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China: Is the End Coming Soon?

Charlie Harte — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:08:43 +0000

Proficient Sourcing is interested in helping OEM’s reshore, especially from China. On 8/4 we wrote an article about Peter Zeihan’s emphatic comments that China was nearing an end as a manufacturing superpower. Several factors were cited, and now there’s more from this same source. And speaking of reshoring, here’s some good news from the Reshoring…

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China: Is the End Coming Soon?

Charlie Harte — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 03:07:55 +0000

China has been the major thorn in American manufacturing for some time. Now a well-known expert says this is coming to a dramatic end in the next 10 years. Proficient Sourcing has a network of domestic manufacturers eager for reshoring interest or just a desire for better suppliers. Maybe at last we have some…

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Need Improvements to Your Supply Chain – FAST?

Charlie Harte — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:00:22 +0000

We’re all about improving your supply chain. Whether reshoring something or any of a myriad of possibilities, if you want excellent candidates for your outsourced manufacturing, we can probably help. Key areas of success have been large metal parts, such as machine bases, fabricated and molded plastics, domesticating ferrous (and large!) castings, tanks, pressure vessels, and…

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Future of the Supply Chain. Good for the US?

Charlie Harte — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:41:02 +0000

Proficient Sourcing LLC exists to help OEM’s find excellent manufacturing suppliers. We found a forecast of what the future might hold that’s both chilling and encouraging. Check out this source and keep us in mind if it’s at all accurate. “[After WWII] the Americans had …become THE determining factor in issues European and Asian…industrial and…

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Good News for US Manufacturing! Can it be True?

Charlie Harte — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:37:35 +0000

Several recent forecasts have predicted difficult economic times in the years ahead. One primary reason given is the declining influence of the US Navy in promoting free oceanic trade. Without the Navy’s presence countries may become more parochial, and the major ones may try to exert greater control over what they view as their…

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Outsourcing Your Manufacturing: Pros and Cons

Charlie Harte — Fri, 19 May 2023 21:27:52 +0000

Proficient Sourcing LLC exists to help you find excellent suppliers so your outsourcing will be successful. There are many factors involved with outsourcing, and it’s always educational to check the internet to see the pros and cons. Fortunately, we found no new revelations. But depending on your business there are certainly many things to…

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Inclusive Economic Growth via Manufacturing?

Charlie Harte — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:04:04 +0000

A McKinsey & Company article of Jan 12, 2022 is labeled as part of the Davos Agenda. This alone gives us pause. Do you trust the Davos crowd for sound advice? Please let us know your view on this subject. In any case, among other things, this McKinsey author bemoans the decline of US…

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Supply Chain Under Strain

Charlie Harte — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:32:22 +0000

Proficient Sourcing LLC provides OEM’s access to a network of outstanding manufacturing suppliers. As almost all are midwestern, we offer an alternative to companies being subjected to supply chain difficulties with overseas suppliers. The January/February edition of Expansion Solutions magazine has an excellent summary article “A Supply Chain Under Strain”. The article points out several…

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China: Big Problems Lurk!

Charlie Harte — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:55:45 +0000

China has very big demographic problems. Is this situation meaningful for us folks interested in US manufacturing at present or soon? We shall see. All of a sudden, a large number of news sources are reporting a potential demographic crisis beginning in China. We wonder what this means for OEMs with Chinese manufacturing. The government…

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Manufacturing Outlook for 2023

Charlie Harte — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 23:56:12 +0000

Making sense of economic forecasts is risky business, but we looked at many claims of such expertise concerning manufacturing. This is a summary of one such source from Hitachi Solutions. Their report contained several factors widely reported in other places. As we all know the trifecta of problems, labor issues, supply chain and inflation…

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