Ahmed Kareem Kamar, Operations General Manager

Ahmed Kareem Kamar

Operations General Manager

Universal Group

Lieu
Egypte - Le Caire
Éducation
Diplôme, Reverse Engineering
Expérience
26 years, 0 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :26 years, 0 Mois

Operations General Manager à Universal Group
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 2016

Roles and Responsibilities
Productivity - P&L
- Establishing Data analysis - Problem Identification - ActionPlan - Plan Execution - Results Evaluation cycles
- Manage optimization of raw materials and time resources usage
- Ensure maintaining operations under effective cost analysis (Full Operational Costs, BEP)
- Ensure Preventive Maintenance implementation, OEE implementation and integration with SAP
- Constructed Task Force teams targeting chronic productivity problems
- Formulated a Score Card system for monitoring and optimizing key plant KPIs
ERP System
- Leading, controlling and optimizing SAP implementation (implementation started Jan 2016) throughout all operations departments
- Optimizing and supporting Planning Department functions of utilization, control and output with SAP
- Optimizing Supply Chain functions and Integration with SAP
- Focus on Master Data control and precision
- Quality Control & Assurance
- Bias to Quality: Ensuring implementation of QMS procedures throughout process
- Inserting a KPIs system with a customer's satisfaction index
- Integrating Quality Control procedures into SAP ERP system transactions
Supply Chain
- Inventory Reduction - Utilizing SAP ERP system implementation to control and reduce internal (WIP) inventory
- Utilizing SAP ERP system to identify and eliminate slow moving stock items
- Optimization of Purchasing Function: Lead time integration with ERP and proper integration with Planning and Warehouse Departments

General Manager à Agrimatco
  • Egypte - Alexandrie
  • novembre 2010 à décembre 2015

Eurofert Fertilizers Factory

Reporting to: VP, Fertilizers Operations Director
Heading: Five Department Managers



Roles and Responsibilities
- Ensure optimal safe working environment and full adherence to safety instructions.
- Optimally manage human resources
- Ensure the establishment of an optimised Quality Management System
- Develop strategic Business Plan outlook
- Develop annual Business Plan
- Develop Marketing Startegies and Promotional Plan
- Ensure customer’s full satisfaction and effective deployment of Sales and Marketing strategies
- Optimize Production Department performance and material yield
- Ensure efficient raw materials procurement, optimised inventory management
- Optimize departments’ cross functional communications and foster teamwork
- Ensure Maintenace systems are working optimally on Preventive Maintenance basis
- Managed and planned pilot production and transition to commercial production
- Manage and sponsor contionous development of performance
- Liason between Marketing and R&D to construct final products portfolios and BOMs
- Develop, obtain approval and implement plant oranizational structure
- Manage recruitment process

Commisioning Phase:
- Ensure all parties strong adherence to safety on site
- Construct, integrate, manage, report and update a full project plan associating all team members
- Assist in selection of production equipment manufacturers
- Coordinate and manage all contacts with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Industrial Development Authority and The General Investment Authority
- Coordinate and manage all contacts and contracts with municipal authorities targeting the acquisition of Manufacturing Permits
- Ensure and report contractor’s progress against plan as third party

Factory Manager - Operations Managing Director à H.B.Fuller Egypt
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • août 2009 à septembre 2010

Reporting to: CEO Vice President, Europe - Operations Director
Heading: Six Department Managers



Roles and Responsibilities
- Ensure full implementation H.B.Fuller’s global safety policies on site
- Ensure optimum product quality and optimization of Quality Management System
- Optimize usage of raw materials and time resources .Ensure preventive maintenance implementation
- Set monthly and annual budgets and ensure optimization of Financial Control function.
- Foster endorse and reward team building, team work culture and high employee engagement
- Monitor and ensure Continuous Development of all key plant KPIs
- Ensure optimization of Planning and Inventory Control, high Stock Take precision and smooth ERP sytem application
- Organize and liaison between global and local cross functional teams
- Ensure ease and precision of information flow (Daily Morning Meetings, Weekly Sales and Operations Meetings
- Prepare the site for Lean Six Sigma implementation
- Adjusting Production Shifts System (Production increase of more than 50%)
- Recruiting 60 % of labor while maintenance of a gradual productivity increase
- ISO 9001/2008 awarding (July 2010)
- Expanding storage capacity and locating new warehouses while maintaining 100% operational functionality
- Maintain close coordination with Sales Function. And Monitor top client’s feed-back and portfolios ( P&G, Hayat, Fine)
- Ensure compliance with ISO 9001/2008
- Report performance to top management, Europe and North America

Product Development Projects Planning Manager à Olympic Group
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • avril 2006 à juillet 2009

Reporting to: R&D Director
Supervising: 4 Product Development Managers


Roles and Responsibilities
- Planning New Product Development (NPD), Product Modification and Product Cost Reduction Projects WBS.
- Managing creation of New Product’s Manufacturing Process Map and Taskforce
- Constructing, loading and monitoring corporate cross-functional teams.
- Managing Day to day projects’ activities and ssuing resource’s tasks on weekly basis
- Change Control management., risk analysis and contingencies planning.
- Analysing Tracking and charting resources’ progress, time, budget and scope compliance.
- Managing projects closure.
- Formulation of : Annual products development plan, Projects Earned Value Analysis, Projects DOR, Project Dependency Structure Matrix, Development Managers’ annual work plans, monthly scorecards, gab analysis

Production Manager à Electrolux Egypt (Olympic Group)
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • novembre 2004 à mars 2006

Reporting to: Production Operations Manager
Supervising: 7 Unit Heads


Roles and Responsibilities
- Leading, planning, controlling and staffing of Production Department
- Optimising resources usage and full execution of production plan
- Performance analysis, reporting and implementation of corrective actions

Implementing, Plotting and leading a Lean Manufacturing oriented operations optimization plan:
- Located flaws in plant Manufacturing Control Function which consequently fluctuates units’ manufacturing cost .
- Implemented remedy in the form of transformation to Cellular Manufacturing manifested in re-configuring the plant into cells or work-centers with a calculated standard performance pattern
- Measured plant performance through standardizing work-centers’ or cells’ KPIs and comparing performance to standard
- Managed production through continuous development loops.
- Managed a task force attempting Production line Balancing and Workstation Remodeling using LG line balancing software.
- Implemented an OEE -based production machines operations monitoring and reporting system.
- Standardized Plant Handling System which was separated from normal production operations and replaced by an inter- cellular customed handling system.
- Activated ERP System’s Production Module (Oracle).
- WIP inventory calculation control and reduction.

The implementation led to 16% increase in Line Labor Efficiency, 12% increase in Line Balancing Efficiency leading to a total of 15% Productivity increase, manufacturing cost fluctuation reduction to +/- 10%.

Production Engineer à Pepsi Cola Egypt
  • Egypte - Alexandrie
  • mai 1998 à octobre 2004

Reporting to: Production Manager
Supervising: Production labor and Technicians



Roles and Responsibilities
- Optimized execution of daily production plan.
- Performance monitoring, shift leading, organizing, staffing and controlling of two (RB) production lines.
- Execution of operations according to Pepsi Beverages International (PBI) quality standards.
- Optimization of time usage, line maneuvering, product changeover time, wastage reduction and Ingredient consumption
All in accordance with Pepsi-Cola’s Manufacturing and Warehousing (M&W) operations optimization management solution
- Constructed a mathematical model simulating the production line targeting optimized operation
- Designed a hygienic easy-application cover for the filler entry area of production line

Éducation

Diplôme, Reverse Engineering
  • à American University in Cairo
  • octobre 2006
Baccalauréat, Mechanical Engineering
  • à Alexandria University
  • juin 1996
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, GCE
  • à London University
  • juin 1989

Specialties & Skills

Installation
Factory
Production
operations
Product Development
Operation Management
Strategic Planning
Process Optimization
Projects Management
Management
Product Development

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert

Loisirs

  • Scientific Research - Astronomy