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Advancing Technology while lowering

down the cost: Fact or Fiction

ASITEP held their General Membership Meeting (GMM) alongside their Christmas party last Dec. 5, 2012, at Bellevue Hotel, Alabang. Having the theme, “Advancing Technology while Lowering Down the Cost: Fact or Fic-tion,” the presentations were indeed very informative as well as enlightening.

ASITEP members are asked to fill out the activity form by getting signatures from other members,

which would then entitle them to join the major raffle draw.

(L to R): Francis Capili, Moog Control; Art Rayo, Analog Devices;

Jeric Ferrer, Pricon Microelectronics; Narcelino Lim, Ricoh; Dominic Romanelli, TRT Global

and Ronald Kwok, Fritz & Macziol

Upon registration, the first 100 attendees received the ASITEP shirts as the event’s give-away item. In addi-

tion, to encourage networking among the members, a small activity was prepared. This also served as a

chance for everyone to be entitled to join the major raffle draw.

To officially start the event, the ASITEP Chairman, Mr. Francis Capili (Moog), delivered his opening remarks,

followed by the SEIPI Industry Updates, which was delivered by Mr. Art Rayo (Analog).

Mr. Jeric Ferrer then delivered a very interactive presentation on Open Source Technologies. This was fol-

lowed by Ricoh’s vendor presentation on “Smarter Office Within your Reach” presented by Mr. Narcelino Lim,

Global Major Acct. & MDS Grp. Rep. Second to the last vendor presentation was TRT Global’s topic on

“Making the Complex Simple – Reducing Operational Risk and Driving Down Expenditure,” delivered by TRT’s

CEO, Mr. Dominic Romanelli.

Delivering the last vendor presentation was one of SEIPI’s newest members, Fritz & Macziol, with their topic

on “Data Deduplication” presented by Mr. Ronald Kwok, IT Architect.

With the first half being allotted to technical presentations, the audience was really able to unwind and relax on

the second part as it was wholly dedicated to the Christmas party and abundant raffle draws. To entertain the

crowd, the band played contemporary songs with some of the ASITEP BODs even singing along with them.

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(First row): The Music Band and some ASITEP BODs jamming with the band namely Francis Capili singing Eric Clapton’s

Wonderful Tonight, (Second row) Jeric Ferrer’s rendition of U2’s With or Without You, Lito Nepomuceno’s version of

Eraserhead, Ang Huling El Bimbo; and Jun Tayco singing an OPM song.

Indeed, the event would not have been complete without the usual raffle draws. The prizes ranged from Marks &

Spencer goodies, iPad sleeves, laptop bags, cellphones, speakers, hard drives, North Face bag, and of course, the

major raffle prize – an iPad Mini!

Raffle Draws: Pool of Prizes

Some of the raffle draw winners

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Before the major raffle prize was awarded, the ASITEP BODs were awarded plaques of appreciation by SEIPI

to honor their never ending support, passion and commitment to the betterment of the committee.

Ending the party with a bang, the major raffle prize - an iPad Mini - was raffled off and awarded to the win-

ner, Mr. Patrick James Medina, representing Pricon.

(L to R): ASITEP BODs ‘12 - Francis Capili, Moog Controls; Jeric Ferrer, Pricon Microelectronics;

Lito Nepomuceno, TDK; Art Rayo, Analog Devices, Cora dela Cruz, Acbel Polytech;

Kei Superable, Globe Business in behalf of Mr. Gilbert Virtucio; Jun Tayco, Emerson Network;

HGST in behalf of Ms. Jona Paguio and Mr. Jovic Dianco, Amkor in behalf of Gina Acuña

SEIPI Annual Business Partners

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Wanting to celebrate the season with those who need it the most, ASPA decided to visit Elsie Gatches, which serves as the only government center for the mentally challenged persons. It provides care and rehabilita-tion to abandoned, neglected, children with special needs, such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, visual and hearing impairment, mental retardation, autism and other related illnesses. The center was estab-lished on February 3, 1964. It has 14 cottages that can accommodate up to 470 clients at a given time (EGV, 2010). However, they are currently catering to 603 clients. To graciously welcome ASPA, the children generously offered a song and dance number to the tune of Justin Bieber’s “Baby.” The distribution of some goods (i.e toiletries, sacks of rice) from SEIPI-ASPA as well some additional donations from other SEIPI members ensued after. Before the program officially came to a close, words of encouragement were spoken by ASPA’s chairperson, Ms. Martel De Guzman.

The outreach ended with a facility tour of the cottages where some of the chosen clients reside in.

“It is never too early to share the joy of Christmas” – ASPA holds true to this account as they celebrate their Christmas party last Nov. 29, 2012 at Bellevue Hotel, Alabang.

ASPA: Christmas in November

SEIPI-ASPA volunteers visiting the chosen cottages at Elsie Gatches

(L to R): Martel De Guzman, ASPA Chairperson delivering the opening remarks

and the SEIPI-ASPA volunteers distributing the goodies

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After the outreach activity, ASPA then celebrated their Christmas party at Belle-

vue Hotel, Alabang. Having Polka Dots as their theme, some of the attendees

showed up with their fancy outfits. Grabbing the Best in Attire award was Ms.

Cecille Abiad (Amkor), with her pink polka dots cover up.

For the rest of the day, the ASPA members enjoy various games ranging from

Christmas tongue twisters, the marshmal-

low game, and the dice game with lots of

raffle draws happening in between.

Indeed, ASPA’s Christmas in November was a combination of selfless giving and pure fun. It is definitely a day

not just for the benefit of the members, but also for one of the marginalized sectors of our society.

Candidates for the Best in Attire

Contest (Bagging the award was

Ms. Cecille Abiad, 2nd from the left)

First row: The ASPA BODs ’12 and some ASPA members playing the Christmas tongue twisters game.

Second row: Some volunteers playing the marshmallow game

Third row: One of the games the members enjoy playing the most – the dice game

Fourth row: The ASPA members forming a circle for the exchange gift portion

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Mr. Willy Jose, formerly from Acbel, delivered his presentation on Life After Retirement and shared some in-

sights into his personal experience about his first year of retirement: its reality, challenges as well as the

pleasure it brings.

The Business Continuity Simulation presentation by Moog’s Mr. Francis Capili was divided into three (3) im-

perative phases, namely, the Preparedness Review, Technical Simulation, and Actual Coordinated Simula-

tion. Before he delved deep into the three abovementioned categories, Mr. Capili first offered an overview of

the leading causes of operational disruptions such as: severe weather, power outages, floods, and others

(fire, earthquakes, chemical spills, various IT-related interruptions). Other than this, he also gave a back-

ground on the need to simulate and the tools necessary for simulation.

Following the aforementioned topic was Globe’s Mr. Gilbert Virtucio’s presentation on Telco Tools for Busi-

ness Continuity. As a background on his topic, Mr. Virtucio claimed that the recovery of critical business func-

tions was typically made easier with the use of technology. With this, his presentation described several telco

tools that customers can use to help them in their business continuity needs such as: Rapid Information Dis-

semination, Text Broadcasting using TxtConnect, Remote Access to Enterprise Applications, Globe Tattoo

Broadband, Data Center Services for Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Computing. To conclude his presenta-

tion, he mentioned that “in today’s environment, businesses need to be prepared for events that were previ-

ously considered fortuitous or acts of God. It is from this need that business continuity came about. Using a

structured methodology, a company can determine its critical business functions and map out its recovery

plans accordingly. As such, there are telco tools available that can help a company achieve its business con-

tinuity objectives.”

The last vendor presentation was delivered by Fritz & Macziol’s IT Architect, Mr. Ronald Kwok, whose pres-

entation topic focuses on Business Resilience & Continuity – ‘A good offense is the best defence.’ He started

by defining business resilience and continuity as well as answering some key questions related to the said

topic. In summary, some of the discussion highlights included the following:

1. Financial consequences of incidents can be significant, but business resilience and continuity is not just

an IT issue. There are many external drivers and interest groups for a sound business and continuity

ASITEP held their Sept. GMM last Sept. 19, 2012 at Alabang Country Club.

Before the lineup of technical presentations, the new set of ASITEP BODs FY

’12-’13 was officially introduced. This was followed by a series of four (4) inter-

esting and timely learning sessions.

ASITEP GMM: Business

Continuity and Resiliency

(1): Willy Jose accepts his Certificate of Appreciation after his sharing on Life After Retirement

- Francis Capili (Chairperson), Willy Jose and Jun Tayco (ASITEP BOD)

(2): Francis Capili delivers his presentation on Business Continuity Simulation

(3): Francis Capili with Jona Paguio (HGST) awarding the Certificate of Appreciation to

Gilbert Virtucio (Globe) after his talk on Telco Tools for Business Continuity

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plan (i.e investors, media, banks, insurers, etc.).

2. Aspects and objectives of business resilience and continuity include high availability, continuous operations,

and disaster recovery.

3. Typical IT business recovery metrics to watch: Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objective

(RPO), Network Recovery Objective (NRO).

4. Continuity Planning is the logical first step to develop and support a business resilience strategy aligned to

your specific risk tolerance and business requirements.

5. New breed of systems – Built-in expertise, Simplified Experience, Integration by Design

To spice up the event, minor and major items were raffled off with the help of our generous sponsors (i.e Globe,

DTSI, and Fritz & Macziol) who donated exciting raffle prizes such as USBs, Bags, a Samsung ES90 Digital

Camera, Olympus VG-110, and the Coby Touchscreen internet tablet. Will all these, the attendees definitely had

a day filled with interesting and informative presentations coupled with a chance to bring home thrilling prizes.

One of the lucky raffle draw winners receiving this prize Francis Capili, SEIPI-ASITEP (Left) and Ronald Kwok,

FUM (3rd from the Left) together with the rest of Fritz

& Macziol (FUM) Team.

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ASLM held their General Membership Meeting last November 22, 2012 at Palms

Country Club, Alabang. After the welcome remarks, ASLM’s chairperson,

Ms. Malou Ronquillo of EMS Components, delivered the ASLM and

BOC updates as well as the survey results for the Training Needs

and Batangas Port.

ASLM November General

Membership Meeting

After which came the series of learning sessions focus-

ing mainly on Brokerage & Customs Clearance and In-

coterms by Airlift Asia Inc. (AAI) and the LCL Services

by Royal Cargo.

Royal Cargo’s Ms. Virginia Jamila, VP – Sales & Mar-

keting started the technical presentation on LCL Ser-

vices. As an introduction, she enumerated the chal-

lenges of inbound LCL customers such as: cost of de-

consolidation/warehousing charges are very high, con-

signees do not have negotiating leverage, suppliers at

origin receive rebates from consolidators, public bonded

warehouses are slow in the stripping of the cargo, and

public bonded warehouses operate within unsecured

environments. She also illustrated the existing process,

which is the Off Dock Deconsolidation Process, which

starts on the vessel’s arrival at the Port of Manila fol-

lowed by the processing (transfer payment at BOC, car-

rier and port charges payment, and discharging), then

the x-ray, direct transfer of FCL from POM to Public

Bonded WH, and lastly, CBW will do the stripping of

container. She ended her presentation with the Royal

Cargo LCL Solution with a revised on dock deconsoli-

dation process, customer advantages and benefits, and

the rates to apply.

Following Royal Cargo’s presentation and providing a

detailed discussion on the topic on Brokerage & Cus-

toms Clearance as well as Incoterms was Mr. Dino

Navarra, Sales and Marketing Head, AAI. His course

content included the following: Import Customs Clear-

ance Workflow (Air Freight, Sea Freight), Incoterms

2010 (Introduction to Incoterms, The International

Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Introducing Incoterms

2010, How to Use Incoterms 2010, Incoterms 2010

Rule Classification (Rules for any mode/s of transporta-

tion, Rules for sea and inland waterway transport, and

Incoterms 2010 tips).

To serve as a souvenir of the event, the ASLM mem-

bers took a group photo after the delivery of the closing

remarks.

(R to L): Virginia

Jamila accepts the

Certificate of

Appreciation from

Lani Gorgonia

(former ASLM

BOD) and Malou

Ronquillo

(L to R):

Dino Navarra

accepting his

Certificate of

Appreciation from

Lani Gorgonia

The SEIPI-ASLM’s November GMM at Palms Country Club, Alabang

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ON Semiconductor opened their doors to ASPM members during

the latter’s October 19, 2012 meeting at ON Semiconductor, Cavite. Mr. Sunil

Banwari, GM, ON Semiconductor, delivered his opening remarks welcoming

all ASPM members in the latter’s October General Membership Meeting.

First in the lineup of presentations was Ms. Ma. Veronica Magsino’s talk revolving around PEZA’s Integrity Pledge. This is line with PEZA’s oath to champion the crusade against corruption by signing into the Euro-pean Chamber of Commerce of the Philippins (ECCP) and Makati Busi-ness Club led Integrity Initiative project (ECCP, 2012). In addition, it had been reported that DG De Lima claims that by signing the Integrity Pledge, they are stressing their special economic zones as premier models on how the Philippines deal with investors in the country (ECCP, 2012). As such, the Integrity Pledge is a formal and definite demonstration of allegiance by companies and organization that they will abide by ethical business practices and espouse a national cam-paign against corruption (ECCP, 2012).

Following PEZA’s lead, it is expected that approximately 2,700 PEZA locators in the country, which currently employs more than 800,000 Filipinos to individually sign the Integrity Pledge within the year 2012 (ECCP, 2012). Subsequent to PEZA’s talk on Integrity Pledge was MK Slider’s supplier technical presentation. Ms. Deduyo’s Solvency presentation follows afterwhich. Focusing on Solvency Risk Analysis, Ms. Deduyo started with the ba-sics by first discussing the definition of terms of the following: asset, liabilities, equity, working capital, net in-come, sales, and cash flow from operating activities. This was then followed by a discussion on the definitions of the Altman Z score, Quick Ratio, Current Ratio, Debt-Equity Ratio, and the Debt-Asset Ratio. She proceeded afterwards with a detailed explanation of the Supplier Tiering Tool, Cypress Solvency Review Process, and the Solvency Score Computation. Delivering the final presentation was Transprocure’s Mr. Mark Mojares, who gave updates on ASPM and Tran-sprocure’s Group Buying Project.

Before the event officially came to a close, the ASPM members enjoyed the raffle items being given away as well as a parting group shot, which served as a memento for the said occasion.

ON Semiconductor Welcomes ASPM Members

Veronica Magsino, PEZA delivering her

presentation on PEZA’s Integrity Pledge

(L to R): Representative from the MK Slider; Shirley Deduyo, Cypress and Mark Mojares, Transprocure

The SEIPI-ASPM’s

October GMM at

On Semiconductor, Cavite

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The SEIPI golfers surely had fun at the SEIPI Golf Fellowship @ Clark held last July 26, 2012 at FA Korea C.C Fontana Golf Club Inc. in Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga.

SEIPI Golf Fellowship @ Clark

The tee-off started at 12:30 and the last golfers finished their round at 6pm. The golf aficionados took a quick drive to the “The London Pub” at the Mimosa Leisure Estate for the fun-filled Awarding Ceremony and Dinner. Thanks to the very supportive and gracious ladies, Rissa Golloso of PLDT Alpha and Nina Posadas of Meralco, who hosted the dinner and raffle prizes. The tourney could not have been possible without the support of our Hole Sponsors:

Bert Lina - Air 2100

Dennis Ibarra - Enfinity Philippines

Dingo Bonifacio - Remec Broadband

Jun Valerio - GMV Materials

Luis Harder – Wings Technology

Rudy Fulo - LGC Logistics

Tristan Dumlao - Linde Philippines

Further thanks go to Boy Castaneda, and Viboy Genuino & Ana Sabularse. Winners: OVERALL CHAMPION: Rudy Fulo CLASS A: Champion - Siegfried Ramos Runner-up - Victor Rachel CLASS B: Champion - Ferdie Barcenio Runner-up - Eaton Ong CLASS C: Champion - Alex dela Cruz Runner-up - Marvin Jovero GUEST: Champion - Dante Briones FUN HOLES: Longest Drive - Dennis Ibarra Nearest to the Pin - Marcel Thenu

Some golf aficionados during the golf fellowship

The SEIPI Golfers

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Bagging the trophies were: Overall Champion Abe Avena, Cross-Link Electric Class A Champion Fernando Pizarro, Cross-Link Electric Runner Up Dennis Roque, Globe Business Class B Champion Joey Palma, GCSS, Inc. Runner Up Francisco Ferrer, PEZA/EMS Class C Champion Mel Adriano, American Resources Runner Up Marvin Jovero, MERALCO Guest Division Champion Camilo Fernandez, Elitech Runner Up Novel Lee, Elitech Ladies Division Vivian Mawis, Romma Electronics Fun Holes: Nearest to the Pin Dennis Ibarra, Enfinity Longest Drive Raul Montealto, Cross-Link Electric Most Accurate Drive Hector Ivan Chan, M2 Fabrication

Hole sponsors who generously made it a success were:

1. Dennis Ibarra, Enfinity Philippines 2. Dingo Bonifacio, Remec Broadband 3. Luis Harder, Wings Technology 4. Tristan Dumlao, Linde Philippines 5. Freddie Pacho, Pricon Microelectronics

A big thank you for your continued support and for your generosity!

The rescheduled golf fellowship finally pushed thru last 22 November 2012 at the Tagaytay Midlands.

“Second Time Around”

@ Midlands

The SEIPI Golfers