The National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has received ISO 22301, a quality assurance certification.
Speaking during the presentation, Mele Kyari, group managing director and chief executive officer of NNPC said the development would spur the unit to respond to emerging challenges. The occasion was also used to launch of the Electronic Materials Management Solution (E-MMS) in Abuja.
The NNPC boss praised the NNPC upstream directorate and NAPIMS for the feat, adding that its planned transition into a Companies and Allied Matters (CAMA) organisation would ensure that its businesses and procedures would be duly certified in line with best practices.
The ISO 22301 is the international standard for Business Continuity Management and is published by the International Organisation for Standardisation.
Adokiye Tombomieye, Group Executive Director, Upstream, in his comments, described the new platform as an end-to-end automated inventory management system developed to manage inventory, materials, auctioning and asset disposal.
He added that the deployment of the e-MMS would support its cost inventory initiatives and ensure seamless cross inventory and offer online direct payment gateway for items purchased from the auction platform.
Also speaking at the occasion, the Group General Manager, NAPIMS, Bala Wunti, said during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company developed a Business Continuity Plan initiative to eliminate disruption in its business operation and cash flow.
Wunti said it also launched the Nigeria Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme (NOCOP), which has markedly reduced the cost of operations.
Reacting to this development, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Simbi Wabote, urged the nation to begin to assimilate the fact that the NNPC will soon begin to operate like a private organisation, with little government interference.
Ayomide Samson
