In heavy industries such as oil, gas, mining and utilities, materials routinely make up more than half of a capital project's total spend, yet they remain one of the most overlooked elements of project planning. That oversight is exactly why so many capital expenditure projects run late. This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy tackles the problem head-on, focusing on how material management is integrated into the project plan, from planning and preliminary design through procurement, vendor monitoring, construction and final liquidation.

Because material decisions cannot be separated from the risks surrounding them, the course also builds a practical grounding in project risk management: identifying, measuring and assessing risk, then developing strategies to transfer, prevent or absorb its impact. Participants leave with the ability to keep risk at acceptable levels while keeping material costs and schedules under control.

Who Should Attend

• Purchasing and procurement managers responsible for major engineering projects within their companies.
• Project managers who depend on the efficiency of their organization's internal supply chain.
• Managers in other departments whose work connects to large projects, plus senior staff and anyone whose professional development involves supply or project management.

Course Objectives

• Understand how capital project expenditure is developed, planned and executed.
• Manage the organizational issues that affect purchasing and supply performance across the project's life cycle, including the long-term execution phase.
• Distinguish between routine purchasing (for maintenance and operations) and project-related purchasing.
• Advise project management on the full range of procurement, transport and logistics issues, from initial liquidation questions through surplus management.
• Recommend suitable purchasing strategies, and use different purchasing tools and techniques appropriate to different project situations.

Module 1: Material Management Across the Project Lifecycle

• Material management planning and preliminary (programming) design.
• Purchasing and vendor control.
• Construction processes and summary liquidation.
• Sourcing skills for materials and equipment on capital expenditure projects.

Module 2: Planning and Scheduling Engineering Projects

• Project planning systems and the relationship between planning and execution scheduling.
• Preparing the master execution program, the project's estimated budget, and resource-needs planning.
• Execution scheduling and its typical problems, and the scientific methods used in project planning.
• Resource allocation, monitoring project execution, and the role of information in more effective planning and rescheduling.

Module 3: Transport and Marine Risk

• Risks in economic projects, transport risks and how they are managed.
• Types of transport-risk insurance, and speculation-risk management in purchasing operations.
• Maritime transport problems and risks, and ways of insuring goods and production requirements when using sea transport.

Module 4: Fire, Industrial Security and Political Risk

• Fire risks and their types, fire-prevention program planning, and methods of managing fire risk.
• Storage risks in industrial companies, and the role of industrial security in reducing fire risk.
• Political risks and cases of external purchasing, including how to measure and manage them.

Practical Case Study

• A practical case study applying the concepts covered in the previous modules.