Designed to be a one-of-a-kind training experience, this course on Material Cataloguing, Specifications & Storage Planning offers valuable guidance to participants in developing the necessary skills and expertise. The primary objective is to equip delegates with the knowledge and capability to establish and sustain a comprehensive catalog of materials and products. This catalog serves as a crucial resource supporting various business and operational functions, encompassing activities related to operations, maintenance, and overall support.

Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:

· To review, analyze and classify the stock (inventory) line items for its adequacy and completeness of specification, catalogue 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 catalogue

· To understand how to develop unique product/catalogue identification code/part identifications for all products and services in line with International accepted cataloguing system and procedure to ensure technical and commercial integrity of the product and equipment

· Ability to use Configuration Management Systems

Who Should Attend?

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

Course Outlines:

Essentials of Material Cataloguing, Specifications & Storage Planning
To review materials catalogue to ensure it is in the specified templates/format
Configuration Management System
Technical Integrity of the Materials Cataloguing & Storage Planning
Change Management System dealing with a change request
Review, monitor and follow up the updates of incoming change request proposal and non- compliance records
How to ensure completeness of equipment and materials data in the Materials Management System
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.
Enhancing Materials Catalogue Management and Optimum Storage Planning
How to deal with Obsolete and Substitute Offers
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

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