贸易战的不确定性和COVID-19大流行带来的对可持续性和复原力的日益担忧，促使企业寻找降低风险和提高灵活性的方法
使用总拥有成本估算器(TCO)在与海外竞争对手的销售中做出强有力的证明!60%的公司根据基本指标做出采购决定，如工资率、工厂出厂价或落地成本，通常导致实际离岸成本少报15 - 30%
Our government could do a lot more to level the playing field for manufacturing. While the Reshoring Initiative does not support individual candidates, we do recommend policies that will bring manufacturing back from offshore, and we try to document candidate positions on these issues.
My first column talked about why manufacturing matters most for our country. This month, I want to discuss how chasing cheap prices is not only hollowing out domestic manufacturing but, in many cases, it’s making the companies that offshore less profitable. For decades, consultants and MBAs have told companies to focus on their core competencies—mostly R&D, finance and marketing—and outsource manufacturing offshore. Now, companies are discovering that strategy was often wrong.