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Greater Lansing Business Locations: Connections & World-Tested Experience

Location, location, location. The advantages of having a business location in the Greater Lansing area set us apart from other business locations. Not every area is within a day’s drive of half the population of the U.S. and Canada—but that’s only one advantage. Other advantages of a business location in the Greater Lansing area are a superior transportation network, a skilled and plentiful workforce, logistics-friendly infrastructure and the expertise of Michigan State University’s internationally known supply chain management program—ranked #2 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for both its undergrad and graduate programs. 

Greater Lansing Supply Chain Management and Logistics Highlights

• IBM’s first global delivery center for application services is located at Michigan State University and is a resource that will create 1,500 jobs over the next five years

• 28.8% growth in this industry sector from 2001-2006

• Segment contributes $427 million to the local economy

• 168% employment growth from 2001-2006 in gazelle companies (companies that grew at least 20% during this period).

• 200 million consumers are within a day’s drive of our area—and easily connected by our extensive network of highways, rail and air.

Top Employers

Company	# Local Employees
Meijer	2125
United States Postal Service	900
Ryder Logistics & Transportation	956
United Parcel Service of America, Inc.	518
Capital Region International Airport	50
Canadian National	100
CSX	100
HSS Material Management Solutions	100

 

Top 5 sectors within this industry cluster

Sector	Adjusted Employment in Tri-County Region*
Other Warehousing and Storage	100
Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, One-Distance	108
Freight Transportation Arrangement	153
General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload	344
General Warehousing and Storage	1995

*Weighted to reflect the portion of this sector that’s dedicated to this industry cluster, not total number of employees.

Source: Regional Cluster Analysis Report of the Lansing Metropolitan Region; August, 2009 (Appendix J)

Skilled and cost-effective labor pool

The Greater Lansing area offers affordable wage rates and a plentiful labor supply at every level from entry-level warehouse staff to experienced managers.

Standard Occupational Classification Code	Occupation	Mean Hourly Wage in Lansing-East Lansing	Mean Hourly Wage in MI	Mean Hourly Wage in US
53-0000	Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$15.37	$15.82	$15.12

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

MSU: One of the country’s top supply chain management programs

Ranked #2 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for both its undergrad and graduate programs, MSU is an international leader in this field. The department has formed strong industry partnerships designed to generate supply chain data and disseminate it to the marketplace.

• The Center for On Demand Supply Chain Research (a partnership with IBM)—This laboratory is used by MSU graduate students and faculty to study, simulate, and test the key relationships in an end-to-end supply chain. Work in this lab is expected to help both IBM, which helped to create the laboratory, and other companies build supply chains that can sense and quickly respond to changing customer demands and market conditions.

• Food SCENE Dialogues—Food Supply Chain Enhancement for the New Economy (Food SCENE) Dialogues shares research on organizational, social and technological innovations that impact the food supply chain.

Ratings/Rankings

• #2 national ranking in Supply Chain Management (both undergraduate and graduate program) from US News and World Report

• #9 national ranking in Production and Operations Management from US News and World Report

Excellent transportation networks support your end-to-end supply chain

Our central location and exceptional multi-modal transportation network make it easy to connect with every point along your supply and delivery chain. Learn more here.