Post-COVID, Can U.S. Manufacturing Soar Again?

Each month, Tony Uphoff, visionary CEO of Thomasnet.com, joins
Cloud Wars Live for a recurring segment. “Uphoff on Industry”
will explore the innovations, upheavals, and breakthroughs
reshaping the world of manufacturing and industrial markets. Join
Tony and me as we discuss disruptive new trends in the
digital-industrial world. These include how we design, source and
manufacture products. And also the new ways in which industrial
companies are getting up to speed on marketing, sales and
customer experience.


Episode 13


In this episode, Tony says Thomas made a full pivot for about 350
employees spread across two locations – one in New York City, and
one in Horsham, PA. He says the first step was how smoothly it
all went, and how prepared Thomas was to go remote.


Tony says he has so many suppliers that just bring tears to his
eyes. He says they have to shut down for the foreseeable future.
Although, he says he’s heard from hospitals, organizations, city
and state governments that found incremental suppliers. And he
says you can use it on ThomasNet.com – and he says Thomas did it
in 48 hours, not nine to 10 months.


He says Mark Andreesen of Andreesen Horowitz – who created the
modern web browser called Netscape – wrote a post recently that
says it’s time to build. He called out in a positive way that US
manufacturing has never had a higher output.


Tony says ThomasNet rolled out a new badging system, rolled out
version 5.0, rolled out business unit called Thomas Industrial
Data, rewired all our financial systems, rolled out a new order
entry system, and 450 seats of Salesforce – all in 30 days.


He says we are going to have a little turbulence here, but he
thinks we’re going to get through this, and for many companies,
they can come out of this stronger than before.


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