Refinery material management
Turnaround, shutdown and outage material management for refining and petrochemical operators — and the capital projects that run between them.
PMM was built inside a refinery. In 2014 we developed the material management SOP for Phillips 66 in Torrance, California, and it became a company-wide best practice. Every other service line we run today came out of that work.
Turnarounds fail on materials more often than they fail on craft. The material is on site but nobody can find it; it is issued to the wrong work package; a crew of eight walks off the job for forty minutes to chase one gasket. We manage the material so that stops happening, and we report on it daily so turnaround leadership can see it happening.
Scope of work
- Turnaround, shutdown and outage (STO) material management
- Capital project material management
- Receiving, inspection and tagging of direct and indirect materials
- Laydown yard and site storeroom setup, layout and operation
- Material kitting to work package, staged and delivered to the job site
- Reservations and allocations against the turnaround work scope
- Positive material identification (PMI) record capture and retention
- Surplus and excess reconciliation, return-to-vendor and close-out
- Procurement support: requisitions, expediting, RFQ and RFP management
- Contract administration and vendor coordination
- Site material staffing: coordinators, warehouse leads, material handlers
- Daily material readiness reporting to turnaround leadership
We staff up through planning and execution and demobilize on the same schedule your craft does. You are not carrying a fixed material crew through the back half of the job.
EZTRAK runs the receiving, tagging, kitting and issue record. It works offline, and it was designed for people who do not use software as part of their job — learnable in minutes, usable in seconds.
Every engagement leaves behind an SOP your team keeps. The Torrance SOP has been in place for ten years.
NAICS codes we contract under.
- 541614
- Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services — primary
- 493110
- General Warehousing and Storage
- 561990
- All Other Support Services (inventory taking services)
- 561210
- Facilities Support Services
- 488999
- All Other Support Activities for Transportation
Tell us what you are counting, and we will tell you what it is costing you.
Inventory, asset management, procurement and facility services, backed by our own software.