Bringing jobs back to the USA : rebuilding America's manufacturing through reshoring / Tim Hutzel, Dave Lippert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutzel, Tim, author.

Lippert, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offshore outsourcing--United States--Case studies.

Offshore outsourcing.

Manufacturing industries--United States--Management--Case studies.

Manufacturing industries.

Economic development--United States--Case studies.

Economic development.

Labor--United States--Case studies.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A follow-up book to Hutzel's previous book, Keeping Your Business in the USA: Profit Globally While Operating Locally, this new book tells the stories of companies that sent their jobs outside of the USA and the negative impacts this had on the quality of their products and services, employees, supply chain providers, and the overall American way of life. The book reveals the motivation these companies had to off-shore their jobs and the errors of omission they made by not understanding the true cost of off-shoring. -- Provided by publisher.

This book tells the stories of several companies that did sent their jobs outside the United States and the negative impact that had on: the quality of their products and services; customer reactions and attitudes; company employees; supply chain providers of materials and services; small mom and pop shops and restaurants; city, state, and federal governments; national security; and the American way of life. The book will reveal the motivation these companies had to off-shore their jobs, sending them outside the USA, and the errors of omission they made by not understanding the True Cost of Off-Shoring. The book will then examine several companies that Re-Shored their jobs, bringing them back to the USA, their motivation for doing so, and how they did it-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Why Companies Offshore; Chapter 2: Why Hershey Made the Decision to Offshore; Chapter 3: Five Other Companies That Also Offshored American Jobs; Chapter 4: Results of Offshoring; Chapter 5: Five Companies That Brought American Jobs Back Home; Chapter 6: Motivation to Reshore; Chapter 7: A 360° Approach to Making a Reshoring Decision; Chapter 8: Phase II: Select and Analyze the New Onshore Manufacturing Source; Chapter 9: Phase III: Prepare for Reshoring

Chapter 10: Reshoring Will Not Be a "Piece of Cake"-Many Issues to Confront and OvercomeChapter 11: Why It Is Important to Bring American Jobs Back to the United States; About the Authors; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

A Productivity Press book.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

9781040084007

1040084001

9780429257193

0429257198

9781482282528

1482282526

OCLC:

880826866