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Supply chain

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Shippers find need to improve technology use in supply chain

Most shippers are not making the most of the growing number of technology tools at their disposal in optimizing operations, according to the results…
  • September 21, 2019
  • 2 minute read

Report tackles implications of warehouse automation for supply chain

Warehouse automation is the innovation that could most significantly affect the transport, logistics and supply chain industry, according to new research from Transport Intelligence…
  • September 2, 2019
  • 3 minute read

What’s In A Name?

A few weeks back we attended an event by the Department of Trade and Industry, unveiling consultations towards the establishment of a new e-commerce…
  • August 17, 2019
  • 4 minute read

E-commerce conference explores customs, trade issues

The physical aspects of cross-border e-commerce take center stage at the “Cross-Border E-Commerce: An International Trade and Customs Perspective” conference on July 26, 2019…
  • May 23, 2019
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What You Need to Consider Before Buying A Freight and Logistics Software

Imagine an integrated platform that channels every process of your company into a tightly knit unit and optimizes resources in a systematic way to…
  • September 20, 2018
  • 3 minute read

The Trade Compliance Profession

Except for a brief stint in government, I have been in the trade compliance profession for more than 15 years. In all those years,…
  • August 12, 2018
  • 4 minute read

Maersk-IBM blockchain platform attracts over 90 participant organizations

A.P. Moller-Maersk and IBM have announced the creation of TradeLens, jointly developed by the two companies to apply blockchain to the world’s global supply…
  • August 12, 2018
  • 3 minute read

Marshals

  Whenever I wrote about supply chain—whether it be for this column, for SCMAP’s magazine Supply Chain Philippines, or elsewhere—I lately tend to avoid…
  • July 25, 2018
  • 4 minute read

Understanding the Surge

  One thing we ought to understand when thinking of surge periods across the supply chain is that, for the most part, these spikes…
  • July 8, 2018
  • 4 minute read

Victory Group banks on strong logistics growth to power business

In the highly competitive field of Philippine logistics, newcomer supply chain solutions provider Victory Group of Companies believes there is more than enough room…
  • April 18, 2018
  • 3 minute read

Making Sense of the Last Mile

  Early this week one of my colleagues at the SCMAP Secretariat bought a phone charging pad online. She had it delivered to our…
  • March 19, 2018
  • 4 minute read

The Bold New Logistics Driven by Digital Technology

Logistics companies tend to show less interest in investing in technology innovations compared to other industries. The use of technology is also not as…
  • February 18, 2018
  • 1 minute read

EO identifying DOTr as overseer of MTOs almost ready

The draft executive order (EO) that will designate the Department of Transportation (DOTr) as the Philippines’ competent national body that will oversee multimodal transport…
  • February 9, 2018
  • 3 minute read

PH study bares long list of grievances by logistics service providers

Government restrictions in the form of laws and regulations can adversely affect the price, reliability, and quality of distribution, multimodal transport, and logistics (DML)…
  • December 30, 2017
  • 5 minute read

Rustan Supercenters’ Pardiñas to lead SCMAP in 2019-20

Christine Pardiñas is set to assume the presidency of the Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines (SCMAP) for a two-year term starting 2019,…
  • December 10, 2017
  • 2 minute read

Why Enter Logistics?

  The Lucio Tan group is the next conglomerate looking to grow their presence in the logistics industry. While it already operates several companies…
  • November 1, 2017
  • 3 minute read

A question of scale

Two years ago I wrote, for our magazine Supply Chain Philippines, an article looking at how the entry of foreign retail brands into the…
  • October 15, 2017
  • 4 minute read

BOC order specifies rules for AEO setup in PH

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has issued the rules and regulations for the establishment of an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) program in the Philippines.…
  • August 29, 2017
  • 3 minute read

PH logistics survey finds reliability as key supply chain concern

A survey by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) links low logistics performance in the Philippines to high logistics cost, and identifies reliability…
  • August 8, 2017
  • 2 minute read