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THREE weeks ago, I ordered P2,000 worth of products from an online store where products sold are from various merchants in different parts of the country. In the past three weeks, deliveries were made and saw that there were several instances where the things that arrived were more than what I ordered or not the brand I asked for. This is a challenge that entrepreneurs have when thinking of putting up a portal that will sell products from various sources and where the deliveries will have to be made by the supplier themselves. If coordination is not made in a documented manner, it can result in errors. Customers asking to return and correct their orders would mean additional costs, as it is not the customer’s fault if wrong deliveries were made and misunderstandings occured on how an item should be delivered in terms of quantity and other concerns. When putting up an e-commerce site, an online store owner must build a front and back-end that should be ready to scale to accommodate 10, 100 or 1,000 orders a day. Such figures are no longer impossible, as there are several local e-commerce providers already processing that volume. Coordinate with suppliers to find out how much can they deliver to you in a month before going full blast in your marketing efforts for a product. If they are only capable of selling 50 items and you sold 100, that is half of your marketing spend that could have been used on other Read More …

Justice Secretary Leila De Lima on Tuesday expressed optimism that the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front would come to a common position as regards MILF members who would be found responsible for the deaths in Mamasapano incident. De Lima made the remark after a meeting with MILF chair Al Haj Murad, who reiterated that the peace process didn’t provide for the surrender of MILF members that figured in the “misencounter” that resulted in the deaths of 44 police commandos, 18 MILF fighters and five civilians. “We can reconcile. I think there is a way of marrying both positions, but I’m adding to that, without prejudice also to the application of the penal processes,” De Lima told reporters. Murad said the results of the MILF investigation would be ready “by next week.” “Meron lang mga gaps na hindi pa masyadong clear,” Murad told reporters. —NB, GMA News

Relatives and supporters of the SAF 44, members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) who were killed during the Mamasapano clash, march along EDSA on Sunday. The march turned out to be a solemn memorial honoring the troopers who died on January 25. (MNS photo) MANILA, Mar 9 (Mabuhay) – The head of the police board that investigated the January 25 Mamasapano incident admitted Monday that the bulk of evidence they had to scrutinize – contained in four large suitcases – made it difficult for them to meet their March 9 deadline. In a press conference, Director Benjamin Magalong, the Philippine National Police-Board of Inquiry (PNP-BOI) said they asked PNP officer-in-charge Leonardo Espina to give them another three days to finish their report. “We cannot sacrifice the quality of our report. Kaya kaninang umaga, tuwag ako kay General Espina at nakiusap ako na kung pwede bigyan kami ng three days pa para matapos ang report. Tatlong araw lang po ang hinihingi namin at by Thursday kaya na namin itong isusumite sa kanya,” Magalong said. Magalong said the delay was due to the bulk of evidence that the BOI’s Operational Audit Team (OAT) needed to scrutinize. Magalong pointed out that the OAT only managed to finish its report and submit it to his office last Friday, instead of its original deadline of February 27. “Ang pinakamalaking trabaho po ay ginawa ng Operational Audit Team. The OAT was supposed to submit their results last February 27 kaya lang po sa Read More …