Flash! Conference Sponsorships Still Available. Inquire at scmap.org@gmail.com Today we follow the progress of this year’s Salute to Supply Chain Excellence competition. What…
August 12, 2012
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More on the 2012 Conference
As the conference days draw near, preparations for SCMAP’s Annual Conference are getting more hectic. There are seven weeks to go. The schedule is…
July 29, 2012
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2012 Conference
Preparations for SCMAP’s Annual Conference are going full blast, with less than two months to go. The schedule is as follows: Date Sept.…
July 17, 2012
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Amendment Vote
The general membership meeting scheduled for June 21, 2012 was postponed by one week to June 28. The two key items in the…
July 1, 2012
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Salute To Excellence
Today we have another guest columnist, another SCMAP past president. Ana Rose Ochoa, or Ochie, as she is popularly called, was president in 2004.…
June 6, 2012
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Changes As Promised
At the induction last Feb. 10, incoming president Ike Castillo made a promise, that 2012 would be a different year for SCMAP. So…
May 22, 2012
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Special Truck Ban
The holding of the 45th annual meeting of the ADB Board of Governors in Manila caused a problem in Metro Manila traffic late last week.…
May 8, 2012
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April Blockbuster
I had a sudden domestic problem just before the press deadline on Saturday. A water pipe in my garden broke and sprung a strong…
April 25, 2012
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Upcoming Activities
SCMAP has just released its list of upcoming activities. Blockbuster Seminar-GMM, April 26, 2012 First of all, SCMAP invites colleagues to its 2-part blockbuster…
April 9, 2012
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PPA Hearings
Despite our hopeless feeling in attending the two Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) hearings last March 20, 2012, we still went ahead and attended. The…
March 27, 2012
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Battles Vs Rising Costs
With the onslaught of rising oil prices business mood appears to be resigned, like ‘there’s nothing we can do ‘. The rise in global…
March 14, 2012
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First General Membership Meeting
At the induc-tion of SCMAP officials last Feb. 10, 2012 Presi-dent Ike Castillo promised that 2012 would be different, ending his talk with “But…
February 29, 2012
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Francis
Last Friday night SCMAP held the induction of its incoming officials – directors and committee chairpersons, at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, in a simple…
February 14, 2012
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A Running Start
After a simple blessing of SCMAP’s office on Dec. 26, 2011, SCMAP started the new year with its first board meeting on January 6,…
January 31, 2012
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Oil Again
Oil Price Watch From October 2007 to September 2008 I wrote 5 columns which dealt with oil prices and their effect on transport cost…
January 19, 2012
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2011 & 2012 By IKE CASTILLO
Almost exactly a year ago, we had a guest columnist. He was then the new President of Fast Logistics and, very appropriately, he wrote…
January 3, 2012
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Professionalization
SCMAP presses on with its drive towards professionalization. In 2010 the Japanese institutions JETRO and AOTS (Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship) sent to the…
December 19, 2011
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New Board
At the last GMM on Nov. 25, 2011, the SCMAP membership present elected the ten directors that would serve in the year 2012. The…
December 6, 2011
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Roster Cleanup
For quite sometime SCMAP’s membership roster had been ‘littered’ with names of inactive and delinquent member companies. These companies had been active before, but…
November 22, 2011
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Top 1,000 Corporations
BusinessWorld recently released its annual Top 1,000 Corporations publication, covering year 2010. Although I have not carried out a detailed analysis, it seems that…
