Vivek Suri is an Operations and Supply Chain consultant with 18 years of experience in operational excellence, digital transformation and supply chain optimisation. He has driven financial improvement and process transformation programs for organisations from a variety of industries including manufacturing, wholesale, distribution and retail.
Vivek now specialises in consulting to SMEs and his work includes benchmarking performance to find improvement opportunities, working hand in hand with top executives and line managers, and reduce costs and streamlining core processes to improve efficiencies, profitability and cashflow.
I enjoy the speed and the agility of SMEs. SMEs are typically run by owners who have a strong desire to improve, and I enjoy making a difference. Their speed of decision making and implementing the change is fast, as there are minimum layers of hierarchy.
Starting own business helps me to deliver more. It keeps me on my toes to perform at my best, as it is my ‘skin in the game’ and there is less certainty compared to being an employee.
People are most surprised by my unique experience of having worked ‘hands on’ in various functions, before I started managing and then consulting to businesses. Successful change cannot be made in isolation and having a detailed understanding of end-to-end business processes helps ensure the success of the change.
Vivek’s top skills are problem solving, creative thinking, communication and collaboration with all organisation levels and change management.
Vivek holds an MBA from AGSM, UNSW and is certified in Project Management from the Australian Institute of Management.
