Is ‘homeshoring’ really happening? EEF has suggested that there is a trickle back of companies who have become disenchanted with off shored operations in addition to a broader trend for ‘in-sourcing’. Alistair Sorbie, CEO of enterprise applications company IFS responds to EEF’s findings with some thoughts on the role of technology in supporting the return of manufacturing to the UK.
The West’s traditional manufacturing base has been in gradual decline for decades, driven even further in the past five to 10 years by the industry’s rapid expansion in the East. A label reading ‘Made in the UK’ may be hard to come by now, but all of this is set for radical change. Collaboration: the…
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