01 — Local economy
Business in St. Louis, MO
F-15 fighters and T-7 trainers roll out of Boeing's defense plant beside St. Louis Lambert airport, and Anheuser-Busch still brews at its Soulard brewery. Bayer Crop Science and the Danforth Plant Science Center lead an agricultural-science cluster, BJC, Centene, Edward Jones, Stifel and Nestlé Purina are headquartered in the region, and barge and rail terminals on the Mississippi move grain and bulk freight.
Also known as STL and Saint Louis.
Where software helps: St. Louis grain merchants, barge operators and ag-input distributors need contract and basis tracking, quality and weight adjustments at delivery, and freight settlement across river, rail and truck that general ledgers cannot model.