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![]() ![]() For all too many, she says, finding U.S.-made component parts has emerged as a vexing problem. sourcing push, says the retailer and its existing suppliers have 150 active reshoring projects in various stages of development. Trying to rebuild that manufacturing capability, while making products that meet Walmart’s standards, can require companies to “start from scratch,” Kelley says.Ĭindi Marsiglio, the Walmart vice president overseeing the U.S. The Foothill Ranch, California-based company began selling products made in Asia to Walmart in the 1990s and is now supplying it with some U.S.-made products. Kim Kelley, the CEO of Hampton Products International, a privately held maker of locks, lighting and other household hardware. “A lot of the tribal knowledge and skill sets are gone because the humans who used to do that work have either retired or died,” says H. ![]() manufacturing.Ĭompanies that make the leap have to grapple with a host of challenges, including a shallow pool of component suppliers, an inexperienced workforce, and other shortcomings that developed during the country’s long industrial decline. ![]() REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/Filesīut suppliers trying to reshore production as part of the initiative by the world’s largest retailer are running into practical problems as they try to restart long-idled corners of U.S. A man stands on a skateboard outside a Wal-Mart store in Williston, North Dakota March 13, 2013. ![]()
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