KNPC Congratulates KIMS Department on the nomination and being short-listed for the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project of the Year Award for 2011. Each year the PMI Project Of the Year (POY) Award recognizes the accomplishments of a project and project team for superior performance, exemplary project management execution, innovation in the use of project management technology and other processes that meets the PMI eligibility criteria. The Supply Chain Optimization (SCO) Project implemented by KNPC Integrated Management System (KIMS) was short-listed among the top-ten best projects nominated from around the world.
The Project Management Institute Arabian Gulf Chapter (PMI-AGC) has honored KNPC on this prestigious achievement in a ceremony recently held in Kuwait. The event was witnessed by the Oil sector senior management, staff, PMI members, President of the PMI-AGC and the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute Arabian Gulf Chapter Kuwait region.
Initiated in November 2006 and completed in 2010. The implementation of the Supply Chain Optimization project is a big leap towards achieving KNPC’s strategic vision and it’s wide recognition as a major player in the global refining industry. It helped changing KNPC into a customer focused organization that delivers on-spec products on schedule with minimum giveaway while optimizing refinery utilization, increase productivity of existing assets and overall profitability. For the first time ever in the petroleum industry on such a massive scale, a suite of decision making tools incorporating a number of new business processes is successfully deployed. At this point no other production or refining facility in petroleum industry has the befit of a fully integrated decision making chain of production process as KNPC has today. Since January 2010 – KNPC’s three refineries are using a common platform of applications and unified business processes in the Shot-term and Mid-term Planning, Refinery Scheduling, Inventory Projections, Production Accounting, Oil Movements & Dock Execution, Operations Execution and Performance Management.
Well done to the KIMS team for securing this prestigious award for KNPC.
