’ and it’s becoming something more and more common with each economic development announcement that has been made […]
Chicago, Illinois – The Reshoring Initiative, an organization dedicated to bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States, has launched an economic development solution that can be used by regional, state and local agencies to identify opportunities to attract production facilities and promote sourcing from existing businesses in their areas. The solution offers […]
Control freaks, blame games, and other misguided attempts at building a better business through IT outsourcing. There’s still no script for the Great American IT outsourcing project. But today’s most common outsourcing pitfalls have less to do with technology and everything to do with relationships and communication. Or lack thereof. “Both companies have to […]
