TNB Fuel
Transformations fuels CIPS award.
The largest coal buyer in Asia Pacific, TNB Fuel Malaysia has been transforming its procurement department to align with its strategic objectives. As part of a structured pathway to becoming a world-class procurement organisation, the company gained a CIPS Procurement Excellence Standard award, and then started working towards an Advanced award.
Chief Operating Officer
Noor Asihin Surani
About TNB Fuel
TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd, or TNB Fuel, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, or TNB, the largest utility company in Malaysia which employs over 35,000 staff and owns 60% of the country’s generating capacity. TNB Fuel started operations in 1998 as the country's coal procuring arm and serves both TNB and the other independent power producers.
TNB Fuel is currently the largest single coal-procuring company in South East Asia, handling almost 33 million tons. This will increase to 40 million tons in 2020, making TNB Fuel the backbone of almost 75% of the total Malaysian generation mix.
Procurement Excellence Programme
Why did TNB Fuel choose the CIPS Procurement Excellence Programme?
TNB Fuel is committed to excellence – from the products it procures to the service it provides to customers. The company's CIPS Procurement Excellence award provides recognition of its robust procurement processes and a progressive and structured platform towards excellence in procurement and supply operations.
TNB Fuel's procurement team aims to balance the multiple demands of customers, suppliers from around the world, and other stakeholders, by providing fuel at the lowest delivered cost whilst maintaining supply reliability and coal quality, and keeping market risk at an acceptable level. At the same time the team is working to be more sustainable, such as reducing the pollutant emissions from energy processing by sourcing “low-rank” coal which contains a lower concentration of carbon.
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