by closeshoring | Jul 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Leadership and team members at any company, regardless of size, know that ongoing pandemic-related supply chain imbalances are costly. Sales are up at many companies, but profit is down, primarily because higher transportation costs and delays are eating into...
by closeshoring | Jul 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Volvo plans to modify its Ridgeville, South Carolina factory, which is located less than 40 miles from Charleston, to become a dedicated EV factory. Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said that the factory will be the first Volvo factory in the world making only electric...
by closeshoring | Jul 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
More than 300 million square feet of new warehouse and fulfillment space is needed in the US to support e-commerce. Amazon is addressing this issue with huge (3 million+ square feet) robotic fulfilment centers. These multi-level centers where humans and robots work...
by closeshoring | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Global supply chains that were broken by the pandemic are still in chaos. These problems will be with us for a while, because of market imbalances and because the just-in-time global outsourcing model no longer works for most companies and their customers. Ants use a...
by closeshoring | Jun 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Morgan Stanley recently released a note on Tesla’s future capacity and growth. The note discussed key drivers that would further Tesla’s dominance in terms of model/segment and factory footprint. “Cars don’t ship like iPhones, and there are benefits in high...
by closeshoring | Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
A new report totaling several hundred pages, that supports localization and reshoring was released today, recommending immediate and far-reaching action on supply chains involving areas critical to the U.S. economy: large capacity lithium batteries, rare earth...
