WHEREAS, the Production and Operations Management Association of the Philippines (PROMAP), a non-partisan and non-stock organization, was established to promote industrial development through better and more efficient management of production systems;

WHEREAS, PROMAP will be holding its 24th National Convention on 8 to 9 September 2011;

WHEREAS, there is a need to focus national attention on the important role production and operations practitioners play in the development of the economy, as well as in the manufacturing sector.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the period of 5 to 9 September 2011 as œProduction and Operations Management Week,  under the auspices of the Production and Operations Management of the Philippines.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eleven.

	(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III
By authority of the President:
(Sgd.) PAQUITO N. OCHOA JR.
Executive Secretary