Product's Supply Planning and Policy Making in Oil Industry

The process of supplying goods and services in oil industry bears an ancient and established structure and has provided the driving force of this industry during different and difficult conditions such as war and sanctions. The entire needs of the industry were met by Iranian oil services and foreign resources before war. The idea of products supply fostered as foreign contracts were repealed and oil industry was boycotted after Iranian revolution. The self-sufficiency policy revealed in this period resulted in creation and development of a series of supplying industries and the relevant structures of this industry.
However, the required software for supply purposes such as purchasing and also the necessary institutions for suppliers and industry authorities’ communication didn’t developed. Therefore, it has faced the issues of information decentralization for purchase and the lack of opacity in the market. In this article, the problems of products supply in oil industry are discussed with a historical approach towards its creation and development.