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Trump and Sanders’ common cause

by admin on April 12, 2016

And the trend is to bring factories back, not ship more production to China. According to Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative, the balance of jobs leaving and entering the U.S. has essentially evened out over the past two years, with most of …
“Here’s what voters are interested in: Tax reform that discourages offshoring and encourages onshoring; expanding access to apprenticeship and other workforce training programs; major public infrastructure repairs; and ‘Buy America’ government …
AMSCI supported manufacturing supply chains in England to reshore in the UK and improve global competitiveness by encouraging innovative, collaborative projects which established strong, sustainable and balanced growth. Complementing the Regional Growth …

Lew defends sanctions

by admin on March 29, 2016

Research from the non-profit Reshoring Initiative shows that foreign direct investment and reshoring of activity by US-headquartered companies added 67,000 manufacturing jobs to the US in 2015. That slightly exceeded the organisation’s estimate for the …

Reshoring could spur demand for trucking

by admin on March 27, 2016

“The decision to reshore happens one company at a time,” she stressed. “It’s a slow yet steady process that will allow time for the building of the required logistics and transportation supply. There’s a lot of benefit there as it will provide …
In fact, there is evidence that some manufacturing jobs are already coming back to the United States, through a process known as “reshoring,” because Chinese wages are no longer as competitive. General Electric in 2012 brought back nearly 4,000 jobs …
including a rise in both consolidation and reshoring, the latter especially in situations where speed-to-market is important. “Twenty-eight percent of GICs have already implemented SDA across multiple processes and have started reaping the benefits of …

The Pros and Cons of Onshoring

by admin on March 5, 2016

In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, there is a growing belief that offshoring of U.S.-based jobs is rapidly reaching a plateau and that “onshoring” – the repatriation back to the United States of some of that overseas …
Offshoring, reshoring, nearshoring — manufacturing and supply chains around the world are undergoing some seismic locational shifts, many of which the conventional wisdom did not see coming, and for reasons that may surprise you. Morris Cohen …
In the Global Supply Chain, There’s No ‘Shore’ Thing  Knowledge@Wharton

Offshoring, reshoring, nearshoring — manufacturing and supply chains around the world are undergoing some seismic locational shifts, many of which the …