How a Buyer Used Onshoring to Cut Costs 26 Percent

The Buyer's Side with Fexingo: Procurement, Sourcing, and B2B Purchasing Decisions · Jul 18, 2026 · 4m · transcript

In this episode of The Buyer's Side, Lucas and Luna explore how one Midwest manufacturer slashed its landed costs by 26 percent by onshoring its supply chain from Southeast Asia. We walk through the decision process: when the buyer switched from a $0.89 Thai capacitor to a $1.21 component from a supplier in Ohio, everyone initially questioned the math. But the real savings came from the hidden cost layers — ocean freight, air-express premiums, buffer inventory, and the overhead of managing a 14-hour time-zone gap. The buyer, a procurement director at a medical-device company, used…