Suggested reads for SMEs: ‘How to be a supplier’ series

how to be a supplier

Available at the Bureau of Domestic Trade, Department of Trade and Industry (BDT-DTI) are informational materials that will help small businesses start their business, grow their markets, and improve operations.

“Paano maging supplier” series

This  is a series of booklets, written in the vernacular, on how small and medium enterprises can be a supplier to big institutional buyers like supermarkets, restaurant chains,  and department stores.

Each booklet contains basic guidelines and requirements of these institutional buyers of suppliers who seek to do business with them.

The series is composed of 10 volumes, namely:

  • How to sell to a supermarket
  • How to sell to an office and school supplies store
  • How to sell to a department store
  • How to sell to a hotel and resort
  • How to sell to government
  • How to sell to a fastfood and restaurant chain
  • How to be a subcontractor
  • Paano maging certified food supplier
  • Paano magbenta ng produkto o serbisyo?
  • Paano maging Halal certified food supplier?

 

Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue

The catalogue, in four volumes, showcases  a variety of indigenous raw materials used in manufacturing Philippine products.  It provides the scientific names of raw materials, their biological structures, economic uses, and places in the country where they can be found.  It also contain sa  list of raw material suppliers and contact information.

  • The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue:  Wearable, Gifts and Holiday Décor volume features a variety of indigenous raw materials used in wearable, gifts and holiday decors such as bamboo, bast fiber, climbing ferns, reeds, herbs, erect palms, climbing palms (rattan), sedges and rushes, screw pines (pandan), woody pines, leather, seashells, beads and components.
  • The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Furniture, Furnishings, and Loomweaving volume features raw materials used in the furniture, furnishings and loomweaving industries such as rushes, grasses, woody vines, screwpines, erect palms, bamboo, tree plantation species, fibers, fossilized/skeletonized leaves, and butterfly.
  • The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Beads, Carabao Horns and Bones, and Seashells volume features the uses of beads, carabao horns and bones, and seashells in manufacturing Philippine products.
  • The Philippine Raw Materials Catalogue: Manila Palm, Banana, Corn, Coconut, Fish Scale, Recycled, Tahong, Water Hyacinth, and Sabutan

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