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How Inventory Control Saves Construction Teams Resources

Construction Business Owner

How Inventory Control Saves Construction Teams Resources. Practicing inventory control helps your construction team save time & money while keeping you organized. All sorts of businesses rely on inventory to provide goods and services to their customers, but when it comes to construction, supplies and materials are truly essential.

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Trucking Companies Cut Profit Forecasts

Construction Equipment

Trucking demand spiked earlier this year due to inventory stockpiling in the second quarter as West Coast ports caught up with backlogs of imports that accumulated during a labor dispute. The trucking industry is preparing for a downturn in demand, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Retail accounts for more than $2 trillion in total GDP impact with consumer spending accounting for more than two-thirds of the U.S. The Tarpon Point Resort at Marina Village is home to a number of upscale retail shops and restaurants. By the BF Staff From the March/April 2016 Issue. Credit: City of Cape Coral). percent.

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How Multifamily Builders Can Benefit From Single-Family Boom

Pro Builder

In its latest Apartment Analysis and Forecast, JBREC says the future looks bright for suburban apartments and gloomy for urban. Builders are especially busy with nearly all standing inventory sold, so new-home buyers must wait nine to 12 months before their homes are even constructed.

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Construction BIG DATA: Both grand and granular

GCP Applied Technologies

It’s called ‘construction forecasting’. Construction forecasting is not unlike predicting the stock market—anything under the sun can affect it. With the right know-how, the right applications and an analytical mind, a good forecaster can not only extrapolate the patterns, but explain them. Forecasters can also work backwards.

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Construction BIG DATA: Both grand and granular

GCP Applied Technologies

It’s called ‘construction forecasting’. Construction forecasting is not unlike predicting the stock market—anything under the sun can affect it. With the right know-how, the right applications and an analytical mind, a good forecaster can not only extrapolate the patterns, but explain them. Forecasters can also work backwards.

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Economic Growth Continues, Manufacturing Growth Expected In 2013

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Economic growth in the United States will continue in 2013, according to purchasing and supply management executives in the December 2012 Semiannual Economic Forecast. These projections are part of the forecast issued by the Business Survey Committee of the Institute for Supply Management ™ (ISM). percent reported in April 2012.