Francis

Feb. 14 | Last Friday night SCMAP held the induction of its incoming officials – directors and committee chairpersons, at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, in a simple ceremony. Basically the ceremony included just the necessary parts. Welcome remarks by outgoing President...

A Running Start

Jan. 31 | 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, 2012 to discuss the composition and leadership of the different committees. On Jan. 11-19 SCMAP sent two participants to...

Oil Again

Jan. 19 | Oil Price Watch From October 2007 to September 2008 I wrote 5 columns which dealt with oil prices and their effect on transport cost and supply chains. In October 2007 crude oil breached $90 per barrel. Subsequently crude oil breached $100, then $130,...

2011 & 2012
By IKE CASTILLO

Jan. 3 | Almost exactly a year ago, we had a guest columnist. He was then the new President of Fast Logistics and, very appropriately, he wrote about TPLs (entitled 3PL’s Next Level of Value Proposition to the Customer) For this issue, we have him again as guest...

Professionalization

Dec. 19 | SCMAP presses on with its drive towards professionalization. In 2010 the Japanese institutions JETRO and AOTS (Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship) sent to the Philippines a consultant in Logistics Management, Prof. Sakai, who served as consultant...

New Board

Dec. 6 | At the last GMM on Nov. 25, 2011, the SCMAP membership present elected the ten directors that would serve in the year 2012. The by-laws provide for a term of only one year, so there is an annual election The election procedure was revised this year from...

Roster Cleanup

Nov. 22 | 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 with the passing of time, the active representative either got transferred to a...

Top 1,000 Corporations

Nov. 9 | 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 over the last five years, the number of SCMAP members making it to the top 200 has gone...

Newsbits

Oct. 25 | GMM Guests The fourth GMM of 2011 held last Oct. 21 marked the first time many guests (more than 10) were invited. This is a new direction aiming to expand membership by exposing possible members to the workings of SCMAP. Seen at the last GMM were guests...

Delayed Victory

Oct. 12 | Conference Notes SCMAP wound up activities in this year’s annual conference and exhibit last September 23 at the cocktails. While this year’s event did not improve on last year’s attendance numbers, as is usually the case, SCMAP achieved two firsts. • The...