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# Onshoring as Competitive Advantage
- URL: https://www.kevinmeyer.com/onshoring_as_co/
- Published: 2007-04-21T11:41:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-10T23:53:25.000Z
- Author: Kevin Meyer
- Tags: Outsourcing Lemmings, #Migrated-1752356847400, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-12 14:48

Last month we told you about the Manufacturing Business Conference to be held at the Kellogg School of Management this coming May. Yours truly will be moderating a panel discussion titled Onshoring: Domestic Manufacturing as a Competitive Advantage. Ironically it is scheduled right before a panel discussion on the Challenges of Outsourcing Manufacturing to China, so I guess my job is to make the following discussion a mute point or at least a non sequitur.

The members of my panel have been set, and I'm happy to announce they include several people and companies we've lauded on this blog.

- *Michelle Kumbier*, Director, Harley-Davidson Motor Company ([our story](https://www.kevinmeyer.com/what%5Fharleydavi/))
- *Gregory Owens*, CEO, Sherrill Manufacturing ([our story](https://www.kevinmeyer.com/another%5Famazing/))
- *Anthony Sapienza*, President, Joseph Abboud Manufacturing Corp ([our story](https://www.kevinmeyer.com/more%5Fon%5Fjoseph%5F/))
- *Conrad Winkler*, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

It will be a real honor to meet these people in person, and hopefully as a group tell some other people how manufacturing can be globally competitive from U.S.-based factories. The Conference itself is sponsored by several companies we've mentioned, such as Danaher, Harley-Davidson, Eaton, ITW, Emerson, and John Deere.