Seeking a Less Crowded Field, MBAs Find Success in Manufacturing
If newly-minted MBAs want a good shot at quick employment and salary jumps, they may want to turn their aspirations toward factory floors and away from trading floors. A survey of more than 3,000 graduate business students around the world, released Wednesday by the Graduate Management Admission Council, shows that grads seeking jobs in the […]
How An Old Analysis Technique Could Strengthen The U.S. Manufacturing Revival
U.S. manufacturing is at a major turning point. The quality and cost battles we waged to counter 1980s “Japan Inc.” are mostly behind us. The China offshoring paradigm is “equalizing” itself out: they are finding that success has its own inevitable costs. To continue readying this article, please click here. Tags:Domestic Manufacturing, Offshoring
The economic case for reshoring
If you ever wondered about a manufacturing model that works, look no further. The following article about the economic case of reshoring explains the Sonic Manufacturing model perfectly. Tags: Manufacturing, Reshoring
The Wearables Window
Finding the right partner with the right offering is vital to a company’s success. This is a an insightful synopsis on what we see in our business every day. Executives in the EMS industry today are finding their roles changing from a pure sales person or a marketing person to more of a consultant to […]
RoHS 2 Creeps Up on the Industry
Gary Nevison and the folks in the element14 community are doing their part to educate the electronics community about the new requirements of RoHS 2, an update to the European Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS), which took effect January 2.
The Case for Backshoring
For years, the NCR Corporation simply followed the pack. Like many other large U.S. manufacturing companies, in the past couple of decades the maker of automated teller machines (ATMs) relied heavily on offshoring and outsourcing to trim factory costs. By making much of its equipment in cheaper offshore locations in the Asia/Pacific region, and by […]
Procurement Analytics Enabling Journey to Value
Procurement Analytics Enabling Journey to Value Making Procurement Relevant In this report, the Innovative Data Leveraging (IDL) process was described in different contexts, but the common thread in each case was that it provided a data-driven approach to driving change. Of course, leveraging analytics is difficult without some prior investment in strategic procurement systems. However, […]