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10 Important Singapore Government Agencies help you Grow Your Business
Singapore could be your investment destination since it’s located in the heart of Asia, with China and India as regional markets. It has a thriving trade and a robust financial sector, a pro-business environment, a …
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9 Reasons Why Singapore is great for Your Business
Improvements in global transportation and communications systems and shifting economic might on the global level is making it more important than ever to effectively join the global market. Instead of operating within a single nation …
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Grow Your Business in Singapore
Singapore Gateway to ASEAN and Asia Pacific
Singapore is among the few nations with whom virtually any economic power is happy to know and do business. The economically potent and very favorably located island nation is a member of several regional economic …
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How Enterprise Singapore helps you Grow Your Business
6 Ways Enterprise Singapore Can Help Your Business Thrive Enterprise Singapore (ESG) is a helpful government agency that makes your business grow and thrive. It gives full support to enterprises of all sizes and at …
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How Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Helps you Grow Your Business in Singapore
In this article, you learn how URA will help your business grow. We’ll cover the following critical issues:
* URA Oversees Development in Singapore, and What You Can Do with Your Property
* Changing the Use of Your Property
* URA’s Business Opportunities for Industrial and Commercial Enterprises
* URA Handbooks with Crucial Guidelines
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Grow Your Business in Singapore
How Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Helps you Grow Your Business in Singapore
In this article, you learn how URA will help your business grow. We’ll cover the following critical issues:
* URA Oversees Development in Singapore, and What You Can Do with Your Property
* Changing the Use of Your Property
* URA’s Business Opportunities for Industrial and Commercial Enterprises
* URA Handbooks with Crucial Guidelines
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How the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) Helps you Grow Your Business in Singapore
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in Singapore is a must-know agency since it’s one of the critical agencies that helps grow your business. Primarily responsible for all employee-related issues, MOM ensures that you understand workers’ …
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Introduction
Introduction The question this book sets out to answer is narrower and more practical than the one usually asked. It is not whether a European digital business should expand into Asia, a question too broad to be useful, but whether some particular function of that business belongs in Singapore. A regulated payment or financial-technology activity. A regional headquarters directing operations across Southeast Asia. A data-centre footprint. A data-driven operation handling significant volumes of …
Where Singapore Fits and Where It Does Not
2.1 Why This Chapter Comes Before the Detail A European industrialist deciding where to place a biomedical operation does not need to be told that Singapore is impressive. The figures are easy to find and the agencies publish them readily. What the industrialist needs, and what is harder to come by, is an honest account of which functions belong in Singapore and which do not. That account is the purpose of this chapter, and it comes before the chapters on tax, on regulation, on land, and on …
What Singapore Offers for Different Warehouse Use Cases
What Singapore Offers for Different Warehouse Use Cases 2.1 Use Case Determines Everything The first chapter argued that Singapore is a strong answer to a specific question and a poor answer to others. This chapter is where you find out which one you are holding.
The reason use case decides everything is that “warehousing” is not one activity. The work of holding bulk packaging materials for a regional assembly line has almost nothing in common with the work of storing …
The Research and Innovation Institutional Landscape
5.1 Introduction: Mapping a Dense Landscape The two earlier books in this series are decision guides. They help a European firm decide whether a function, whether a factory, a warehouse, or a regional distribution operation, belongs in Singapore. This book does that too. But in biomedical the institutions are not the backdrop to the decision; they are a large part of the decision itself, and a firm that does not understand them cannot evaluate Singapore properly. So this chapter does something …
Preface
Preface: Why This Book Exists I write this book from an unusual vantage point, and it is fairer to the reader to state it at the outset than to let it sit unspoken behind the analysis.
I am a commercial and industrial real estate professional licensed in Singapore, a principal mediator accredited with the Singapore Mediation Centre, where I have mediated for a decade, and a civil engineer by training. I have been a permanent resident of Singapore for more than twenty years. And I write here as a …
Warehouse Estate Geography for European Operations
Warehouse Estate Geography for European Operations 4.1 Warehouse Location Determines Operational Reality Two warehouses of identical specification, one beside Changi Airport and one in the far west of the island, are not interchangeable. The first can put a pharmaceutical shipment onto an aircraft within the hour; the second is positioned for sea freight through the consolidating Tuas port. Choose wrongly and you spend years paying — in road time, in lost speed, in the daily friction of being in …
Post-Establishment Operations, Disputes, and the Long-Term Singapore Logistics Presence
Post-Establishment Operations, Disputes, and the Long-Term Singapore Logistics Presence 9.1 The Warehouse Is Operational. What Now? The business has done the work. It chose the use case, structured the country decision, picked the estate, specified the building, arranged the customs and scheme treatment, addressed the specialised category, and signed the lease with the care the previous chapter urged. The warehouse is fitted out and operational. This chapter is about everything that comes after …
Clinical Trials, Research Operations, and Intellectual Property
Clinical Trials, Research Operations, and Intellectual Property 8.1 Introduction — Research and Clinical Activity in Singapore A European firm that places research, translational, or clinical activity in Asia is making a decision of a different kind from the one it makes when it places a manufacturing line or a distribution hub. Manufacturing and distribution are about cost, capacity, and logistics. Research and clinical activity are about people, data, institutions, and the protection of the …
The Infrastructure That Makes Singapore Work, and the Agency Behind It
3.1 Introduction: Infrastructure as Operational Foundation A European firm deciding where to place a regulated function, a regional headquarters, or a data-driven operation in Asia is, whether it frames the decision this way or not, making a bet on infrastructure. Not infrastructure in the brochure sense of fast internet and modern buildings, but infrastructure in the operational sense: the connectivity that determines latency to customers, the data-centre capacity that determines whether a …
Warehouse Specifications for European Operations
Warehouse Specifications for European Operations 5.1 Specifications Determine Operational Feasibility A European logistics manager who has run distribution centres in the Netherlands or the German Ruhr arrives in Singapore with a set of unspoken assumptions about what a warehouse is: single storey, generous ceiling, dock doors sized for the trailers the company already runs, floor strong enough for the racking already owned. Most of those assumptions are reasonable. A few of them are wrong in …
The Singapore Biomedical Geography
6.1 Introduction: Location Determines the Institutional Neighbourhood In most industrial sectors the location question is answered by a short list of practical inputs: distance to a port, the cost of power, the availability of a workforce, the price per square metre of suitable land. Those inputs matter in biomedical too, and this chapter gives them their due. But biomedical location carries a second freight that the general industrial chapters of Books 1 and 3 do not have to carry. Where a …
What Singapore Offers in Return
6.1 Introduction: Incentives Follow Substance European firms arrive in Singapore with a particular expectation about incentives, and it is almost always the wrong one. The expectation is that Singapore, competing for inbound investment, offers a menu of tax holidays and grants that a firm selects from on the way in, that the incentive is the inducement, granted to attract the firm, and that the activity follows.
The logic runs the other way. Singapore’s incentives reward firms that commit …
How Singapore Out-Thinks Its Size
Abstract This chapter sets out the institutional landscape behind Singapore’s research and artificial-intelligence agenda as it bears on a European research or applied-AI operation deciding whether to establish here. It describes the National AI Strategy and the governance bodies that direct it, the formally voluntary AI governance instruments that function as procurement benchmarks, the national research-funding architecture and the institutions that deploy it, the government’s role …
Running the Operation: Regulated Compliance, Disputes, and the Multi-Year Presence
Chapter 11. Running the Operation: Regulated Compliance, Disputes, and the Multi-Year Presence 11.1 Introduction: The Operation Is Running. What Now? By the time a European firm reaches this chapter in practice, the hard early work is done. The strategic case has been made, the use case chosen, the infrastructure and data-governance questions answered, the licence obtained where one is needed, the property secured, the team built, and the entity set up. The Singapore operation is running. The …
Singapore's Logistics Infrastructure
Singapore’s Logistics Infrastructure 3.1 Infrastructure as Operational Foundation The previous two chapters made claims that this one has to pay for. Singapore is reliable, they said; Singapore is built for high-value, regulated, control-sensitive logistics. Those claims rest on infrastructure — physical, institutional, and digital — and a European business committing to a multi-year presence is entitled to see the foundations before it builds.
This chapter is the foundations. It is, by …
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Welcome to Singapore
15 Surprising Ways New Zealand Business Thrives in Singapore As one of the world’s competitive economies, the Singapore ‘Lion City’ makes it easy for Kiwis or foreigners to set up a business with few restrictions.
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Introduction to Warehouse Safety in Singapore
Two forklifts align themselves at each end of a fully-loaded 30′ storage rack and slide their forks under. The idea is to “carefully” lift the rack and move it several feet. One forklift will drive forward while the second reverses at the same speed. Timing is critical.
The warehouse manager is on the scene to watch the successful movement of the rack. The forklift operators had never attempted such an undertaking before but are confident in their abilities. Can you guess how this will end?
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How Enterprise Singapore helps you Grow Your Business
6 Ways Enterprise Singapore Can Help Your Business Thrive Enterprise Singapore (ESG) is a helpful government agency that makes your business grow and thrive. It gives full support to enterprises of all sizes and at all development stages, including SMEs and large companies.
SMEs can get help with improving their capabilities through various grants and programs. They can also have access to technology and research institutes. ESG supports SMEs that expand overseas through grant funds, tax …
13 Ways Singapore is a Great Place for Americans To Grow a Business
Singapore Welcomes Americans and USA Advocacy says that the USA exported goods worth $27,08 billion to Singapore in 2020. Out of these exports, about 21% were computers and electronic products. Chemicals, transportation equipment, etc., came second. In addition, Singapore remains the top globally for ease of doing business, says the World Bank in its “Doing Business 2016 Report.” These brilliant stats show that U.S. companies should invest in Lion City because it offers more opportunities than …
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How to Rent Your Warehouses in Singapore
1. How to rent a Large Warehouse in Singapore This section discusses how to rent a warehouse that is 10,000 square feet or larger.
2. How to rent a Warehouse (Medium or Smaller) in Singapore This section discusses how to rent a warehouse that is less than 10,000 square feet in size.
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15 Surprising Ways New Zealand Business Thrives in Singapore
Welcome New Zealand and Kiwis to Singapore Would you like to grow and expand your business? New Zealand and Singapore – Kiwis and the Lion City go a long ways back together. Singapore is the Lion City of Asia, and that explains why it’s a powerhouse in the ASEAN region. Kiwis can invest and prosper their business in the Lion City for the following reasons:
* Singapore is a highly-developed economy.
* Enjoys an open and corrupt-free environment
* It’s an economy with stable prices.
* Singapore …
What is Warehouse Cross-Docking?
What is Warehouse Cross-Docking? How would you like to streamline your supply chain processes? Think about the space you could free up if you removed the storage portion of shipping and receiving. It’s called Cross-Docking. When products are unloaded into the warehouse, the team then sorts and redirects them to outbound trucks or rail.
It’s possible for a product to go straight from receiving to the back of another truck, pausing along the way to get a new label or stamp. No storage is required …
10 Important Singapore Government Agencies help you Grow Your Business
Singapore could be your investment destination since it’s located in the heart of Asia, with China and India as regional markets. It has a thriving trade and a robust financial sector, a pro-business environment, a skilled workforce, and advanced infrastructure. What more, its e-commerce market is around $5 B, presenting huge opportunities for investors. But how can you navigate the uncharted investment waters in Singapore? You need Singapore government agencies to help you throughout the whole …
How Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Helps you Grow Your Business in Singapore
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is one of the most critical agencies in Singapore and truly designed the Singapore of today. The agency is a powerful, far-reaching organization and deserves all the praise it gets. URA is the backbone of Singapore’s development. Its experts and consultative approach to development have seen the organization transforming Singapore into one of the thriving developed nations in the world.
In this article, you learn how URA will help your business grow. We’ll …
How the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) Helps you Grow Your Business in Singapore
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in Singapore is a must-know agency since it’s one of the critical agencies that helps grow your business. Primarily responsible for all employee-related issues, MOM ensures that you understand workers’ rights and yours, too, including your responsibilities as an employer. Furthermore, MOM makes it easy for international investors to hire skilled foreign staff to work with the local Singaporean workforce.
MOM is also responsible for Workplace and Health Regulations, …
What Are the Types of Warehouses in Singapore for Your Business?
Imagine finding the best warehouse for your products in Singapore and hitting the ground running. There you are in Singapore ready to ship your goods from your proper warehouse to your loyal buyers who are waiting for their regular deliveries. The good news is you can find the right warehouse in Singapore if you know the types of warehouses. In this article, you’ll learn about a wide range of warehouses and their uses to help you find a dynamic one for your business. Let’s get started.
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How to Design and Layout your Warehouse to improve efficiency and profits
Planning the Design and Layout of Your Warehouse Warehouses are designed to store and handle products for the company. With that said, efficiency needs to be taken into account. A warehouse is only as effective as it is efficient. A poorly designed warehouse will lead to lost productivity and lower profits.
Inventory management relies heavily on the ability to easily and quickly navigate the isles in your warehouse. If the layout is poorly planned, the simplest tasks will take longer to fulfill, …