August 30, 2011 7:27 pm
A New York Times article (‘Does America need manufacturing”, August 24, 2011) described the supply chain impact of federal govt investment in battery manufacturing – the potential impact on scientific research, mining, building contractors, designers, engineers and shop floor employees. The article estimates that manufacturing employs 65 5 of US scientits and engineers. Should the federal government consider its role as the nurturer of the supply chain and make investments that are an externality to the supply chain ? Would such govt investments be considered as competitive responses, since other govts such as the Korean or Japanese govt do so regularly ? Should we include the “jobs not created” in the calculation of the benefit of such Federal investments ?
Posted by aviyer2010
Categories: Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues
Tags: battery, externality, Global, Infrastructure, manufacturing, Outsourcing, Supply Chain, Trends
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