The Philippine Multimodal Transport and Logistics Association Inc. (PMTLAI) has partnered with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Competitiveness Bureau to introduce the Philippine Quality Award (PQA) program to its members.
The partnership is in line with PMTLAI’s vision for enhancement of performance excellence and competitiveness of the industry.
A half-day orientation was recently conducted at the Hotel Jen where Mary Jean Pacheco, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry-Competitiveness Bureau, discussed “Achieving Performance Excellence through the PQA Framework” and Josephine Abanto, Vice President, Corporate Planning and Quality of AAI Worldwide Logistics, Inc., presented their company’s quality program and their journey toward achieving the 2007 PQA Recognition for Commitment to Quality Management.
The PQA is an integrated approach for performance management that sets the standard of excellence to help Philippine organizations achieve world-class performance. It is also the highest level of national recognition that a Philippine organization can achieve in organizational performance excellence. Established in 1998 and institutionalized in 2001 through R.A. 9013 also known as the Philippine Quality Award Act, it uses a set of criteria that provides local organizations with an integrated, results-oriented framework in implementing and assessing processes. It is patterned after the US Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.
