How PMI Helps Executives

How do subscribers and readers of PMI make use of the economic foresight presented in the PMI each month?

Our researchers are put to task by subscribers and readers when ever they miss receiving the reports on the expected release date. There are many reasons why the report does not get to the subscribers and readers on time. These include changed email address, internal email filters, and lapsed subscription.

This keen interest on the PMI made the editorial team take a close look at how subscribers and readers make use of the PMI -- month after month. Each month, our research team asks respondents how they have used the PMI.

The chart above shows how PMI subscribers and readers make use of the PMI. Three-fourths (75%) of subscribers and readers use the PMI as a management reference. Close to one-fifth (17%) use the PMI for decision. Interestingly, this percentage has been growing month after month. Those who indicated that they have not used the PMI are actually new subscribers and readers and have yet to see the report.

(The Purchasing Managers' Index Philippines is published by The Asian Centre for Enterprise Development with the permission of the Philippine Institute for Supply Management and its advocacy arm Foundation for the Society of Fellows in Supply Management. For comments, email the editorial team to abfontanilla@yahoo.com)