Why it's Vital for Businesses in China to Act Now Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 5 min read With the US-China Trade War now in its fifth year and the global...
Many Small-to-Medium Size Companies with an Aversion to Paying a Sourcing Fee - Never Realize Tens to Hundreds of Thousands in Savings Potential Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner |...
Written By Andrew Barker, Shoreview Managing Partner | 5 min readThis year, the most talked about subject in the Mexican business community is the massive FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) coming into...
China Has Grown into the World’s Second Largest Economy by Becoming the Factory of the World Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 5 min read The economic miracles that China has...
Chinese Import Costs Have Risen Dramatically Due to Labor Increases and the Tariffs Imposed During the US - China Trade Dispute. Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 7 min...
When Failure to Nearshore Results in the Failure of the Business and Its Liquidation. Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 9 min read Products from China have increased in costs for many...
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...