Chelsea Logistics adapts to new, advanced technology amid pandemic
Chelsea Logistics and the Chelsea Group harnessed the power of digitalization to take customer experience and employee efficiency to the next level during the pandemic. The move, inspired by Chelsea Logistics President & CEO Chryss Alfonsus V. Damuy, identified early on that digital transformation was one of the key milestones achieved by the Group as the country and the business community faced uncertainty brought by the global pandemic.
Internally, Chelsea Logistics hastened its digitization efforts by converting its manual processes to automatic applications which enhanced employees’ performance and customer interaction. Its shipping lines, SuperCat and Trans-Asia Shipping Lines now use SAP S4 HANA, a future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
The Chelsea Logistics President & CEO said: “The pandemic taught us that digital transformation is not aspirational but rather foundational. With the assistance of the Udenna Group’s DITO CME, we streamlined our technology investments.”
Starlite Ferries, Trans-Asia, and SuperCat have rolled out their unified online booking system, developed in partnership with BARKOTA for optimized customer service.
Chelsea Logistics tapped Amazon Web Services (AWS) for hosting major applications on the cloud. The consolidation allowed the integration of real-time data via AWS QuickSight a Business Intelligence tool.
With the promising growth of e-commerce logistics, Worklink Services (WSI), Inc., Chelsea Logistics’ distribution and logistics arm, has launched a warehousing and transport management system to increase supply chain efficiency, improve the flow of incoming and outgoing inventory, and track drivers and shipments’ real-time movement.
Chelsea Logistics Technology Department Head Efren Bernardino shared the Group’s target to digitize all internal business processes by Q4 2022 through standardizing the productivity tools and use of robotics process automation.
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Globe online safety, e-waste management orientation
Globe, in partnership with the National Housing Authority (NHA), has completed the online safety and e-waste management program orientation of 339 homeowners in Luzon. The company extended its sustainability programs to the NHA Homeowners Associations (HOAs) in 24 different cities and municipalities, eyeing sustainability adoption at the community level.
For NHA HOAs, Globe provides online safety education. Globe trained homeowners, mainly the head of the family, to become DTP ambassadors. The program allows them to understand the impact of online behavior and teach young ones to be safe and responsible online.
The DTP trainings were held in the NHA housing communities in Muntinlupa City, Pasay City, Quezon City, San Jose Del Monte City, Cabuyao City, Naga City, Baguio City, Caloocan City, Paranaque City, Las Pinas City, Mandaluyong City, and Valenzuela City as well as in Dasmarinas, Cavite; Macabebe, Pampanga; San Pedro, Laguna; San Fernando, Pampanga; Calamba, Laguna, Camarines Sur; Trece Martires, Cavite City; Sta Cruz, Laguna; Poblacion, Muntinlupa; Malabon, Metro Manila; and Pateros, Metro Manila.
Globe also committed to conduct its E-Waste Zero Program for all interested communities under NHA’s care. The program ensures that end-of-life electronic devices like old mobile phones and non-working gadgets and appliances do not end up in landfills, in support of RA 9003 – The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, and RA 6969 – Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990.
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Free MSME booster program
ChatGenie, a mini-app development startup company, introduces MSME Booster Program which aims to provide micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) six months of free online store on Messenger, Instagram, Viber, GCash, and other business tools.
ChatGenie wants to make e-commerce simple, easy, and convenient for both sellers and their customers. It provides online stores inside Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Viber, GCash, and other Super Apps with no commission fees to businesses and retail brands. Its features include end-to-end solutions from online ordering to online payments via partners like GCash, PayMaya, BPI, PayMongo, and Paynamics among others. Deliveries are fulfilled via partners like Grab Express and Lalamove.
The Booster program comes with benefits such as exclusive guides and insights on emerging eCommerce trends and exclusive access to events like webinars and workshops with speakers from Facebook and PayMongo. Participants will also get free online payment processing fees for 2 months courtesy of PayMongo, zero disbursement fees from NextPay, and business-grade fiber for only P90 for the first 90 days with free cancellation fees from PLDT Enterprise.
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EEI accelerates digital transformation
EEI Corp. has accelerated its digital transformation ensuring a qualitative leap in empowering its services, which in turn results in faster turnaround time and world-class structures.
EEI adopted the Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) tools utilized by the global engineering and construction industry prior to the onset of COVID-19 pandemic.
One of EEI’s latest innovations is the Reality Capture technology to address the mobility restrictions and challenges brought about by the pandemic.
Reality Capture enables remote job site monitoring and supervision, thus allowing management and project teams unparalleled access to visual ground truth in the form of regularly collected jobsite photos compiled using 360 degree cameras.
It allows remote access to a rich library of 360-degree photo documentation of existing site conditions, which ensures compliance to EEI’s very high quality and safety standards.
EEI uses a common data environment (CDE) as a primary tool to manage project information and coordination related to specifications, resources requirements and various issues that are encountered during the execution phase of the construction program.
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Globe bags two INSPIRE Tech Awards
Globe bagged two prestigious honors from the CIO Academy Asia’s inaugural INSPIRE Tech Awards 2021, besting nominees from other Southeast Asian countries for their “Best Use of Data for Customer Experience Excellence” and “Best Use of Cloud to Increase Productivity.”
The Singapore-based INSPIRE Tech Awards 2021 acknowledged 17 end-user organizations last Oct. 28for their strategically deployed technology that aimed to address challenges in the shifting business landscape.
Winners were chosen by a panel of judges based on business impact, productivity gains, customer experience improvement, innovativeness and creativity, and transformation resilience.
The company’s Information Services Group’s (ISG) Cloud entry, “Accelerating Digital Adoption Through Citizen Development” program, was also selected as a finalist in the Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards 2021 under the category “Best Achievement in Process Automation.”
Through this program, Globe employees are empowered to create automated business processes and address executional barriers using a platform that does not require programming knowledge.
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Aboitiz bags Agora award
The Aboitiz Group recently bagged the prestigious Agora Award for Outstanding Achievement in Advocacy Marketing in support of the United Nations Global Compact.
The award is given by the Philippine Marketing Association to Philippine-based companies that have institutionalized advocacy marketing, corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, and initiatives that support the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Filipino beneficiaries.
As a company that operates in various critical sectors, the Group recognizes its unique responsibility to its stakeholders: building products and services as an inclusive business, in order to create opportunities to uplift the Group’s partner communities across the country.
The Aboitiz Group’s sustainability initiatives and their key performance indicators highlight the organization’s contribution to poverty reduction, education, climate change, responsible consumption, disaster preparedness, technological innovation, and institutional partnership.
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Parol making contest
Eton Properties will host QC LGU’s Christmas parol lighting ceremony in its BPO-IT lifestyle hub”• Eton Centris on EDSA, Quezon City.
Titled, “Kumukutikutitap: A Hopeful and Golden Pinoy Christmas”, the parol making contest is open to all barangays in Quezon City. To register and qualify, residents need to coordinate their participation with their respective barangay chairmen to be considered as official entries. Approximately 142 entries, representing all the barangays in Quezon City, are expected to join the contest. All entries will be displayed and lighted at the same time in Eton Centris along EDSA, Quezon City on Dec. 13, 2021.
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ePLDT expands TIA-942 certifications
ePLDT has expanded its TIA-942 Design Certifications to four data centers–currently the most number of the said global certification achieved by a data center service provider in the country.
The design certification means ePLDT’s data center facilities conform to the stringent standards of TIA-942 guidelines ensuring that any data center component–including major apparatus and equipment–can be removed, replaced, or repaired without disrupting the operations of its customers.
ePLDT currently owns the largest telco-neutral data center network in the country under the VITRO brand, which are strategically located across the Philippine archipelago. To date, only five data centers in the country have received the said TIA-942 Design Certification rating, four of which are from ePLDT including VITRO Makati, VITRO Clark, VITRO Cebu 2, and the newly-accredited VITRO Parañaque.
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Cinema promo
Araneta City is launching the ‘Click, Book, and Repeat’ promo. For purchase of two tickets to any film showing using the Araneta City mobile app, one gets another ticket at no extra charge.
The promo runs until November 30 at Gateway Cineplex 10, and from November 24 to November 30 at Ali Mall Cinemas.
Upcoming films include the remake of the sci-fi classic Dune, Marvel’s Eternals, No Time to Die and Spider-Man No Way Home.
