Boston Consulting Group

In today’s fast-changing retail-industry environment, warehouse automation can be a surprisingly powerful tool for meeting new supply-chain challenges head on and using the supply chain to create competitive advantage.

This study by the Boston Consulting Group supports a previous report on why large US manufacturers are reshoring production back to the US from these previous low cost manufacturers.

The decision of whether or not to locate manufacturing operations in the U.S. is still going to be unique to each business. However, there are several factors you should be aware of that might encourage you to join the on-shoring movement.

As explained in a previous Boston Consulting Group report, when the many risks and hidden costs of managing extended global supply chains are taken into account, it will be just as economical to manufacture many products in the U.S. if those goods are sold in the U.S.