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Supplier Evaluations? How About BUYER evaluations, too?

Charlie Harte — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:36:33 +0000

Supplier evaluation is a frequent LinkedIn group discussion. Since Proficient Sourcing’s business is to help identify appropriate and excellent manufacturing suppliers, these discussions are of particular interest. Our work typically involves generating candidates for new supplier situations. Evaluation criteria are focused on price and delivery, with excellent quality. The shops we deal with all…

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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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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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The 4 Day Work Week – A 2nd Take

Charlie Harte — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 23:10:44 +0000

We continue to hear news about the 4-Day workweek. Some European countries have implemented this, but it has yet to take hold in the US. Is this a good idea for us in manufacturing? Or in other types of work? And who would benefit from such a change? We have no particular view on…

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ESG: A Second Look

Charlie Harte — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:17:18 +0000

Manufacturers might be well advised to pay attention to the current movement using ESG standards (whose standards are these?) for funding decisions. This could affect your retirement system as well as access to funding for any number of things. For a second time we want to take a look at ESG standards for investments. …

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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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Pandemic Effects on the Economy

Charlie Harte — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 22:22:38 +0000

Recently we found “The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response”, a talk by Jeffrey Tucker from October 2022. Mr. Tucker is a writer of some note, but evidently a strong conservative. Whether or not his remarks are 100% accurate or not is beyond our ability to determine, but it makes a lot of sense. …

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The 4 Day Work Week

Charlie Harte — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:53:26 +0000

Recently we heard a radio report that the government was considering 4 Day work week legislation. No further details were reported, so we can only speculate that this is a move that might happen sometime in the future. To whom, how and when unreported. The US economy consists of a wide variety of types…

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Reshoring: 2022 News

Charlie Harte — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:41:02 +0000

Proficient Sourcing can help almost anyone considering reshoring manufacturing in 2022 and beyond. We can help by offering candidates for all manner of manufacturing with a network of companies, all of whom have a history of happy customers—without cost or obligation. Here are many of the capabilities we offer. A particularly good example would…

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