Procurement & Supply Chain · 5 Days · Public · Al-Khobraa certified · From USD 3,900
Overview
This 5-day course covers practical considerations essential to achieve major improvements in planning, buying, storing and disposing of the vast array of materials and spare parts needed in the oil and gas industry. Evolving best practices by major oil and gas companies are explored as three inter-related modules for inventory management, warehousing, and investment recovery.
Learning Objectives
Apply the latest techniques in material cataloging and determine the various specifications of engineering materials including bearings, belts, couplings, gaskets, seals, chains, sprockets, valves, pipelines, piping, fittings, flanges, bolts, nuts, and blinds
Identify the various specifications of metallic and non-metallic materials including iron, steel, alloys, copper, aluminum, plastics, rubbers, ceramics, glasses, and composite materials
List spare parts and manage inventory and stores in a professional manner.
To review, analyze and classify the stock (inventory) line items for its adequacy and completeness of specification, catalog group, validity, compliance and its linkage of the user’s requirement.
Know how to gather and assemble data of non-stock materials (direct purchase materials) from various user divisions/departments
Able to classify and assign appropriate product group and to integrate with master product catalog
To understand how to develop unique product/catalog identification code/part identifications for all products and services in line with International accepted cataloging system and procedure to ensure technical and commercial integrity of the product and equipment
Ability to use Configuration Management Systems
To appraise standard technical specification, acceptable quality standards and in compliance with global Health, Safety, Environment and Quality Management systems
Know how to assign storage and handling procedure based on the manufacturer’s guidelines
Implement your new knowledge and skills of material cataloging in your CMMS and go back to your workplace with confidence
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for maintenance, materials, and project personnel such as project managers, maintenance managers, material managers, material engineers project engineers, plant engineers, maintenance engineers, material officers, senior buyers, purchasing managers, storeroom managers, storekeepers, CMMS professionals, maintenance planners, maintenance supervisors, IT professionals, operations managers, and manufacturing managers.
Any Professionals from the Procurement and Purchasing Department / Team
Cataloguing Engineers
Materials Engineers
Configuration Professionals / Engineers / Specialists
Material Planners / Equipment and Storage Specialists
Requirements Specialists / Executives
Material Planners / Equipment and Storage Specialists
Requirements Specialists / Executives
Course Outline
Day 1 — Essentials of Material Cataloguing, Specifications & Storage Planning
What is a Material Catalogue?
The Process for Creating a ‘Catalogue’
Deciding what to catalogue
How to catalogue materials
Day 2 — Technical Integrity of the Materials Cataloguing & Storage Planning
Catalogue Coding Standards
Maintaining the Materials Catalogue
Reviewing materials catalogue to ensure it is in the specified templates/format
Configuration Management Issues, Problems and Challenges and how to rectify
Day 3 — Commercial Integrity of the Materials Cataloguing & Storage Planning
Payment approval process – Supervision and checks of suppliers/vendors invoices
Commercial Configuration process to improve interchangeability and deliverability
The physical verification process, onsite visits in coordination with Inventory Control, Warehouse Operations and User’s requirements.
Dealing with replicated and duplicated items
Day 4 — Enhancing Materials Catalogue Management and Optimum Storage Planning
How to deal with Obsolete and Substitute Offers
Coordinating the collection of relevant data, service, location details, part list and drawing of Obsolete Equipment and Parts
Potential Issues, Problems and Challenges of Obsolete and Substitute Materials and Equipment
Gaining acceptance of substitute materials specifications for the introduction of new products
Day 5 — Materials & Storage Standards and Specifications
Alternative Specification and Alternative Sources with acceptable material specification
Multisource approaches to reduce monopoly by the single-source supplier (achieving economies of scale)
Coordination with end-users, technical departments and manufacturers to facilitate in identifying all hazardous substances
Modification of buying description to comply with the relevant safety standards, clauses and codes of practices in accordance with the International Safety Regulations (IMDG, SOLAS, DOT)
Accreditation
Al-Khobraa certified. On completion delegates receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of achievement.
What do Al-Khobraa procurement and supply chain courses cover?
The portfolio covers strategic sourcing and category management, tendering and supplier evaluation, contract and supplier performance management, negotiation, logistics, warehousing and inventory control — alongside preparation for CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply) qualifications, the global benchmark for the profession.
Who should attend a procurement and supply chain course?
These courses suit procurement and purchasing officers, category and sourcing managers, contract administrators, warehouse and inventory supervisors, logistics and materials planners, and finance or engineering staff who raise and evaluate tenders. No prior CIPS study is assumed.
How long are procurement and supply chain courses, and where are they held?
Most Al-Khobraa procurement and supply chain courses run over 5 days. The exact duration, dates and city for this course are listed in the dates section on this page. Public sessions run across Saudi Arabia — Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Yanbu — as well as regional and international venues, with live virtual classrooms available on request.
What certificate will I receive?
Delegates who complete the course receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of completion, issued by a Saudi-registered training provider. Al-Khobraa also delivers internationally accredited programmes; where a course carries an external awarding body such as PMI, CIPS, ILM or IOSH, that body is named on the course's own page.
Can procurement and supply chain training be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. Any Al-Khobraa procurement and supply chain course can be delivered in-house at your own premises anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with the content, dates and language of delivery tailored to your team. Al-Khobraa is an approved HRDF (Hadaf) provider, so eligible Saudi employers can seek training support. Contact us for a quotation.