Workshop on National Single Window and Global Competitiveness of the Logistics Industry

Workshop on National Single Window and Global Competitiveness of the Logistics Industry

Date  : 19 January 2011
Time  : 8.00 am - 5.00 pm
Venue  : Meeting Room - MITRANS

Please contact :

Nor Bakhriah Sarbani
Tel: 03-5544 2722
HP: 012-2794916
Email: norbakhriah80@yahoo.com


Introduction :

Globalization of trade and services gives big impacts to businesses around the world. Recently, the liberalisation of the service sectors that is coming into force within the ASEAN countries has indicated that businesses have to reconsider and realign their business strategies. The open up of trade of goods and ser-vices within the ASEAN countries has led to more intense competition , which reflects the importance to be more competitive in order to stay longer in business. This scenario should be taken as a challenge by the industry players especially in logis-tics due to their function in facilitating the trading activities worldwide.

Similarly, the demand for an efficient and effective information management that can support the trade process is becoming crucial. Thus, Single Window has become a vital mechanism that can promote better regional trade process. Single window is ini-tiated to improve the clearance process and act as a solution to multiple windows, which could enhance the industry productivity.

In Malaysia, as part of the trade facilitation plan, the development of national single window led by Dagang Net Sdn Bhd has increasingly benefitted the logistics industry through the custom system that bridge the trade process especially with related government agencies and traders.

Professorial Lecture "Ethics and the Green Engineering"

Invitation for Professorial Lecture by Ir. Dr. Ruslan Hassan (our team advisor)

Date : 22 December 2010
Time : 9am to 12.30 noon
Venue : Annexe Hall, UiTM Shah Alam

Invitation : Talk on Port Strategy

MITRANS will be organizing a talk on Port Strategy to be delivered by our guest speaker , Dr. Michael Underdown from Perth, Australia . The tentative program is as follows : 


       Title         : AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL PORT STRATEGY 
       Date        : 30th November 2010 
       Venue     : Lecture Hall , Bangunan HotCat Lama,UiTM Shah Alam 
                         (next to UPENA / RMI)
       Time        : 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm 

        
We look forward to your participation. Please extend this invitation to those who are interested or whom you believe will benefit  to join this program. 

Seats are limited (50 pax only). Kindly confirm your participation before or by the 26th November 2010 through e-mail or contact us at 03-5544 2723 (Pn. Azmin Faranaz) 03-5544 2343 / 2343 / 2348 (Puan Hazwani). 

MITRANS - Round Table Discussion@11th November 2010

There will be two round table discussions on 11 September 2010 (Thurs) organized under focus area - "Infrastructure at port" . The details of these discussions are as follows:

DISCUSSION 1 :

TITLE : THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PORT CITIES TOWARDS GREEN LOGISTICS

TIME : 8.30 am - 10.30 am

CONTACT PERSON : NORAINI ANOR ( 013-2757996)

DISCUSSION 2 :

TITLE : THE PLANNING OF LOGISTICS VILLAGE - A NEW CONCEPT FOR GOODS DISTRIBUTION IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

TIME : 10.30 am - 1.00 pm

CONTACT PERSON : SABRI ( 0139375418)

The venue for this program will be at MITRANS UiTM i-Learn Meeting Room. Please liase with the assigned contact person(s) if you are interested to join

What is the Green Economy?

What Is The Green Economy And What Does That Mean For You?

The Green Economy is a movement which is directed toward introducing a more thorough manner of bringing green practices and sustainable resources into a normal routine of people all over the world. It's going to be important to make sure that we all start using less and recycling products more if we hope to actually keep this planet healthy enough for us to live on long into the future. Ultimately, the movement of the Green Economy is the way that the planet is going to have to move if we want to ensure the longest possible future for coming generations.

If you want to make this happen, however, you need to start looking into the Green Economy now. It's one thing to start making small changes in our personal lives which can have a big difference on the harm which is coming to the planet. Small changes will only get us so far, however, as commerce is one of the biggest contributing harms which comes to the environment. Starting to bring the Green Economy into the workplace is going to be essential if you hope to save the planet from utter destruction from the overuse of natural resources.

You should be able to start making a difference within the Green Economy movement by starting smarter practices in the workplace. Find ways to reduce the amount of trash which is being produced and conserve as many resources as possible. This is still not enough, however, and you may want to think about how you could begin to adapt your business so that you are more in line with taking the Green Economy even further. Focus on the ways in which you can start selling green products and services in addition to using more eco-friendly practices in the workplace.

One of the biggest ways that you can give the Green Economy more success is by looking into jobs which promote the use of sustainable energy. Wind and Solar power are two outstanding ways in which you can generate electricity without using much and adapting your business to these sources can help you be a vital part of the Green Economy. Any steps that you take which are going to make it easier for you to make the smallest possible carbon footprint will prove to be a vital part of turning the Green Economy into a vital part of the global marketplace and helping to ultimately make the world a healthier place.

Read more: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/what-is-the-green-economy-and-what-does-that-mean-for-you-1914749.html#ixzz14UIzq9Pg

Cost Optimization and Competitive Pricing for 3PL Companies (04.11.2010)

Below are some snapshot of the event :

The organizer, Sahidah Zakariah (baju kurung)
with our team researcher, Roslina Ahmad

Slide snapshot from Dr. Amin

Dr. Mohamed Amin Kassim, our
speaker today

The panel members

Roslina, Bob and Mr. Joshua from MITI

The workshop

Bob from MITRANS, in action

En. Saiful, Logistics Officer from Phytes Biotek

Pn. Norazlina (left) from SA Kargo

Farid, our researcher with Dr. Amin





Cost Optimization and Competitive Pricing for 3PL Companies (Highlight)

Date : 04/11/2010

Time : 1.30pm - 5.30pm

Location : Seminar Hall, UiTM International Centre

Our team has attended the workshop this afternoon, organized by MITRANS. With the main title focusing on the competitive pricing for 3PL companies in Malaysia, the workshop has been attended by the practitioners from the industry and the academicians from UiTM. Started at 1.30 noon until 5.30pm.

A very good workshop that discussed the current issue and way forward for 3PL companies in supporting Malaysia competitiveness as a trading country, Dato’ Samsudin Abd. Rahman a Managing Director from SA Kargo has highlighted three main criteria on how the 3PL to remain competitive in their pricing strategy.

1. Integrated supply chain
2. Consolidation
3. ICT involvement

Dato’ Samsudin in his presentation “Competitive Pricing in Logistics Industry Towards Long-run Sustainability”, also highlighted in order to achieve this, it requires a coordination and support from all parties within the supply chain network.

The second presentation from Dr. Mohamed Amin Kassim, Deputy MD for Century Logistics Holdings Bhd. He is also a member of Malaysia Logistics Council and a very strong supporter of MITRANS. In his presentation “Cost Optimization through Efficient Practice in Logistics Industry Towards Competitive Pricing”, Dr. Amin highlighted the level of 3PL competitiveness in Malaysia as an origin and destination for the exporters and importers.

While it is relatively competitive for Malaysia in comparing with other countries, but still require a lot of things and review with regards to current policies and infrastructures.

The workshop was then followed by a panel discussion and questions from the participants.

Lower cost doesn’t means to sacrifice the service levels, but encourage the players to think and execute the most effective and efficient ways in managing the cost to remain competitive for their future sustainability.

While, we agreed that nobody can’t work in silo within the supply chain network, this workshop is a good platform to integrate and promoting further cooperation between the stakeholders. Some challenges, moving forward are the government decision to liberalize the logistics industry by 2013. 

Further study will be carried out by MITRANS researchers to come up the cost optimization modeling. The study will be lead by Dr. Jaafar Pyeman from MITRANS.

Malaysia Institute of Transport (MITRANS) is organizing series of forum and workshop with regards to the latest issue in logistics and supply chain.

We will update you for future workshop.


Clink here for the snapshot 
http://greenandsustainability.blogspot.com/2010/11/cost-optimization-and-competitive_1097.html