Six months after first discussing the possibility of a U.S. manufacturing renaissance, Talking Supply Chain host Brian Straight welcomes Brian Higgins, U.S. sector leader for industrial manufacturing at KPMG, back to the Talking Supply Chain podcast to assess what has changed.
While investment in domestic manufacturing continues to grow, Higgins argues that the real challenge has shifted from announcing projects to executing them. The conversation explores how tariffs, geopolitical instability, labor shortages, AI adoption and supply chain resilience are reshaping manufacturing strategy, while emphasizing that success will depend less on predicting disruption and more on building organizations capable of sensing and responding faster than competitors.
