Download or read book Bringing Jobs Back to the USA written by Tim Hutzel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to Tim Hutzel's previous book, Keeping Your Business in the USA: Profit Globally While Operating Locally, this book tells the stories of companies that have sent their jobs outside of the USA and the negative effects this had on the quality of their products and services, employees, supply chain providers, and consumers. Bringing Jobs Back to the USA: Rebuilding America's Manufacturing Through Reshoring reveals the motivation these companies had to offshore their jobs as well as the errors of omission they made by not understanding the true cost of offshoring. Exposing the true cost of offshoring to US organizations and citizens, it supplies concrete suggestions to help government officials and activists prevent offshoring and incentivize reshoring. The book provides food for thought for businesses currently thinking about sending US jobs to foreign countries. Outlining a roadmap for reshoring using a step-by-step methodology, it provides business leaders with the understanding to make the right decisions regarding reshoring their products back to America.
Download or read book Bringing Jobs Back to the USA written by Tim Hutzel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to Tim Hutzel's previous book, Keeping Your Business in the USA: Profit Globally While Operating Locally, this book tells the stories of companies that have sent their jobs outside of the USA and the negative effects this had on the quality of their products and services, employees, supply chain providers, and consumers.Bringing Jobs Ba
Download or read book Reshoring of Manufacturing written by Alessandra Vecchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring – the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas. The aim is to equip readers with a full understanding of the current extent of reshoring, its drivers, and the associated opportunities and challenges. The impact of governments’ economic policies on the location choices of entrepreneurs in an era of globalization is carefully analyzed, drawing on experiences in the United States and Italy, where contrasting encouragement is provided for reshoring decisions. The effect on reshoring of recent developments regarding technology, the environment, and other factors is assessed in depth, and readers will also find close scrutiny of the relationship between reshoring and manufacturing performance. The book will be of interest to all academics, researchers, and practitioners with an interest in the manufacturing industry and will be an excellent teaching aid for a variety of courses in different disciplines at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Download or read book The Manufacturer s Dilemma written by William Reinsch and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Rust Belt to the White House, policymakers, manufacturers, and consumers are debating the merits of reshoring, nearshoring, and building more resilient supply chains in a pandemic world. President Joe Biden has largely maintained many of the previous administration’s trade policies while outlining his own administration’s commitment to “Buy American” and build more resilient supply chains. Supply chain resiliency is defined as the capacity for a supply chain to resist and respond to disruptions, minimizing the time needed to recover operational capacity. Reshoring, on the other hand, occurs when suppliers reduce their dependence on global supply chains by moving production within domestic borders. These pandemic-induced dynamics have complicated industries’ responses to supply chain issues. Should supply chains be built for resiliency or efficiency, and what are the trade-offs between the two approaches? This report assesses how these industries have been affected by the pandemic and how they have responded, particularly whether firms have chosen to embrace resiliency or pursue reshoring.
Download or read book Industry 4 0 and Regional Transformations written by Lisa De Propris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together a group of expert contributors to explorebthe opportunities and the challenges that Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing) is likely to pose for regions, fi rms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging issues like servitization, new innovation models for local production systems and the increase in reshoring. Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations captures the complexity of this new manufacturing model in an accessible way and considers its implications for the future. It will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers and policy makers in regional studies, industrial policy, economic geography, innovation studies, operations management and engineering.
Download or read book Reshoring written by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA and published by AA Global Sourcing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshoring is essentially the opposite of offshoring, it is a term used to describe the act of bringing back offshored manufacturing to a country. In the beginning of 2011, for the most part, most people thought that this was just impossible, that there would be no reshoring to the U.S. or UK, that everything was going to China, manufacturing was leaving both countries and it will never come back and I think the striking thing is how much that's changed in the last three years. You went to China because it was just so cheap you couldn't help it; but if you've got the engineers and people in the U.S. or UK, and the customer base in the U.S. or UK, you'd like to be close to the customer. It gives you a shorter supply chain.
Download or read book Reshoring of Manufacturing Activities written by Niklas Nie and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshoring of production processes gained importance after the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in massive supply chain disruptions in global networks and increased discussion about regionalization of supply chains. This paper targets to identify reshoring drivers and limits, measure their importance for companies' reshoring decisions and their potential to support the development of regional supply chains. Further, it detects changes in importance over time, the underlying geographic movement, and the impacts of Covid-19 on the reshoring debate and companies' decisions. I will use a combination of valence analysis and an inductive category formation approach to achieve the research objective. The research material is news articles collected from the LexisNexis database. 3.877 articles are collected. The analysis resulted in 179 of the being content bearing in the context of reshoring motivators or limits. Combinations of cost and strategical considerations are the significant reshoring drivers, while cost considerations are also the considerable reshoring limits. The Covid-19 pandemic increased the importance of supply chain risk in the reshoring discussion. Companies' preference for short supply chains close to major markets and a change in cost differentials are likely to result in reshoring of production processes and the development of more localized supply chains. The findings offer a broad range of reshoring drivers and limits and their importance, developments over time, and differences between regions that are not covered by the literature in such depth. Further, the paper covers the influences of the actual Covid-19 pandemic on the reshoring decisions of companies.
Download or read book 42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China 2nd Edition written by Rosemary Coates and published by Happy About. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing business in China is tougher than you think. Not only is the culture vastly different, but China's experience in manufacturing is still developing. It will be a few years before the majority of manufacturers are up to world standards. In the meantime, quality, contract laws, schedules and logistics must be closely monitored. As a result, the things Westerners must do to be successful are far different from dealing with American or European manufacturers. The best way to quickly come up to speed on these differences and how to handle them is to learn from the experience of others. Through over 20 extraordinary executive interviews, Rosemary Coates captured the essence of sourcing and manufacturing in China. '42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China (2nd Edition)' is a pragmatic approach that every businessperson headed to China must read. For business people who are experienced in doing business in China, or for first-time visitors, this book will provide valuable insights from real executives and experts. These executives offer their personal experiences and recommendations about sourcing and manufacturing in China. Going beyond simple cultural do's and don'ts, you will discover: how business is really done how you can make things happen in China the mistake westerners often make, and how to avoid them what made these executives successful Based on her 25 years of supply chain experience, much of it spent living and working across Asia, Rosemary Coates has become an expert on doing business in China. Her own personal experiences in China are interwoven into this book.
Download or read book Breaking up the Global Value Chain written by Torben Pedersen and published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent developments are challenging the traditional separation between advanced and emerging economies as host of knowledge and production-intensive activities, respectively. Authors assess whether the co-location of R&D and manufacturing is critical for development and innovation.
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Industry 4 0 written by Marco Bettiol and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the opportunities and challenges of managing knowledge in the new reality of Industry 4.0. Addressing paradigmatic changes in value creation due to the development of digital technologies applied to manufacturing (additive manufacturing, IoT, robotics, etc.), it includes theoretical and empirical contributions on how Industry 4.0 technologies allow firms to create and exploit knowledge. The carefully selected expert contributions highlight the potential of these technologies in acquiring knowledge from a larger number of sources and examine approaches to innovation, organization of activities, and stakeholder development in the context of this next industrial revolution.
Download or read book Industrial Policy for the Manufacturing Revolution written by Patrizio Bianchi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical reflection on the meaning and expected impact of the fourth industrial revolution, and its implications for industrial policy. Industrial revolutions are considered not only in terms of technological progress, but also in the context of the changing relationship between market and production dynamics, and the social and political conditions enabling the development of new technologies. Industrial Policy for the Manufacturing Revolution aims to increase our capacity to anticipate and adapt to the forthcoming structural changes. A concrete illustration of this industrial policy is provided through an experience of its implementation at regional level.
Download or read book Managing Supply Chain Risk written by ManMohan S. Sodhi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Supply Chain Risk Management is an issue that many companies face and yet few companies know how to deal with it in a systematic and pragmatic manner. While avoiding and reducing supply chain risks are certainly preferable, developing ways to restore and stabilize supply chain operations rapidly after a major disruption is critical for managing global supply chains. Sodhi and Tang present important concepts, frameworks, strategies, and analyses that are essential for managing supply chain risks. Not only does this book suggest some practical ways to work with different partners to manage the risks that are present in a global supply chain, it creates a framework that would enable practitioners to engage researchers to work on this important area.” —Thomas A. Debrowski, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Mattel, Inc. “When a firm outsources its operations to external suppliers, the firm is vulnerable to major and rare disruptions that can occur at any link in the global supply chain. Because these disruptions rarely occur, few firms take commensurable actions to identify, assess, mitigate and respond to various types of supply chain risks. By introducing frameworks and concepts along with several case studies and a review of academic literature, Sodhi and Tang treat this important subject with practical relevance and academic rigor. This book will bring practitioners and researchers to develop effective and efficient ways to manage supply chain risks.” —Marshall L. Fisher, UPS Professor, Professor of Operations and Information Management and Co-Director of Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania “This book ties observations in practice to methodologies and research. The rich case examples motivated the approaches and methodologies used to mitigate risks, and in the course of doing so, Sodhi and Tang provided insights on existing and new research opportunities. As a result, this book is highly relevant to both practitioners and academics. Also, the book is also written with management lessons on how risks can be mitigated, and how risks can be contained once disruptions have occurred. As such, it is also a book for management to gain insights and to develop management skills.” —Hau L. Lee, Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology and Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University “As companies have extended their supply chains globally and as the face increasing resource issues, they face a number of new risk challenges. While there are various case studies written about supply chain risks, this book gives a comprehensive treatment of the subject with clarity. The concepts and frameworks developed by Sodhi and Tang in this book would create awareness of this important and yet not well understood subject, and strategies described in this book would stimulate practitioners to develop a holistic approach for identifying, assessing, mitigating, and responding to different types of supply chain risks.” —Nick Wildgoose, Global Supply Chain Proposition Manager, Zurich Insurance
Download or read book Manufacturing Matters written by Stephen S. Cohen and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1987-06-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What it Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully written by Willy C. Shih and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boomerang Economy written by David Merlin-Jones and published by Study of Civil Society. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses why many firms, that previously offshored manufacturing from the UK to other countries, are returning production to the UK, and how the British government can keep domestic manufacturing competitive.
Download or read book Reshore Production Now written by William A. Levinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place. The vital takeaway is: If the job can be made sufficiently productive, the per-unit labor cost ceases to be relevant which means a business can pay high wages, realize high profits, and deliver low prices simultaneously. The contest is then not between high wages and cheap labor, but between efficiency and inefficiency and, when automation is involved, machine against machine. Readers will be able to put these principles to work very quickly to achieve tangible results. The relatively low Federal minimum wage has meanwhile become a major issue, but inflation skyrocketed in the second quarter of 2022 when higher wages, and higher demand for goods and services, were not matched with higher productivity. The book addresses the relationship between the money supply and the velocity of money to prices, wages, and productivity. A manufacturing resurgence in the United States will not only increase our standard of living enormously but generate taxable economic activity that will help pay down rather than increase the Federal debt. Higher productivity also delivers a greater supply of goods to accompany higher wages, and thus works against inflation. This can prevent looming recessions and disruptions.
Download or read book Rebuild Manufacturing written by Michele M. Nash-hoff and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuild Manufacturing - the Key to American Prosperity is a non-fiction book that describes the current state of American manufacturing, discusses what are the main threats to rebuilding American manufacturing and recommends what strategies and actions should be implemented to rebuild American manufacturing. The author analyzes how trade agreements have affected American manufacturing, what role "reshoring" plays in rebuilding American manufacturing, and what is currently being done to rebuild American manufacturing. The book shows how American innovation and advanced manufacturing contribute to rebuilding American manufacturing and how we can solve the skills gap and attract the next generation of manufacturing workers. It provides case stories of how some American manufacturers are succeeding against global competition by developing innovative products and becoming lean companies. It concludes with specific recommendations of strategies, policies, and actions that can be taken by government, industry, manufacturing associations, and companies towards rebuilding the manufacturing industry in America. Readers will have a better understanding of the importance of manufacturing to the U. S. economy and will be motivated to do what they can to participate in rebuilding manufacturing in America.
