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The Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management ( SIPMM) is a not-for-profit, independent professional organisation founded in 1972 [4] with the aim to enhance managerial effectiveness of professionals in purchasing, logistics, materials and supply chain management. The mission of SIPMM is to lead professional competence in ...
ISM's Purchasing Managers Index 1948–2012. Purchasing managers' indexes (PMI) are economic indicators derived from monthly surveys of private sector companies.. The three principal producers of PMIs are the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), which originated the manufacturing and non-manufacturing metrics produced for the United States, the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials ...
The Straits Times Index ( abbreviation: STI) is a capitalisation-weighted measurement stock market index that is regarded as the benchmark index for the stock market in Singapore. It tracks the performance of the top 30 companies that are listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The STI is jointly calculated by the SGX, the SPH Media Trust and ...
The growth was caused by higher factory output, new orders, and new exports. The March reading of Singapore Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose 0.3 point from the previous month to record a ...
The Dow plunged by more than 600 points, notching its worst day of the year so far, on Thursday after the Purchasing Managers Index for May, expected to fall slightly, came in 3.5 percentage ...
Philip Poh. Philip Poh is a professor that developed the Singapore Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) in 1998. [3] After a successful pilot survey, the Singapore PMI was launched in January 1999 and the index has become a barometer of the Singapore manufacturing economy. In 2002, government officials in China sought the advice of Professor Poh to ...
Today is a Singaporean news website owned by Mediacorp. It was originally established in 2000 as a free newspaper , competing primarily with Singapore Press Holdings ' Streats . In 2004, SPH took a 40% stake in MediaCorp's publishing division and Today , discontinuing Streats in the process.
Singapore is ranked first worldwide for the ease of doing business by the World Bank for 2012, consecutively for 7 years. [5] Singapore is ranked the #1 most competitive country in the world. [6] Singapore is the 14th most expensive city in the world to spend a night in. [7] The Economist: Where-to-be-born Index 2013, ranked 6 out of 111 countries.