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Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico 'Unprecedented'

April 14, 2016

Mexico manufacturing has come a long way from the early days of simple product assembly in bare bones "maquiladoras" just over the U.S. border.

Walmart Teams With Group Dedicated to Promoting Reshoring of U.S. Manufacturers

August 25, 2015

Reshoring Initiative

The Reshoring Initiative recently announced a program in partnership with Walmart to help companies manufacture more consumer products in the United States.

Offshoring Has Lost Its Luster

July 31, 2015

Industry Week

Reshoring is delivering wide-ranging benefits for an increasing number of U.S. manufacturers, who see it as a way to maintain (or regain) global competitiveness. According to the Reshoring Initiative, in 2003 about 140,000 jobs were lost to offshoring. In 2014, for the first time in two decades, the U.S. realized a net gain of 10,000 reshored jobs.

Fueled by Cheap Natural Gas, Reshoring Predicted to Continue, But Pace Is Expected to Slow

January 27, 2015

Industry Today

Manufacturers typically evaluate seven critical areas when it comes to operational decision making: transportation and energy costs; market demand for their products; rising labor costs in China and other developing nations; access to talent, tax and regulatory policies; availability of capital; and currency trends.

Clothes Manufacturing Returns to U.S., But Industry Model Is Quite Different This Time

January 21, 2015

Apparel

A push to reshore apparel manufacturing and technical skills is steadily taking hold in the United States. Industry organizations, as well as academe and suppliers, are identifying areas for job creation, inventing new ways to think about apparel production and building incubators that nurture a budding apparel workforce via expert tutelage and business advice.

Study Finds Reversal of Outsourcing Initiatives Gains Momentum

December 8, 2014

University of Tennessee

Relocation of manufacturing and product sourcing to emerging economies is no longer the gold standard for global businesses, according to a study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's, Global Supply Chain Institute.

Large Manufacturers Expect U.S. Share of Production to Rise, to See More Jobs Created, Survey Says

October 27, 2014

Boston Consulting Group

U.S.-based executives at large companies remain bullish on American manufacturing, and their actions are starting to show it, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Dramatic Shifts in Manufacturing Costs Driving Companies to Change Global Production Strategies, Report Finds

August 21, 2014

The Boston Consulting Company

Major shifts in cost competitiveness around the world over the past decade are starting to spur a number of companies to change their global sourcing and manufacturing investment strategies, according to The Boston Consulting Group's report, The Shifting Economics of Global Manufacturing: How Cost Competitiveness Is Changing Worldwide.

U.S. Likely to See More 'Rightshoring' of Manufacturing

April 28, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

A conversation with Ron Tarter, senior vice president, Eastern Operations, for Flextronics.

Is Reshoring the Next Big Thing for Electronics Industry?

December 17, 2013

Manufacturing.net

Over the past few decades, the electronics components industry has seen countless companies pursue production overseas in an effort to reduce costs. OEMs have gone abroad to find the best value-added locations for building boards via offshoring: mainland China, Southeast Asia, and more recently Eastern Europe. However, this trend is shifting.