Welcome to Market Flow--The Online Blog for Your Local Connection

By Ryan C Miller

Welcome to the first installment of the Your Local Connection Blog.  The idea behind this blog is to provide market insight into local-shoring activates (i.e. moving manufacturing closer to customer markets).  I should take this opportunity to make a few clarifications and develop a few definitions before I go any further.  I will often use terms like re-shoring, near-shoring or on-shoring.  I typically use re-shoring to refer to moving a manufacturing operation from overseas to the United States.  Near-shoring, on-shoring and local-shoring talk more about moving a manufacturing operation closer to its market.  As an example, that may mean moving production from the US to China because the market for the product is in China.

On a recurring basis, I will select a relevant topic and provide insight and supporting documentation for current market trends.  Future topics may include: “why Mexico is a great alternative to Asia for US markets,” “recent shifts in US import vs export numbers,” or “the politics of transportation.”  I am also open to suggestions.  If you have an idea or topic you would like to discuss, please feel free to send me an email and provide feedback.  I would like this to be a dialogue and open discussion forum, so please feel welcome to provide comments.

The end goal for this blog is to provide information to improve operational efficiency and achieve greater cost savings.  I look forward to this opportunity to exchange information and dialogue about these very relevant topics to for the manufacturing world.

Email me at ryan.miller@yourlocalconnection.net