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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

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In addition to directly providing 29 million retail jobs it supports more than four million logistics jobs; four million management and administration jobs; two million healthcare and service jobs; almost two million finance, insurance and real estate jobs; and 800,000 technology jobs. supporting one out of every four jobs.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Two Train Cars Forward, Three Cargo Ships Back

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Logistics incorporates the complexity of integrating information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling and packaging. It is the largest business practice a company has to manage and to be deemed successful and efficient it should be done in a cost-effective, timely, safe and secure fashion. trillion in 2011, a 6.6

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Linking The Global Supply Chain

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A number of states are now in the matchmaking business, all trying to help companies solve their increasingly complex and demanding supply chain issues.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” Wilson predicts that these supply chain management improvements will continue even as higher volumes return to the market place. Plains U.S.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Inventory is exempt from property tax. Alabama Industrial Development Training (AIDT): State training program certified in compliance with ISO 9001:2000, the International Organization for Standardization Principle for Quality Management. It also provides certified manager training and supervisory and team leadership training.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ALABAMA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING (AIDT): State training program certified in compliance with ISO 9001:2000, the International Organization for Standardization Principle for Quality Management. It also provides certified manager training and supervisory and team leadership training. Supply chain management.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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CoFi is piloting a new modular construction financing program with Manufactured, an end-to-end inventory manufacturing & finance solution. Trust Neighborhoods | Kansas City, Missouri Trust Neighborhoods is a Kansas City-based nonprofit creating community-controlled real estate where gentrification threatens displacement.