A recent BusinessWeek article highlights the more cautious approach many manufacturers are taking with regards to China. The biggest single issue appears to be intellectual property theft, although product quality and other issues (cost of fuel, logistics of extending your supply chain halfway across...
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12-14-2008
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My blogs of July 5 and 6 were concerned with how the price of oil may be the tipping point for a turn from unchecked outsourcing. The NY Times ran an article today covering the same topic. Shipping costs start to crimp globalization: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/business/worldbusiness/03global.html...
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08-03-2008
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Filed under: security printing, security, Supply Chain, Outsourcing, petroleum, oil price, Peak Oil, globalization, localization, NY Times, manufacturing