Carlos Abi Youness, Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Carlos Abi Youness

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Mimosa Sanitary paper co.

Location
Lebanon
Education
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
26 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 8 Months

Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Mimosa Sanitary paper co.
  • Lebanon - Bekaa
  • My current job since January 2018

Maintain control of diverse Mimosa business operations. Safeguard and improve MIMOSA processes. Set long-term strategic objectives. Working on people learning and growth.
Projects consist to organize and enhance the internal processes, forecasting, budgeting, costing, procurement, warehousing, planning and production, using the following methodologies: SWOT analysis, Strategic planning, Lean Six Sigma, 5S, DMAIC wheel, ERP, MRP, High Performance Team, Empowerment and Delegation

Operations and Management Consultant at FREELANCER
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • November 2013 to December 2017

4 Manufacturer Customers: Kamaplast - Algeco - Fujilift - Bassile Freres
Projects consist to organize and enhance the internal processes, forecasting, budgeting, costing, procurement, warehousing, planning and production, using the following methodologies: SWOT analysis, Lean Six Sigma, 5S, DMAIC wheel, ERP, MRP, High Performance Team, Empowerment and Delegation

Supply Chain Manager at Sakr Power Systems
  • Lebanon
  • January 2010 to November 2013

Managing 4 departments: Master Planning, Procurement, Logistics, and Warehouses.
Major achievements:
• Restructure the Supply Chain to run its activities in systematic processes through setting up the master planning dept. responsible for planning, order management, S&OP (Sales & Operation), inventory management, branches stock management.
• Setting up the yearly, quarterly and monthly procurement budgeting
• Enhance Inventory turn mainly by applying JIT (Just In Time)
• Reduce the Cost mostly by working jointly with the design team
• Reduce Freight cost mostly by reducing air freight and enhance our cross trade shipments
• Increase our DPO (Days Payable Outstanding) by having supply agreement with our main suppliers
• Enhance our On Time Delivery by implementing S&OP processes

Planning Manager at Sakr Power Systems
  • Lebanon
  • March 2005 to December 2009

*Generate Master Production Schedules for forecast and sales orders
*Maintain accurate MRP and CRP
*Coordinate between the different departments: Sales, Costing, Design, *Purchase, accounting, production and quality.
*Generate statistical reports, Production indicators and material boards.
*Responsible of ERP implementation in Manufacturing department.

Production Manager at Sakr Power Systems
  • Lebanon
  • March 2004 to March 2005

*In charge of the management and organization of the workshop supervising 110 employees.
*Work centers scheduling of all work orders.
*Analyze and optimize labor and machine cost.

Design Manager at Sakr Power Systems
  • Lebanon
  • March 2002 to March 2004

*Ensured that all designs (Elect & Mech) were set to the required specifications.
*Assist the Sales and the costing department in establishing the cost and preparing the offers.
*Realized projects:
I- A project consisting of 37 power plants
each including 4x2MVA containerized gensets to run in parallel between each other and in parallel with the grid. The scope of supply includes:
- Containerized gensets with their control Panels and all the relevant accessories
- MV switchgears 11KV
- Step-up Transformers
- Earth protection system
- Bulk fuel tanks
The output of the design department includes:
- General design
- Shop drawings
- BOM

II- New series design for gensets and their canopies

III- New series design for Flood lighting

IV- GPU (Ground Power Unit) design

V- Design for GSM genset units with their enclosure

Assistant Overseas Manager at MATELEC France
  • France
  • April 2001 to February 2002

*In charge of the company management; reports to the Overseas Manager
*Re-organize and modernize the plant
*Implement ISO 9000 Quality Management system

Plant Manager at MATELEC Jordan
  • Jordan
  • January 2000 to March 2001

*Responsible for production, quality control, purchasing, sales, human resources and maintenance.
*In charge of the company management; reports to the Overseas Manager
*Re-organize and modernize the plant
*Implement ISO 9000 Quality Management system.

Maintenance Manager at MATELEC
  • Lebanon
  • September 1997 to December 1999

*Responsible for electrical, mechanical and automatic maintenance activities.
*Responsible for the installation of new machinery.
*PLC Programmer.

Education

Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Lebanese University
  • July 1996

Specialties & Skills

Operation
Management
Engineering
Microsoft Excel
ERP design
COMPUTER SKILLS: EXCEL ,Pro/Engineer, AutoCAD, Oracle/JD Edwards (ERP Software), MS Project,
Lean manufacturing Green Belt.
ISO9000-2000 Internal Auditor from SGS Lebanon.
Supply Chain Management
Operations management
problem solving
ms project
materials
planning
logistics
negotiation
procurement
operation
team leadership
accounting
people management
marketing
purchasing
purchase contracts
quotations
logistics management
purchasing negotiations
e procurement
lean manufacturing
maintenance management
manufacturing operations
purchasing management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

Leadership (Training)
Training Institute:
SAKR
Date Attended:
January 2009
Duration:
20 hours
Green Belt in Lean Manufacturing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2009
Valid Until:
January 9999
Time management (Training)
Training Institute:
SAKR
Date Attended:
November 2004
Duration:
20 hours
Train the trainer (Training)
Training Institute:
SAKR
Date Attended:
May 2005
Duration:
20 hours
ISO9000-2000 Internal Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2005
Valid Until:
January 9999
Developing High performance team (Training)
Training Institute:
SAKR
Date Attended:
June 2005
Duration:
10 hours
G Drive application engineering (Training)
Training Institute:
Cummins ltd, England
Date Attended:
March 2004
Strategic corporate Planning (Training)
Training Institute:
Marcus Evans
Date Attended:
February 2011
Finance for non Finance (Training)
Training Institute:
Leading Minds
Date Attended:
December 2010
CAD/CAM programming of Trumatic 600L (Training)
Training Institute:
Trumpf - Germany
Date Attended:
March 2001
Corporate Leadership & People Development (Training)
Training Institute:
Marcus Evans
Date Attended:
January 2011

Hobbies

  • Hiking
  • Cooking
  • Gardenning
  • Painting
  • Football