Tuesday, September 8, 2015

APW382 - Global Supply Chain Management (Session 2015/2016)


Course Outline (Updated 23th December 2015)

Group Assignment Guideline

 

*Student Coursework Marks (40%) (23th December 2015) !!!


ANNOUNCEMENT!!
Group 1: Lok Li Ying, Lee Piek Xian, Leong Xiu Choong, Ooi Yuh Lin, Tricia Leong Pui San


 Group 2: Chooi Weng Yan, Chin Xin Yan, Cheah Pei Chyi, Lok Seow Jing, Rogini A/P Gopalkrishnan


Group 3: Agung Pratama Andara, Nurul Komara, Rafa Najiya, Sherra Rizka R, Zul Asmi Retno A.

Group 4: Anira Bt Rosli, Hartikah Suziana Bt Abdollah, Liu Gengrong, Mohammad Asri B Hassan, Nur Fatina Bt Bachok, Sun Xiaoyuan

Group 5: Cheah Hui Ping, Cheong Yee Wean, Chin Lee Yee, Kong Wei Hang, Leow Pei Sze, Pu Hwa Mei

Group 6: Akyes Dapilca, Karunia Apriliyani, Raihan Hafidh Dirgantara Widodo, Reynaldi Ahmad Juliawan, Zakiyah Ulfah

Group 7: Chee Ghee Chung, Ng Shy Keok, Sor Wei Sheng, Teoh Chang Ming, Voon Lee Teng



THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.  

 

Please download the following notes for class.
  • Week 1 [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2]
  • Week 2 [Chapter 3]
  • Week 3 [Chapter 5] [tutorial]
  • Week 4 [Chapter 6] 
  • Week 5 [Chapter 7] [tutorial] [answer]
  • Week 6 [Chapter 9] 
  • Week 7 [Chapter 11] [tutorial] [answer]
  • Week 8 [Chapter 12]
  • Week 9 [Midterm exam]
  • Week 10 [Midterm break]
  • Week 11 [Chapter 13] [tutorial] [answer]
  • Week 12 [Chapter 14] [tutorial] [answer]
  • Week 13 [Chapter 15] [tutorial] [answer]
  • Week 14 [Chapter 16] [tutorial] [answer]
  • Week 15 Case Study - GSCM (Sustainable Issues)
  • Week 16 [Revision week] [Coursework Marks]
  • Week 17 [Final exam]

Global Supply Chain Management - E&E in Malaysia


A US-funded study has found that at least 28 per cent of workers in a sample of 501 workers in the Malaysian electronics industry “were found to be in situations of forced labour”. Is this the type of investment we want?


The retention of workers’ passports is a major issue. So too the deduction of foreign workers’ levies (payable by the employers) from the workers’ salaries. And the use of outsourced labour provided by external contractors which leaves workers even more vulnerable.

Miti must act ASAP to ensure the survival of Electrical and Electronic Industry in Malaysia

In 2012, US Labour Department funded a global NGO called Verite to conduct a study whether forced labour exists in Malaysia. In September 2014, Verite published a report called “Forced Labour in the Production of Electronic Goods in Malaysia”.

In the report, Verite interviewed 501 male and female workers across all major producing regions, electronic products and foreign nationalities. They found about 28% of workers to be in situation of forced labour. The issues they highlighted were:
  1. Recruitment fee charging and indebtedness compelled workers to work.
  2. Deceptive recruitment
  3. Passport retention, constrained in freedom of movement.
  4. Poor living conditions, in housing provided by employers or third party employment agents.
  5. Foreign workers difficult to leave before the end of their work contracts.
This report will be key to US Government’s decision on “International ranking on Forced Labour”. From information provided to me, US labour department will put Malaysia on watch list by 1st December 2014 (less than 2 weeks time). If US Government ranks Malaysia unfavourably, it has potential damning implications for the E&E sector in Malaysia. Some of the implications might be:
  1. US companies maybe prohibited to do business with Malaysian Manufacturers.
  2. Shrinking of future FDIs into Malaysia
  3. E & E export products to US-Europe market affected where labour practice compliance is required.
In short, this is the single biggest threat to the survival of E & E sector in Malaysia.

In the last several years, Malaysia’s agriculture industry had suffered 2 major bans by EU and China. In 2008, EU banned Malaysian Seafood and live fish export that did not meet EU standards. In 2011, China banned Malaysian bird’s nest after failing to comply with China’s permissible nitrite level. Billions of ringgit lost and both industries have not recovered fully since the ban.

We cannot afford to have Malaysian E&E sector placed on watchlist by US authority, because E&E is the largest sector in total export of Malaysia. In 2013, RM236.8 billion export are E&E product, equivalent of 32.9% of total export of Malaysia. E&E currently employs millions of Malaysian including massive downstream industries. It is the major FDI attraction into Malaysia and Penang particularly. Penang now hosts major E&E global companies such as Intel, Western Digital, AMD, Dell, Osram, Motorolla, Agilent Technologies, National Instruments and etc.

Not everything reported in Verite report is entirely true. Malaysia in fact has comprehensive laws and regulations to protect workers, irrespective of whether local or foreign, such as below:
  1. Employment Act 1955
  2. Workmen’s Compensation Act 1952 (Act 273)
  3. Occupational Safety and Health 1994
  4. National Wages Consultative Council Bill 2011 (Act 732)
  5. Factories and Machinery Act 1967 (Act 139)
  6. Passport Act 1966 (Act 150)
  7. Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007
The Electronic Industry also self regulate themselves by creating Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC code) that provides guidelines on social, environment and ethical aspects to the global electronics supply chain. This is to ensure basic working condition for individuals.

In Penang, where most of the E&E companies are located, sample surveys by InvestPenang showed that 4 out of 5 companies are already EICC compliance. EICC imposed higher standards in terms of recruitment process, living conditions, safekeeping of passport and breaking of contract.

However, these improvements are not properly communicated by MITI to US Labour Department. The US embassy has alerted MITI as well as other stakeholders as early as October. However, no feedbacks were presented to counter Verite report by December 1st deadline. That could result into one-sided decision by US Labor Department. The incompetency will make the largest economic sector suffer tremendously, same fate like Seafood blacklisting by EU and bird’s nest ban by China.
MITI must to immediately respond to this urgent issue. They must immediately do the following suggestions:
  1. Respond to US Labor Department to counter the issues raised by Verite Report.
  2. Work with American Chambers of Commerce (AMCHAM) to produce counter report.
  3. Strictly enforce existing laws to clean up irresponsible parties.
  4. Assemble all stakeholders including E&E chieftains and labour representatives for emergency meeting to find solutions.
  5. Commit to best practices of labour standards.
  6. Reduce foreign labour dependency and prioritize local workers
  7. Allow E&E sector to set up labour unions to improve workers conditions.

Source: Ghost Sim T. T.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Don't QUIT..


Ramai orang yang melihat kejayaan seseorang setelah dia mencapai kejayaan tersebut.. akan tetapi sebenarnya jarang yang melihat usaha, keperitan & susah payah untuk mencapai kejayaan. Ia tidak semudah seperti yang kita fikirkan.

Dengan skill dan pengetahuan barulah kita boleh mencapai semua ini. Sebenarnya semua skill dan pengetahuan tidak hanya datang begitu sahaja. Ia perlukan latihan berterusan. Kita hidup hanya sekali, lakukan yang terbaik dalam apa yang kita lakukan setiap hari jika kita ingin berjaya. Kejayaan yang datang dengan usaha yang gigih amat bermakna untuk dirai dan dinikmati.. Insya Allah

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Alhamdulillah, Paper diterima di AJBM

Alhamdulillah, rezeki tahun 2015. salah satu paper PhD saya diterima untuk diterbitkan di Asian Journal of Business and Management. Boleh dimuat turun melalui link di bawah:

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Alhamdulillah, Publication Notification from SICSSAM

Alhamdulillah, walaupun bukan rezeki untuk pergi ke Seoul, Korea awal bulan ni, paper saya terpilih untuk diterbitkan di dua jurnal: Asian Journal of Business and Management atau Universal Journal of Management. Insya Allah, ini adalah permulaan langkah kanan pada saya untuk tahun 2015..
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