Manufacturing business and technology information and resources
for small and mid-market companies participating in the
manufacturing value chain.
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Society for Georgia Manufacturers
The Society focuses on the Best Practices of
manufacturing and how to best utilize information and technology to
prduce world-class processes.
Manufacturing Business educational videos
from the 2009 Business, Braves and Bottom Line™ seminar
series
Topics include: CEO Tools for Every Manufacturer's
Success - Kraig Kramers; Being a Crisis Leader during the Economic
Downturn - Bruce Blythe; How Carbon Emissions Cap and Trade Will
Affect Your Business - Eric Taub.
One Georgia Authority: Entrepreneur/Small Business Outreach
Services
The goal of the OneGeorgia Authority is to offer financial
partnerships with rural communities to create strong economies in
all business sectors, allowing new and existing industries, both
large and small, to flourish. Contact Jack Burnett at TwinEngines
to find out more about the program.
Georgia
Retraining Tax Credit Guide
information for employers that are interested in earning state
income tax credit for eligible types of employee retraining
programs.
How to
Build a Business Case For SharePoint
Building a business case for SharePoint poses specific challenges
because much of its ROI is intangible: SharePoint deployments can
lead to process improvements, but it's not always easy to quantify
the dollar value of those process
improvements.
How the Small Get Mighty: Manufacturing ERP Is Essential
but Not Just Any ERP Will Do
As many small and mid-market manufacturers are realizing, ERP is
essential, although not just any ERP system will work. With the
right ERP system in place, small and mid-market manufacturers can
grow and scale their operations. Read this informative whitepaper
on the ERP market for small and mid-market manufacturers, and learn
about the factors that are important when choosing an ERP
system.
Alabama Tax
Incentives for Industry
The Alabama Department of Revenue administers several tax
incentives available for existing industries, expanding industries,
and new industries locating in Alabama.
Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center
(SETAAC)
SETAAC helps manufacturers develop and implement turn-around
strategies to compete better with imports, serving the eight-state
region of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. You can use the SETAAC
program to pay for half of your cost of business and engineering
consulting services (up to $75,000 to you for $150,000 of total
consulting costs).
Thought Leader -- Reducing the Supply Chain
Footprint
HP's Christian Verstraete brings a systems engineer's eye for the
big picture to managing the supply chain's "ecosystem."
Defense Manufacturing: A Crisis in the
Making
Manufacturing accounts for 12 percent of the nation's Gross
Domestic Product and 10 percent of employment. When in connection
to consumption of materials and inputs from other sectors, it
accounts for 30 percent of GDP. What is needed is a national
manufacturing strategy. The Defense Department should take into
account the manufacturing industrial base in its budgeting process,
and acknowledge that increased federal investments must be made in
advanced manufacturing technology. The manufacturing squeeze is
coming.
Small Business Gets Tech
Savvy
Today's small business is more sophisticated when it comes to
investment in new technology.