Research On Offshore Materiai Supply Efficiency Management Of International EPC Electric Power Project

As China joined WTO with deeper internationalization and internal electric power construction market has reached saturation point, more and more electric power construction companies step abroad to seek bigger market worldwide, one of which develops fast is EPC general contract. EPC general contract covers engineer, procurement and construction, the way which general contractor manages overall is adopted by more and more capable contractors, leading to broader development space to general contractors.However, compared with domestic projects, the overseas projects themselves have much uncertainty. Since different countries have different politics, culture, religion, law, etc. and also considering the distance and climate factors, the overseas projects usually delay for couple of months or even years and have greater risk of breach. As contractors gain more overseas experiences, the risk could be reduced. In contrast to objective factors, the efficiency loss and delay caused by inner management system problems are usually the key factors. The communication barrier and repeated work which are mainly due to different job function, goals for domestic and overseas projects cause efficiency loss that has adverse impact on the whole project. Therefore, it’s meaningful to research the problems and their relative dealing measures.This paper starts with the characters of EPC projects, along with different job functions of internal and external for international projects, and emphasizes on how the efficiency loss of the procurement, logistics, information transfer adversely affects the pace of construction process.1, The efficiency loss and solutions dealing with it in procurement process. The procurement process is a cohering process that plays important role in general contract EPC projects. Many vendors whose reputation and capability are different from each other are involved in the procurement process. Meanwhile, the procurement of equipment/materials is closely associated with the financial support of owner. As a result, the shipping timing and even pace of construction depends heavily on the procurement process. This paper mainly focuses on procurement cycle, procurement amount, change in supply and demand of market, and fund aspects to analyze the factors and dealing measures related to efficiency loss of procurement.2, The efficiency loss and solutions dealing with it in logistic process. Logistics extends the procurement and demands the EPC contractor to coordinate well on the inspection, dispatch, custom clearance, transportation, load and unload, etc. which needs the contractor to get on well with the customs, ship company, vendors, owner. It is not an easy work. This chapter discusses in line with the logistics sequence, including packing, inspection before dispatch, shipping, transportation, etc. to find the factors which hinder the dispatch efficiency and the corresponding solutions.3, The efficiency loss and solutions dealing with it in information transfer. Besides the procurement and logistics for the actual cargos, another factor for the project management is information transfer. One of the characters for the international EPC project is that procurement and construction are not in the same country which brings out the challenge to the communication&information transfer between the procurement, logistics and construction. How to escape from the efficiency loss thereof is the main point in this chapter and I hope it could indicate some ways for the subsequent job.Generally speaking, standard study and empirical study are used in this paper. Referring to the management practice of some electric power construction company in China and working in accordance with the ways of bringing out question, discussing it and make a solution, I study with the problems of efficiency loss and try to find out the factors which hinder the efficiency during the procurement, logistics, and information transfer in order to make solutions, applying related theory such as EPC management, organization structure. The main significance is to offer a set of reliable theory for companies to apply during the oversea development. Theory indicates practice which could let the companies go forward without any burden and realize the final goal.