Deminders of the things that make for loss-control success come from the most unexpected places. On March 8, the Wall Street Journal printed an article: U.S. shoe factory finds supplies are Achilles' heel. Here is the slightly edited, key quote: What killed his U.S. factory isn't just competition from Asia's cheap labof, he says. It is the lack of infrastructure needed to make a factory tick ...Finding technicians to fly in on short notice to fix shoe machines was a constant and growing challenge... because the number of U.S. companies that make and service machines has dwindled. The suppliers of shoelaces, leather and other basic materials insisted that he buy in batches far larger than made sense for a small-scale producer.
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