Columns: Sourcing strategies

Customers will at times ask why manufacturing facilities are shut down. Let’s face it: We live in an “I want the product, and I want it NOW world,” and no one wants to hear about a shutdown.

Many automotive OEMS and others have committed to dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the supply chain.

Besides the crises of an economic shutdown that is being both applauded and derided, depending on who is talking, and which will pass, what things have profound influence on your company’s manufact