The company’s central stores in Kuwait have a foot-print of 40,000sq m, including 20,000sq m of covered storage and 13,000sq m of open yards. These stores are equipped with heavy duty multi-storey and cantilever racking and are serviced by advanced material handling facilities and security systems. The company has storage facilities in all the countries in which Kharafi National operates.

There are separate stores for the control of spares parts for the Equipment Division and the company maintains spare parts inter-changeability records provided by its equipment suppliers. Material stores for the fabrication workshops are linked with ABJ’s Material Requirements Planning System which controls the manufacturing process.

These stores and the material management system are operated by a multi-national staff consisting of more than 300 engineers, supervisors, store keepers, and warehousemen, who have the experience and resources required to handle all the company’s inventory needs.

Kharafi National’s material management system handles in excess of 100,000 items annually to serve the needs of more than 200 projects across the Middle East and Africa. The company follows uniform material coding and standardization practices for product identification and traceability. This involves controlling over US$300 million worth of materials procured by the company each year and over US$1 billion worth of client-supplied free issue materials. The company’s monthly stores transactions exceed 5,200 receipts and 6,300 issues and transfers of material and parts. The material management and inventory control operations are computerised with ATS and Oracle ERP’s inventory modules.