URL | http://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/quality-inside |
Source | Inside Quality Insider |
Date Published | 07/19/2010 |
Author Name | Jack Healy |
Mentions specific company case(s) of reshoring, kept from offshoring, or transplant | Yes |
Company/Division name | Caterpillar |
Type of work | Manufacturing |
Reshoring category: | Reshoring |
Industry(ies): | Machinery |
Product(s) reshored | excavators |
What non-domestic negative factors made offshoring less attractive? | Freight cost, Intellectual property risk, Political instability , Quality/rework/warranty, "complicated logistics" |