Issue 2, 2008
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DTTNCo and Citi Provide Community e-Platform to SMEs to Facilitate Digital Supply Chain Payment  The continuing appreciation of the RMB against the US dollar and the related speculations has been important driving forces to Hong Kong's financial markets and economic activities. The appreciation of the RMB brings a negative impact to Hong Kong manufacturers who engage in labor intensive processing trade with low gross margins such as clothing, electronics and toys, etc.
To help manufacturers understand how to make use of treasury tools to mitigate risks and deal with expensive operating environment. Digital Trade and Transportation Network Limited (DTTNCo) jointly hosted a seminar with Citi under the topic "Financial Management under RMB Appreciation and Information Technology" on 4 June 2008. In the seminar, representatives of DTTN and Citi had also demonstrated the powerful features of the integrated solution on e-banking service and electronic document exchange to the audiences. Through the cooperation between Citi and DTTNCo, Citi customers can streamline their payment instruction process through the use of DTTN e-platform and CitiDirect Online Banking.  |
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Seminar on Strengthening Supply Chain Collaboration to Enhance SMEs' Competitiveness  Market demand has become unstable because of the slowdown of the global economy. The rising logistics and operating costs have further made the business environment difficult. The pressure on SMEs is even more onerous as their orders in general cover goods in small quantity but in a great variety and with short delivery time.
To overcome these challenges, DTTNCo and Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) jointly organized a seminar on 11 June 2008 at Trade and Industry Department, Support and Consultation Centre for SMEs to demonstrate how the upstream and downstream enterprises of the supply chain to strengthen their co-ordination and communication and share information so as to improve the performance of the supply chain and enhance the overall efficiency and competitiveness. Ms. Margaret Lee, Senior Vice President of DTTNCo, had also shared successful cases to enhance the understanding toward supply chain collaboration. |
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Seminar with DTTN-enabled Partners |
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DTTNCo. Jointly Organized Workshop with The Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong  Changes in processing trade policies on the mainland, along with surging production and raw material costs, will pose big challenges for Hong Kong exporters and manufacturers. Hong Kong exporters and manufacturers must take note of the likely developments not only in the global market environment, but also the production environment on the mainland. In view of the changing processing trade policies and the rising production costs, Hong Kong's enterprises should strive to better manage their supply chains in order to maintain their competitiveness.
In regards to the impacts to Hong Kong's enterprises, the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong (CMA) and DTTNCo jointly organized a seminar to explain how Hong Kong's enterprises manage cross-border trading through supply chain and the advantages of the integration of supply chain, optimization of trade declaration and transportation process. |
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DTTNCo Customer Liaison Group Forum 2008 In order to have a better understanding of the business needs and expectation from our customers, DTTNCo has established a Customer Liaison Group (CLG) Forum on 25 July 2008.
Participating members included Mr. Walther Nahr, Chairman of Hongkong Association of Freight Forwarding and Logistics Ltd, Mr. Lawrence Ying, Assistant General Manager Airfreight - Export Division, Simon Leung, Director and Ms. Rebecca Yeung, Supervisor GISS - Organization & Methods Division of Leo Paper Group (Hong Kong) Ltd. During the meeting, members actively contributed comments on the quality and application of the services provided by DTTNCo, and their suggestions are definitely valuable to the future development of DTTNCo. |
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Successful Story - DTTN Helps Exporters to Simplify Process for Handling Documents and Enhance Operational Efficiency In the fast-moving commercial world, human errors are unavoidable if we handle documents manually. This is especially true for export manufacturers who need to handle a large number of documents everyday. Coincidentally, Billabong Enterprises Co Ltd and Alison & Son have deployed DTTN to increase its operational efficiency, accuracy and streamline manpower resources via automation.
Friendly Application - No Major Change for Operation In order to eliminate unnecessary paper work, Billabong has adopted the DTTN electronic platform. As Billabong's TOGO Web-based ERP system is DTTN-enabled, it is not necessary to provide re-training for Billabong's staff or install additional applications to its system. DTTN can extract data from the ERP system and export shipping orders to forwarders directly. Rosemary Chiu from Billabong says, "we want to reduce labour costs. It's great to have more procedures go automated. As we are short on manpower, we have chosen to use DTTN for shipping procedures." Rosemary asserted that the company's work process has become more efficient after the implementation of DTTN. She says, "DTTN definitely facilitates us an effective and efficient communications with the forwarders." Simple Connection with Data-inheritance Function Similarly, Alison & Son, a luxury leather manufacturer who needs to handle various documents everyday also employs DTTN for precision and accuracy. In order to save time, Alison & Son directly sends documents to their forwarders via DTTN. Jolas Chan, Shipping Officer of Alison & Son says, "DTTN is just like a central processing platform to all of our systems. It enables us to connect with our trading partners effectively and its one-stop process makes data transmission much faster and easier. DTTN's performance exceeds our expectations and it is greatly appreciated by our colleagues." |
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DTTN Excel Form User Special Promotion From now until 30 September 2008, customers who reach a designated amount of documents sending to business partner(s) via DTTN can enjoy "Double Rewards" and enter to a Lucky Draw to win a HP Desktop PC (with HP LCD monitor) worth over HK$5,000. Act Now! |
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If you are interested to join the activities above, please email your contact details (including company name, contact name, title, phone number, fax number and email address) to event@marketing.hk-dttn.com quoting the captioned event date and topic. |
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DTTN
Customers Update We're glad to inform you that the following customers are connected to the DTTN and have started to exchange documents with their trading partners:
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Digital Trade and Transportation Network Limited 11/F & 12/F., Tower B, Regent Centre, 63 Wo Yi Hop Road, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2599 1770 Fax: (852) 2610 2325 E-mail: info@hk-dttn.com Digital Trade and Transportation Network Limited ("DTTNCo") offers a free newsletter by email to customers who are interested in keeping in touch with the latest development in e-commerce on a regular basis. Please click here if you have not yet subscribed personal copy of the newsletter. However, if you do not wish to receive DTTNCo's e-newsletter in the future, please send an e-mail to news@marketing.hk-dttn.com marking "unsubscribe" in the subject. To learn more about DTTNCo, please visit our corporate website at www.hk-dttn.com.  Copyright @ 2008 Digital
Trade and Transportation Network Limited. All rights reserved. |
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Committed to providing an open electronic document exchange platform to different corporations and SMEs, DTTN participated in several seminars with DTTN-enabled partners in order to further boost up the awareness and exposure of DTTN-enabled solution to the market.
