SUMMARY
Throughout the petroleum Industry, an important area of operations which is generally dated, cumbersome, ineffective, and ultimately costly is materials management. This is in spite of the previously unimagined technical advances in this "Age of Information". However, newly designed software, coupled with today's hardware, gives the average company unprecedented ability to utilize material management systems once thought available only to large companies.
Copyright 1986, Society of Petroleum Engineers
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