Harry Moser is still at it. The founder of the Reshoring Initiative, whom MetalMiner has interviewed before, recently preached the valuable message of considering total cost of ownership (TCO) when making all kinds of ‘shoring’ decisions (off-, re-, near-) during a recent webinar sponsored by MFG.com. While much of the webinar felt more times than [...]
Borrowing the name of a regular feature on our sister publication Spend Matters, we give you a MetalMiner “Friday Rant. Source: gargles.net Ok, all votes are in for the best headline I’ve seen this week. And by “all votes, I mean only mine, because I feel as though nearly anyone and everyone (with any sense [...]
MetalMiner came across the Reshoring Initiative at a recent IMEC supply chain conference here in Chicago, and has separately touched on reshoring in recent articles. We got in touch with the initiative’s founder, Harry Moser, to clarify just what his firm does, why total cost of ownership (TCO) matters and why it’s important for US [...]
MetalMiner came across the Reshoring Initiative at a recent IMEC supply chain conference here in Chicago, and has separately touched on reshoring in recent articles. We got in touch with the initiative’s founder, Harry Moser, to clarify just what his firm does, why total cost of ownership (TCO) matters and why it’s important for US [...]
A bit of a lesson in supply chain management of sorts is under the microscope in the aluminum market these days. And it seems to center on the Motor City. The ‘supply chain’ issue the terribly long wait times for loading out the physical metal from Detroit-based LME warehouses, as reported by Reuters’ Andy Home. [...]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1oLz3wiQk [/youtube] Joe Coleman, commodity manager at Spain-based Acciona Wind Power, spoke with MetalMiner about what he’s seeing in the steel markets, and how to engage American suppliers in a relationship with Acciona’s wind turbine assembly plant in Iowa. (Video: Taras Berezowsky/MetalMiner) At first blush, attending a supply chain conference may not exactly scream “Metals! [...]
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With the automotive market receiving 24 percent of all steel shipments in 2010, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), good news in auto industry production and sales can generally be interpreted as good news for steel. Even better news for a sagging US economy is hearing that domestic car sales are improving, [...]
