As if U.S. manufacturers didn’t have enough stressors—tariffs and ensuing trade and supply chain turmoil, the pressure placed on them by digital transformation, cybersecurity concerns, labor difficulties—they’re trying to navigate all this during the push to reshore their operations.
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Reshoring: That is one of the purposes of the tariffs stated by Donald Trump, and during this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast, Plant Services chief editor Thomas Wilk enlisted Rosemary Coates for a discussion on how reshoring efforts in the U.S. are going since Trump took over again in January.
Coates is the executive director of the Reshoring Institute and has experience in global supply chain management consulting at Blue Silk Consulting. She has more than 30 years of experience in supply chain, reshoring and nearshoring, and is the author of several books.
Below is an edited excerpt from the podcast: