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02/04/2025

My column today in Supply Chain Management Review

The longer-term economic outlook is bleak for all of the countries involved…

11/30/2024

Often overlooked, the Export-Import Bank of the United States plays a key…

11/22/2024

New research from Bain & Company shows that the vast majority of company executives have plans to shift supply chains closer to home.

09/03/2024

Listen to my guest Videocast on electronics manufacturing

EMSNOW speaks with Rosemary Coates, Founder and Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute for an update from the front lines of this growing trend. Rosem...

08/07/2024

Article about our July trip to Lanzhou, China on a Trade Mission

In early July, Los Gatans Rosemary Coates and John Eichinger found themselves on a plane headed to the 30th Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair. This trip was organized by the Silicon Valley Division of the China-US Business Summit and led by Diana WeiPing Ding, its president. Former IBM and Intel exe...

07/26/2024

This is my column today in Supply Chain Management Review - Lanzhou, China

While attitudes toward Americans have changed in the big cities along…

05/29/2024

My column today in Supply Chain Management Review Magazine

Sustainability should be on every supply chain professional’s agenda and…

05/10/2024

What a nice article that the editor of Supply Chain Management Review wrote about me! ❤❤

The reshoring trend is rapidly accelerating, but it is not new. Reshoring…

04/15/2024

Listen to my videocast on water at the US/Mexico border with Water Commissioner, Dr. Maria-Elena Giner.

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Listen as Dr.Maria Elena Giner, Commissioner of the US International Boundary…

02/26/2024

Read my article in Supply Chain Management Review

Politics seems to be on everyone’s mind in this election year and the effects on supply chains are becoming evident in every aspect of our work.

01/23/2024

Listen as Rosemary Coates and Jill Donoghue, Vice President at Bumble Bee Foods discuss a global supply chain that moves around the world and a customer base...