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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Overall, from 2001 to 2008 average Asian wages increased 7.1-7.8%, Obsolete and excess inventory carriage are more preventable. Motivations and Stats on the State of Reshoring in 2015.

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Outsourcing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Lessons from Nortel Networks

NC State SCRC

Nortel was on the first to create an outsource system house in Boston which was moved to Penang. ” The UGLY – “Nortel went to Chapter 11 in 2008. When they declared chapter 11 – they left Flex with $400M of inventory. That was surely developed on the foot of getting stuck with Nortel’s inventory!

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

from the year before, and about $250 billion more than companies spent on logistics in 2008. Whether the cause is e-commerce growth, the tight labor market, or changing distribution models, inventories and carrying costs are rising. Previously, taking inventory in that facility took two weeks; using drones, that shrunk to two hours.