Elias Gaouro, Business Analyst, Supply Management

Elias Gaouro

Business Analyst, Supply Management

Airbus

Location
Canada - Mirabel
Education
Higher diploma, Diploma (Dip.) Supply Chain and Operations Management
Experience
15 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months

Business Analyst, Supply Management at Airbus
  • Canada - Mirabel
  • My current job since August 2022

Develop an early warning system to detect the missing parts linked to A220 at Canada and US facilities which helped achieve the production ramp-up target.

Estimate and diagnose the inventory buffer for the A220 aircraft parts, which allowed the supply management team to anticipate shortage risks related to different parts types such as BFE, BSE, tools, consumables.

Simplified the Bill of Materials by designing a forecasting tool, used by multiple units for calculation and analytics.

Support Airbus by simplifying and improving the Supply Management KPI such as late orders, missing parts, parked invoices.

Regional Commodity Buyer, Interior at Alstom
  • Canada - Montreal
  • August 2021 to August 2022

Manage Procurement contracts for high-speed trains in north America including coordinating the technical and commercial activities for the interior commodity, including performing price and lead time analysis.

Manage the Request for Quotations (RFQ) process for Interior cabin, including shortlisting, analysing and negotiating with selected suppliers by ensuring terms are aligned with financial, goals in a timely and quality manners. Collaborated seamlessly with the Engineering and Quality departments to streamline and ensure timely sourcing product development cycles within established quality gates.

Coordinate the change requests with project managements by preparing the required costing and implementing the required revision in SAP.

Supply Chain Specialist at Kruger Recycling
  • Canada - Montreal
  • June 2021 to August 2021

Harmonize the transportation activities with transporters, customers, and the buying team including order creation in SAP, rendering different KPI from transportation and yard management system.

Supply Chain Coordinator, International Team at BrandSafway
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2018 to August 2020

Negotiated a CAPEX/OPEX cost reduction of 90k $ in 2019 and 200k $ in 2020 related to CAPEX & OPEX expenses.

Coordinate in developing the new products across the region, includes vendors quality assessment.

Develop an online price list across the region linked to the LME rates, so the rate of aluminum elements updated automatically.

Generate the monthly KPI, vendor score cards and international raw materials review.

Procurement Manager at ASSENT
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2017 to June 2018

Managed $14M of CAPEX and $12M of OPEX annually, while strategically enhancing supplier relationships to achieve a 15% savings increase in less than 6 months.

Managed a $48M expansion project at ASSENT, overseeing the procurement of fully automated machinery, doubling the facility size, and boosting production capacity.

Introduce supply chain redundancy, flexibility which helped strengthening the resilience of standardized steel production.

Sr. Procurement Engineer at Inco International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2009 to January 2017

Increased the percentage of international vendors from 1% to 20% within 2 years, resulting 800k USD cost reduction over the same period.

Introduced welding automation which increased the production efficiency by 20%.

Negotiated a Cost reduction of 0.8M $ in 2015 related to projects raw materials procurements.

Process Engineer at Solitaire
  • Syria - Aleppo
  • September 2008 to February 2009

Sep 08 - Feb 09 Process Engineer, Solitaire glass factory - Aleppo industrial city, Aleppo, Syria

• Technical and supervisor for furnace, drawing and cutting department in sheet glass production line.
• Planning and supervise 12 cutting operation in sheet glass line.
• Lead 6 cutting operation in figured glass line
• Prepare full production report
• Built incentive system by Microsoft excel

Supervisor at Aleppo CO For cables factory
  • Syria - Aleppo
  • September 2007 to October 2007

Sep 07 - Oct 07 Supervisor, Aleppo CO For cables factory, Aleppo, Syria

• Supervising the assembling of fabrication line for draft cables with TROESTER Company, Ger- many


UAE, Dubai

Education

Higher diploma, Diploma (Dip.) Supply Chain and Operations Management
  • at Mcgill University
  • May 2024
Diploma, Supply Chain
  • at Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
  • June 2019
Bachelor's degree, BSc. In Mechanical Engineering
  • at University of Aleppo
  • June 2008

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Specialties & Skills

Procurement
Oil and Gas
Project Management
Six Sigma
Call for tender
Cost Management
Negotiation
Microsoft Excel
Supplier Relationship

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Memberships

Massachusetts Institute of technology
  • Alumni
  • June 2019

Training and Certifications

Supply Chain Analytics (Training)
Training Institute:
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
Date Attended:
November 2016
Leadership development program (Training)
Training Institute:
Lammore Consulting UAE
Date Attended:
March 2014
Duration:
60 hours

Hobbies

  • Reading
  • Walking
  • Swimming