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BIG DATA, SMART CITY BILL TO BAN CONSTRUCTION CHINA, Macau is very similar IN COLOANE VETOED - AGAIN LAND OF to Hong Kong “in terms For the third time, a Pereira OPPORTUNITY of building itself as a Coutinho proposal to better FOR THREE smart city,” say big data protect Coloane’s environment BLACK experts was rejected at the AL AMERICANS P4 P5 P10 TUE.22 Nov 2016 T. 22º/ 25º C H. 80/ 98% facebook.com/mdtimes + 11,000 MOP 7.50 2689 N.º HKD 9.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho www.macaudailytimes.com.mo “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS AP PHOTO Pro-austerity government P5 PHILIPPINE President to spend more next year Rodrigo Duterte decides to declare a lagoon in China- controlled waters to be a marine sanctuary where Filipinos and Chinese will be prohibited from fishing. More on p11 AP PHOTO HONG KONG’s leader said Chinese President Xi Jinping has affirmed his handling of a political dispute in the Chinese-ruled territory in which two recently elected legislators were barred from taking their seats. More on p11 INDONESIA Authorities said yesterday they believe a protest planned by Muslim hard-liners next month in the capital may be a guise for treason and are warning the organizers against holding the rally. The protest planned for Dec. 2 is to demand the arrest of Jakarta’s minority-Chinese governor who is being investigated for alleged blasphemy after he spoke about a passage in the Quran that prohibits Muslims from electing non-Muslims as leaders. MYANMAR Human Rights Watch says satellite images show 820 newly identified structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya MDT EXCLUSIVE | NORBERT RIEZLER Muslim villages in the Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state where the military is carrying Macau SMEs go global ‘with out counter-insurgency operations. P2-3 More on backpage Sands China expansion’ 22.11.2016 tue th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO Paulo Coutinho MDT INTERVIEW | NORBERT RIEZLER, LVS EET Norbert Riezler, an MAustrian-born American, in his 40s, who holds two key Macau is ‘our center of excellence for furniture buying globally’ positions in Las Vegas Sands’ management and strategy. His double-task is to make sure procurement here in Ma- set up the structure. We look the giant casino operator buys cau with SMEs and com- at [whether there is] a chance quality products and services at panies and the other places to standardize the product and the best price and operates with that you oversee, like Sin- service across all of our pro- minimal wastage both for the gapore or Vegas? perties. Are there economies company and Planet Earth. Norbert Riezler (NR) - The of scale that we can leverage by Along the way, he is to imple- differences are actually not that buying larger amounts? How ment policies globally in pro- much to be honest. We have a is the supply base structured? curement and sustainability global organization structure Are they global powerhouses for all companies of the LVS and our processes, our systems or are they regional or local galaxy that stretches from Ma- are pretty much exactly the same suppliers? Then, where do we cau to Singapore and the USA. around the globe. Our procure- have the center of expertise? The global approach to pro- ment organization is involved in We then decide how we set up curement, although, he admits all aspects of the operation. In the organization and how we requires local small and me- some companies, procurement structure the buying. For food dium suppliers to overcome is only involved in certain areas, buying, the tastes are very di- hurdles, has helped some to but for us the range of goods and fferent in each of the regions. grow exponentially. Such is the services we buy is wide. So from Suppliers are often a little bit case of an old and small office hiring designers and architects, smaller. So we have unique in- furniture factory in Areia Pre- from doing construction con- terfaces at each location or in ta. Ten years after partnering tracts, [and] once the operation other areas. A good [example] with Sands, the manufacturer is up and running, from gaming actually in Macau is for furni- is supplying LVS and compe- brings environment-friendly to IT to marketing procurement ture. The [Macau] supply base titors in Macau, Singapore, to the various labor services, has become very much a glo- practices inside-out, down the Vegas and elsewhere with its chain of suppliers – either by transportation needs, food and bal supply base. In Macau, we innovative line of casino furni- We were able example, training or policy re- beverage - it’s actually easy to have our center of excellence ture and accessories. It’s now a quirements. The sustainability describe: everything that you for furniture buying globally. global and large scale business, just to start chief trusts “there is hope” for see, somebody needs to buy. So So I have no furniture buying employing over 350 people. the planet, “if everybody con- from that aspect, it is the same for the organization in Singa- Riezler points out several with playing tributes,” and reveals there’s globally. pore. The team here in Macau other examples where the casi- card recycling, something more on the cards – we consider to be ‘best in class’ no operator helped SMEs grow recycling cards, to be precise. MDT - How do you apply in our company, to buy the fur- with the expansion of Sands which took us He was recently in Macau for the global strategy to Ma- niture, to work directly with China. SCL procurement from the annual meeting of procu- cau? the manufacturers and with local companies in 2015 stood quite a while to rement chiefs in Asia, when he NR - Globally the processes, the suppliers. at MOP14.2 billion, or roughly met with the Times for the in- the systems are virtually the 80 percent of total procure- figure out. terview. same. Now, the suppliers arou- MDT - You launched in ment - a 36 percent increa- nd the world are somewhat 2015 an initiative to help se over 2014. To August this billion, of which 1.2 billion was Macau Daily Times (MDT) different. We can have nume- the local supplier support year, purchases from Macau from SMEs. - How do you see the ma- rous filters that we look at in program with SMEs and companies stood at MOP9.8 What’s more, Norbert Riezler jor differences between the order for us to decide how we the Chamber of Commerce. What is your estimate for this year’s results? NR - Yes, we actually work facilities management, including the very closely in each location Growing with Sands maintenance and installation of air-con- with the local community and ditioning system, mechanical, electrical local suppliers. We realised that and plumbing (MEP), and automation there was an opportunity here in NE major example of a local SME me one of the biggest gaming furniture systems. Macau to work with the Cham- Othat went from “small” to “medium” suppliers in Macau. A significant propor- Established in 2010, Wa Toc became ber of Commerce. We were the and actually became a global player in tion of this growth has been attributed a supplier for Sands China in 2011. The first company that did so and the field of gaming furniture and acces- to their partnership with Sands. In 2005 company, which has currently a team I think since then some other sories is CMC Trading & Engineering Ltd their company started with eight mana- stationed at the Venetian Macao, started companies have followed suit. (formerly Yi Tak Furniture Plaza), which gers and 60 staff; currently over 25 peo- with eight employees and has now grown There are three different cate- was established in Macau in 1992. ple hold management positions and they to be a team of nearly a hundred. gories. The small and micro su- CMC has been a Sands China partner employ a staff of more than 350. Seventy percent of Wa Toc’s business ppliers, the ‘made in Macau’ and since 2005. They supply gaming related Moreover, this partnership with Sands comes from Sands China, growing from the third category is the ‘young products to all SCL properties, mainly has also lead them to develop their client MOP1 million in 2011 to around MOP20 entrepreneurs’. So while we al- gaming tables, gaming chairs, pit stands, base within Macau to other gaming com- million this year. ready have a lot sourced with card cabinets and various other casino panies. The company is also committed to de- Macau suppliers, we felt that accessories. CMC have started developing paten- veloping local university students. There we needed to give additional In 2014, they received the Sands Su- ts on some of their products developed are 30 local university graduates in the suppliers a chance. Since the in- pplier Excellence awards under the SME together with Sands, which now helps team and over 70 employees are local re- ception of the program, we have category and, according to Sands China, them to reach international markets in sidents. added about 85 new additional “have shared with us how that recogni- countries such as the U.S., Australia, Phi- Since the start of cooperation with suppliers and I think every mon- tion has influenced their business and lippines, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Russia Sands China, Wa Toc has grown in both th we are adding some more. So also their management concepts.” and also Saipan. team size and business scale and has had by the year end, I would expect CMC started as home and office furni- Another example comes from Wa Toc opportunities to work with the industry the number to be over 100 addi- ture business and has developed to beco- Engineering company specializing in giants such as Honeywell and Siemens.