Miraluz C. Tan, a Fellow in Supply Management, is currently a consultant and lecturer in the field of international purchasing and supply chain management (IPSCM). She is the Treasurer of the Foundation of the Society of Fellows in Supply Management. She was a former president of the Philippine Institute for Supply Management (PISM) and is a certified MLS (Modular Learning System) Trainer of the International Trade Center/ WTO UNCTAD based in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a member of ITC’s international and regional (Asia) committees. She is one of the trainers/facilitators of Ateneo Graduate School for Continuing Education for MLS.
Mira worked as Supply Management Head of Bayan Telecommunications, Inc., Vice-President for COE- Operations (Center of Excellence) for the Asian Institute for Medical Simulation (AIMS) Corporation. She was Associate Professor V at the University of Makati and Facilitator at the De La Salle University, College of St. Benilde. Mira has more than 20 years of corporate experience, the greater part of it as Asst. Vice President- Corporate Purchasing of Nestle Philippines, Inc. She also worked as Product Specialist and ASEAN coordinator for Cereal Partners Worldwide – Asia and was seconded to Goya, Inc. as Logistics Manager during her stint with Nestle. She has traveled and attended numerous local, regional, and international conferences in Switzerland, Australia, China, Cambodia, Egypt, Singapore and Malaysia. She was invited as a speaker on E-Procurement in the China International Logistics Summit in Beijing China including discussions on urban logistics for the 2008 Olympics.
Mira was chosen as scholar and trainee to the Management Program for Logistics Management held in Japan by the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarships (AOTS) in February-March 2005.
She graduated B.S. Chemical Engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology. She passed in 2002 the examination given by the Institute for Supply Management based in Tempe, Arizona for Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM). She was awarded “Superior Performance – Top 5 Students” in the Asian Institute of Management’s Basic Management Program.
