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The new economics of offshoring
Brian Fuller
3/7/2013 3:30 PM EST
We're entering a very gray area as the electronics supply chain evolves, and that's a good thing.
For years, the conversation was bipolar: Either offshoring is good, or offshoring is bad.
But today, it's not quite so simple, and John Knight has a front-row seat to watch and exploit the changing dynamics.
Click to read the rest of this story on EBN.
For years, the conversation was bipolar: Either offshoring is good, or offshoring is bad.
But today, it's not quite so simple, and John Knight has a front-row seat to watch and exploit the changing dynamics.
Click to read the rest of this story on EBN.
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EREBUS
3/9/2013 4:16 PM EST
Actually, it has never been simple. It is always driven by economic necessity. A world wide business is constantly looking at material supply, labor costs, shipping costs, advertising costs and support costs.
Each area is open for the possibilities of where the the business might derive value from moving aspects of the production costs to other locations.
So currently, it looks like bringing some jobs back to the US might be beneficial to certain businesses. We will see if that is really true when we see employment numbers improve.
Just a thought,
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any1
3/11/2013 8:57 AM EDT
But, as we have seen in this economy, just because certain job functions are now back in the US does not necessarily mean more jobs. Companies have figureed out how to do more with less people.
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Bert22306
3/9/2013 4:37 PM EST
Yeah, my reaction was very much like Erebus'. What your interviewee described is the way it's always been. The only thing that's changed over the years have been the over-simplistic sound bites that the average joe is fed.
The search for the right balance of offshoring, or for that matter any type of outsourcing, and doing things in-house is a dynamic system. Just because one company today might have rethought some of its outsourcing decisions of last year, should not be taken as a whole new national trend.
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