Ponder This

Feb. 17 | If there’s one point we were happy to see reiterated at our Supply Chain Outlook event over a week ago, it was the bigger role supply chain plays in improving lives, a role that goes beyond delivering goods to the customer.   During his keynote...

Knock-on Effects

Feb. 2 | The Philippine economy performed below expectations in 2018. Gross domestic product grew by only 6.2% in the past year, slower than the government’s target growth range of between 6.5 and 6.9%.   The government itself has conceded that record inflation...

Back on the Cold Chain

Jan. 20 | These past few weeks I’ve seen many posts on social media about farmers up in the north having to throw away their harvest—truckloads of carrots, in this instance —because they can’t sell them. Oversupply, they say.   The same story was on...

Curay is new SCMAP executive director

Jan. 8 | Corazon Curay, the newly appointed Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines executive director. Photo from scmap.org. The Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines’ (SCMAP) has a new executive director in Corazon Curay. Curay...

Liberating

Jan. 6 | My girlfriend has always been interested in art. She’s been following illustrators and painters on social media, and we’ve gone to a handful of exhibits, but not enough, I’ll admit.   Three years ago she decided to pursue it as a hobby. She’s...

The Full Picture

Dec. 25 | During the pre-conference meetings for the recently concluded Logistics Services Philippines Conference I realized what some would call a “bug”, but what I’d call a “feature”, of the whole supply chain sector in the country: there is no one...

Gov’t, private groups sign ‘10 Commitments of PH Logistics Services Sector’

Dec. 10 | At the signing of the Ten Commitments of the Philippine Logistics Services Sector, from L to R: Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary Rowel Barba; Association of CY/CFS Operators of the Philippines president Alexander Ong; Customs Bonded...

Newly elected SCMAP officers to be inducted Feb

Dec. 10 | SCMAP’s Board of Directors for 2019 were first revealed during the organization’s recent Christmas fellowship. From left to right: Nestor Felicio, Unilab; Dina Pilapil, LF Logistics; Christine Pardinas, Rustan Supercenters; Clarissa Castillo,...

Ten Commitments

Dec. 10 | Last week, at the first Logistics Services Philippines Conference, various stakeholders across the supply chain—government agencies and industry associations, including SCMAP —reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring the competitiveness of the logistics...

The Hong Kong Template

Nov. 25 | HONG KONG — “The world is here because Hong Kong is Asia’s most connected city.”   Those were the confident words of Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, as she welcomed the 2,000 delegates to this year’s Asian Logistics and Maritime...