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Using Total Cost of Ownership for selling vs. imports

Harry Moser
June 7, 2017

Use the Total Cost of Ownership Estimator (TCO) to make a strong case when selling against offshore competitors! Sixty percent of companies make sourcing decisions based on rudimentary metrics, such as wage rate, ex-works price or landed cost, often resulting in a 15 to 30 percent understatement of actual offshoring costs.


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A Deeper Dive into Total Cost of Ownership: Part 2

Harry Moser
April 11, 2017

In my December column, I discussed how total cost of ownership (TCO) can reveal the hidden costs of offshoring and determine the real profit and loss impact of reshoring and offshoring.


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Border-Adjustment Tax and Manufacturing

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John Sprovieri
March 1, 2017

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to bolster U.S. manufacturing; slash the corporate tax rate; build a wall on our southern border to keep out illegal immigrants; and invest more than $1 trillion to upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure.


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A deeper dive into Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Part 1

Most companies make sourcing decisions based solely on price
Harry Moser
December 1, 2016

In our last column, we discussed how “total cost of ownership” (TCO) could reveal the hidden costs of offshoring and quantify the real profit and loss impact of reshoring or offshoring.


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Our 2016 Assembly Industry Naughty and Nice List

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John Sprovieri
December 1, 2016

Lumps of coal go to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for giving us a choice between Scylla and Charybdis. An extra lump goes to The Donald for running a campaign that set new lows in civil political discourse.


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Using TCO when buying or selling

Harry Moser
October 3, 2016

In our last column, we identified national policies that will help bring manufacturing back from offshore, thereby improving the country’s economy, employment and budget deficit.


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Ford Shifting all U.S. Small-Car Production to Mexico

September 18, 2016

DEARBORN, MI—Ford plans to eventually shift all North American small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico, CEO Mark Fields told investors last week, even though the company’s production investments in Mexico have become a lightning rod for controversy in the presidential election.


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US Manufacturers Have Repatriated 265,000 Jobs Since 2010

August 30, 2016

KILDEER, IL—From January 2010 until July 2016, approximately 265,000 jobs have come back to the United States from abroad, according to the latest estimates from the Reshoring Initiative.


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Manufacturing matters most

Harry Moser
April 7, 2016

It is too little and too late to keep writing “manufacturing matters.” Everything else in the economy is secondary to manufacturing, mining and farming. Only these activities build wealth.


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Politicians Lose Their Cool Over Carrier Corp.'s Offshoring Decision

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John Sprovieri
April 6, 2016

Manufacturing has again become part of the conversation on the presidential campaign trail, though not for the best of reasons.


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