NEARSOURCING

CONNECT’s Nearsourcing Roundtable program focuses on developing and expanding the local Production Clusters in San Diego. The purpose of the program is to educate our region’s entrepreneurs and emerging businesses on the benefits of contracting with local manufacturers, to match San Diego companies in need of outsourcing with San Diego outsourcing companies and to engage San Diego’s nearsourcing community. In addition to the Roundtables, there will also be regularly-scheduled educational workshops teaching our entrepreneurial community about the benefits of nearsourcing.

SDSI & CONNECT support Connectory.com® which that provides detailed capabilities profiles of US industrial and technology companies across all industries at every level of the supply chain. The goal is to link United States businesses to each other and to provide information about the industrial and technology base of the economy. It also includes profiles of other critical assets in addition to companies including federal labs, university and private research centers.

The Connectory® Network is a nationwide, Web-Based Buyer-Supplier Network that provides:

• A unique way to connect with companies and other assets by understanding their capabilities
• Powerful means for government, large company, and institutional buyers to identify sources of products, services, technologies, capabilities, and capacities
• Detailed capabilities and capacities for companies at every level of the supply chain
• Focus on manufacturing/technology companies and their supplier chain including wholesalers/logistics, technical services, construction, agribusiness, and mining
• Showcase for tens of thousands of US companies at NO COST to them
• Geocoding and interactive mapping feature for locating assets/resources
• Internet speed/powerful search engine combined with in-depth company database
• Commitment to usability, coverage, quality, and continual updating distinguishes it from any other available database
• IT platform on which Communities of Interest (COI) can segment the Connectory database within Portals, specified by geography, industry, or other COI criteria