Has US Manufacturing peaked? Has the country’s industrial base lost its sizzle? Are we consigned to following China’s lead? Maybe not, suggests Chris Scafario, president and CEO of Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center, but there’s a lot of work that needs to be done, starting with accelerating the adoption and deployment of AI and streamlining government contracts.
Another area bedeviling companies is the prevalence of supplier disruptions, which have gotten quite costly over the past 12 months, with nearly one-quarter of the companies survey reporting significant losses, and half reporting modest losses. Could AI be one of the solutions to all-too-common supply chain disruptions?
All this and more in this week’s Supply Chain Insights.
—Dave Blanchard
