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Mr. Laurent Levan, president and general director of URC Vietnam at Hanoi Innovation Summit 2019. As a leading food and beverage player with a growing multinational presence through the ASEAN, China and Oceania regions, Universal Robina Corporation has created a culture of innovation focusing on a digital shift to remain open and adaptive to global trends towards sustainable development. The food and beverage industry has seen growth in recent years by realising and adapting to continuous change in consumer demands. Consumers’ preferences are clearly shifting, and food and beverage brands must evolve with them – and companies where innovation comes from a genuine desire to improve customer experience are becoming the cream of the crop. “Innovation, then and now, has been our key value driver,” Laurent Levan, president and general director of URC Vietnam, highlighted at recent start-up forum in Ho Chi Minh City. “URC is a big company that employs thousands … [Read more...] about URC Vietnam promoting a culture of innovation

Enterprise application software provider SAP has announced agreements with a number of partners worldwide that will use the applications to develop their business.– VNS Photo Enterprise application software provider SAP has announced agreements with a number of partners worldwide that will use the applications to develop their business. Accordingly, SingEx Holdings will use SAP S/4HANA cloud to help drive the transformation of its global finance operations as the company continues to grow across international markets. This software solution will help SingEx build a robust global finance system that will support its expansion into China, UK, India and Southeast Asia. In another development, Standard Chartered Bank and SAP Ariba announced a strategic collaboration to make the bank’s financial supply chain solutions easily accessible to businesses in the Asia Pacific region through the Ariba network, a large digital business network connecting more than 4.2 million companies … [Read more...] about SAP provides software solutions to partners worldwide

The Ministry of Finance builds a draft of the scheme on management of e-commerce activities to ensure the State's comprehensive management for this field. — Photo tuyenquang.gov.vn The Ministry of Finance is building a draft scheme on the management of e-commerce activities for imports and exports. The draft aims to improve State agencies’ efficiency in control of e-commerce activities to stop tax evasion, violations of regulations on commodities, intellectual property and origin, and transporting banned goods to Viet Nam and vice versa. It also offers solutions to develop Viet Nam’s e-commerce activities, such as simplifying customs and specialised inspection procedures, aiming to protect the interests of manufacturers, traders and consumers. However, due to limited human resources, time and funding, the draft focuses on solutions to control and facilitate trading on e-commerce trading floors or websites. The project does not cover sales on applications such as Zalo … [Read more...] about Viet Nam to enhance management of e-commerce activities

According to a report by Google and Temasek, the size of the Vietnamese e-commerce market will increase by 5.3 times in the next seven years from US$2.8 billion in 2018 to $15 billion in 2025. — Photo baomoi.com As the Vietnamese e-commerce market booms, businesses still face many challenges to stay afloat. This statement was made by Matthew Heller, director at Google-Channel Sales South East Asia and India, at the "E-commerce Day 2019" seminar organised by Novaon Internet Corporation and Google, attracting more than 400 e-commerce businesses in the northern region. According to a report by Google and Temasek, the size of the Vietnamese e-commerce market will increase by 5.3 times in the next seven years from US$2.8 billion in 2018 to $15 billion in 2025. Speaking at the event, Matthew Heller said e-commerce has been growing at a dizzying rate of more than 43 per cent per year. The proportion of e-commerce revenue in the entire retail channel will increase from 3 per cent in … [Read more...] about Firms face challenges as e-commerce booms

The system reflects spam messages and receives advertising messages is built and operated by MIC. — Photo anninhthudo.vn All organisations and individuals will have the right to refuse spam calls and messages to their phone numbers if a new draft decree is passed. The draft decree on combating spam messages, spam emails, spam calls and regulations on advertising has been issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC). The draft specifies measures to tackle the issue, including building and implementing spam prevention systems; monitoring and sharing information on sources of spam messages; and monitoring the activities of advertising services. Some other solutions include preventing and revoking electronic addresses to distribute spam messages, strengthening domestic and international co-ordination and raising awareness on spam message prevention. Per the draft, advertisers will also have to send a copy of each text message they send out to prospective customers … [Read more...] about MIC tackles spam messages