SSA : The Republic of Guinea : United Mining Supply (UMS)

1. The company

UMS is a company which offers various services which make up a set of integrated logistics solutions. The company’s activities are mainly geared towards the mining sector, the large industrial Projects and the public works.

Since 2002 the date it was set up UMS vision has been to align its know-how with the international standards, namely in terms of quality.

The company has built up a unique work quality policy founded, on the one hand on its HSSE commitment in the implementation of various companies projects which it backs, and on the other hand, on its development strategy in steps with the stakes of long lasting development in Guinea.

2. Our Activities

Administrative management

• Administrative management of businesses
• “turn-key business”: from the legal constitution to human resources management

General

UMS represents 460 staff members divided within the following services:

– Administrative Services

– Legal Counsel and Assistance
– Public Relations
– HR Personnel Assistance: Medical, Administrative, Housing

– Transport

– Heavy Mining Transport
– Fuel and Heavy Fuel Transport
– Food & Non-Food Procurement and Delivery

– Civil Works

UMS Infrastructures

• Offices in Conakry : 600 m2
• Main logistics base in Conakry (transport service, workshops, warehousing, first parking) : 11.000 m2
• Second logistics base in Conakry : 13.000 m2
• Small logistics bases in Dinguiraye, Léro and Kankan
• Project of Logistic bases in N’zérékoré and Kamsar

Services

Our reputable and reliable links with our Guinean and International partners identifies UMS to be the fastest growing agent in Guinea, to offer the following services:

Administrative

• Assistance for all administrative formalities, mainly in the mining sector.
• Legal assistance with the most reputable and qualified lawyers specialized in the mining industry.
• Labor recruitment and HR follow up.
• HR Personnel Assistance: Medical, Administrative, Housing.
• Vehicles for Senior Staff Movements.

Procurement

• 10 years experience in local and international procurement.
• A dedicated team with extremely valuable know-how in the general purchasing (clear identification of local and international suppliers).
• This service proposes a daily follow-up of the purchases and deliveries.
• This completes a door to door delivery matching with our first class transport organization.
• The implemented follow-up tools give our customers a real time vision of the purchases carried out for their account.

Logistics

The logistics department takes care of your logistics activities.

- Handling and clearing management and follow up
- Transport solutions and follow up
- Door to door solutions

With tools adapted to your company so as to meet your personal requests and standards.

And integrates the Quality management:

- Transport performance reports
- HSSE performance reports
- Driver performance reports
- Customer complaint management

Site logistics base : for each long term transport contract, UMS provides a logistics base on site which offers daily follow up of the deliveries, Quality and HSSE control, small repairs and rest facilities for trucks and drivers.

Transport

UMS has a specific transport organization with formal rules, “step by step” process and experienced staff with precise tasks. Preparation of transport involves the following services: the Logistics Department plans the needs; the Transport Department programs the trucks, the technical services prepare the trucks, the HSSE and internal control services control trucks before departure and during the trip. UMS has specific internal administrative tools which are systematically used to allow a very precise follow up of every transport (“bon de chargement”, “ordre de transport”, daily delivery monitoring, weekly delivery monitoring).

• Sea – Air – Land
• All types of products:
  • Heavy machinery
• Hazardous materials
• Consumption materials
  

3. Our values and commitments

The quality

With the aim of always offering the best service, quality is today our prime commitment.

Our ambition is to build a relation of collaborator at all levels. Whether with our costumers and supplier or with the whole staff, we are seeking first and foremost to conduct, by abiding by the rules and regulation, the favorable development of each and everyone of these actors.

The HSSE (Health, Security, Safety, Environment)

Whether it comes to health, Safety or protection of the environment, our commitment is to provide the best working conditions to our employees. We are sure that the development of UMS will only be favored by the individual development of each of them.

At present, we have a whole team mainly devoted to HSSE. It is contributing to the improvement of the knowledge of our employees in this area through training and sensitization.

A whole set of rules and procedures of UMS aims at protecting the employees and ensuring a qualify staff to respond the requirements of each costumer and preventing all environment risks.

Community development

We are “an actor of development”. Our ambition is to assist the local communities in their social, economic development projects. We assist their various initiatives and encourage their effort linked to the protection of their environment.
Our commitment is to be an actor of socio-economic-development of Guinea.

4. Our strategy of long lasting development

Whit the aim of conducting long lasting actions, UMS spares no effort to promote the priority aspect of development.
Our mission is first and foremost to be an actor of development in Guinea, and our development policy is mainly geared towards three (3) fundamental aspects: social, economic and environmental.

The social scope of our commitment
Within UMS and for the businesses that we are backing, individuals are at the heart of development.
The policy of human resources set in place takes first and foremost into account, the individual development of each employee. Our social commitment is identifiable today at various levels:

• the internal promotion and the access to training in view of backing career development
• Social benefits in view of ensuring the best living conditions of the employees
• A whole service dedicated to HSSE normalization in view of ensuring the best working conditions of all the employees
• The community development through backing the school “changer le monde” and the basket ball team “Jeanne d’Arc”.

UMS is an economic actor

It’s because we have succeeded to establish a relation of confidence with our costumers that today they are entrusting us with their logistic materials. With this volume of purchase, we are today among the economic actors in the Guinean market.
From 2002 to 2008, the number of employees rose from 49 to 460, i.e. an increase of 225%.

Our strategy is to create employment by taking into account the economic context of the country. And, this is how we set in place a policy enabling our employees to have access to the ownership of the transportation equipment. In this way, they are ensured supplementary income for their individual development.

Respecting the environment

With the care to preserve nature for future generations, we always take the best steps when it comes to environment.

The staff we are employing is qualify and trained for the transportation of any kind of products, namely the product called “hazardous”. As a matter of fact, UMS is holder of all approvals in this area and puts at the disposal of the staff the appropriate training and sensitization for all the standards of security. UMS is actively taking part in the building and maintenance of road infrastructures.

Contact

General Manager : Fadi Wazni
Contact +224.64.21.49.38 fadi.wazni@ums-cky.com

Administrative Manager : Frédéric Bouzigues
Contact +224.63.40.46.57 frederic.bouzigues@ums-cky.com

Operation Manager : Morgan Le Moustarder
Contact +224.63.35.17.22 morgan.lemoustarder@ums-cky.com

Logistic Officer : Sylvie Pelletier
Contact: +224.64.52.66.94 sylie.pelletier@ums-cky.com

ums@biasy.net
www.ums-international.com