When Product Engineering Doesn’t Fulfill Its Two Primary Roles and Instead Steps into Re-Sourcing, They Become a Significant Obstacle to Re-Sourcing of Manufacturing Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner |...
When the Company’s Product Engineering Function Resists Near-Shoring to Protect Its Current Way of Doing Business Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 10 min read The case for near-shoring has gained...
A Resilient Supply Chain Is Defined by Its Ability to Either Mitigate or Quickly Recover from Disruptions Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 8 min read In the last 3 years,...
The Recent Melt Down of Southwest Airlines Is a Case Study of Over-Optimization of a System in Which Cost Has Been Driven Down and There Are No Redundancies or Buffers...
Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an article we Published in May 2020. The relevancy of these issues continues to increase and is becoming more and more urgent as...
Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an article we ran in January 2021. Much of this story is even more relevant today. If anything, these issues have continued to...
Major Shifts Have Occurred Over the Last Several Years with Sourcing from China Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an article we ran in March 2020. Much of this story...
TRADE DEFICITS, VAST DISTANCES BETWEEN COUNTRIES, AND CONTINUING SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTIONS--RECIPE FOR DISASTER? Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an article we ran in Jan 2019. Much of this...
the coronavirus has wreaked havoc with supply chains from china By Jeffrey Cartwright, Managing Partner | 6 min readHeadlines have been full for the last year of the disruptions in supply...
