[vbaron]

I am neck deep in the middle of an outsourcing. We had been manufacturing electronics within the building, but now the powers that be have decided to outsource the work. Some to Electronic Manufacturing houses in the US and China - and also to Reynosa, Mexico, which is located on the US/Mexico border and is the area of much of the drug related violence going on in Mexico.

Between the swine flu and the the gun battles I brought up the question of what happens to our production (and the company's product) if they close the border. No answer yet.

Between the delays of getting product from China, inept project planning, and pie-in-the-sky saving estimates, this will cost us big time. But of course upper management and the bean counters will never admit that otherwise heads would roll. It will be someone else's fault...