Over the years I've often told the story of American Apparel. A company that manufactures trendy but still basic clothing - think lots of plain t-…

Thanks to Joel Lown from the U of Tennessee for this article from Knoxvillebiz.com about a local company called Bailey Hydropower that outsourced manu…

There is a big Walmart distribution center not far from where I live in rural Illinois. You can see it here. You can also see that all around it are…

By John Henry This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 2012.…

Over the past few months we've told you many stories of companies returning to North America as they realize that the reality of offshore manufact…

It's been almost exactly five years since Bill and I took the Shingo Prize to task (to put it gently) for some rather bizarre selections of suppos…

Just to make sure we don't get lulled into a false state of bucolic complacency with so many companies "re-shoring" back to America, the…

Ever since I started doing the One Day Assessments about a year ago I have been getting hit with people asking how I can possibly evaluate so many asp…