"Sathiyamurthy has been one of the first person I met when joining Bonfiglioli 4 years ago and since the very beginning cooperation and result orientation has been our common base of work.
Our production site in India managed by Sathiyamurthy achieved a continuous improvement leading Bonfiglioli Manufacturing Excellence strategy with processes redesign, new technologies installation and becoming the best practice in warehouse management.
Manufacturing cost target has been always achieved and improved thanks to his careful management style. Great journey to work with you ... See you soon! "
"It was great experience working with Sathiyamurthy from 2011 to 2017. He was the COO of our Industrial Unit in India and he was in charge of purchasing, planning, production, warehousing and continuous improvement. I had opportunity to interact with Sathiya on a daily basis both for routine activities and for numerous projects. Sathiya resulted to be by far the best performing manager in the organization each single year of my experience in India: He always achieved his targets, often over performing.
He never feared of coming out of comfort zone. His proactive approach, analytical skills, synthesis capability, taking decisions based on facts & data resulted in huge improvements. Sathiya has proposed, launched and led several projects in addition to those launched by me or the head quarter.
Remarkable examples of his achievements are the set up and rollout of a new plant in Pune, the rollout of SAP in our plant in Chennai, the full re-layout and modernization of the shop floor of our assembly facility in Chennai. Needless to mention huge savings coming from Supply Chain projects ranging from transportation to packaging and stock strategies.
Sathiya's most important achievement was his capability to create a strong team of managers.. It took few years of work and lot of dedication but when I left India at the end of 2017, our operations team was considered to be the “Best performing team” in the Group. Many Best Practices have been awarded and implemented in other plants of the Group.
Sathiya did a great job as a Coach and Mentor for his team. His relationship with colleagues is always transparent and clear; he prefers direct confrontation and clarity at any level. "
"Sathiyamurthy has been a very diligent professional - very thorough in his understanding of concepts which he applies to various situations at work enabling him to get outstanding results. He possesses a rather amiable disposition which endears him to his co-workers. It was a pleasure working with him and one could be sure that his output would be of a very high order. "
"Sathiyamurthy - An ideal asset to an organization and the customer. He has a meticulous and prudent approach to activities and brings tremendous discipline to any situation. Excellent understanding of engineering manufacturing industry and someone with natural managerial abilities. Looking forward to have your continued contribution in taking Changepond higher. Ahead Together!! "
"I worked with Shanmugam Sathiyamurthy for 1.3 years. He was Project Manager for 4 projects and it was unending learning stage for me. He is great mentor and great colleagues. He is very energetic, very ethical and professional in work. I learned many things in professional and personal work. "
"I have had the pleasure of working with Sathiya many times and in different occasions; mostly during SAP ERP implementation projects, where he was acting as Supply Chain consultant and project manager. Then, after he joined Bonfiglioli, as a colleague, covering the Operation Manager role.
In all these situations, he demonstrated to be an experienced and effective consultant and manager, with a deep knowledge of supply chain processes, tools and methodologies. Beyond the knowledge, he got also the ability to effectively transfer this know-how during the training sessions he led, where we show an immediate ability to connect with his audience. When working with him, it is quickly apparent that he is a detailed thinker and problem solver, able to analyse, to understand and to propose solutions to the process issues at any detail level.
Sathiya is a very smart, focused, and results oriented guy, always thinking about what is best and everything he does is first class."
"I personally admire the highly talented Sathiyamurthy more for his uprightness which is becoming a rare entity. As a Senior Projects Manager – SAP in Changepond , he has done wonderful implementations and has been consistently receiving accolades from wherever he has travelled across the world. I feel proud to be associated with a true professional. "
"Sathiyamurthy is a very dedicated person, very good in technical aspects of Production and Production related MIS. He has flair for Information and is also doing well in SAP. A very talented SAP Project manager."
"Sathiyamurthy is a very experienced & professional APICS instructor, attended a 4 days extensive online training for APICS-CSCP introduction course. The training was training was interactive with practical business examples, Many thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge in supply chain to me."
"It is indeed a happy and proud moment to have cleared the APICS SCOR-P certification exam with decent score of 325. More happier and proud I am, to reflect upon the support rendered by KnoWerX and my instructor Mr. Sathiyamurthy.
My association with KnoWerX goes back to 2014 and the dedicated team members have been updating me on all of the APICS certification programs from time to time. I was particularly interested in SCOR-P as I was involved in the Nokia operations program of supply chain process mapping in line with the SCOR framework and I represented the manufacturing process at that point in time. After very close pursuance by KnoWerX, I managed to enrol in the training program conducted in Bengaluru in Feb 2019.
Mr. Sathiyamurthy ensured that the three days program was packed with sharing of knowledge and experience, with openness to challenge and share one’s own learnings and interpretations too.
If not for the KnoWerx team’s personal attention provided e2e, I wonder if I would have taken out the time to enrol for the program and thereby manage to sign up for the exam, amidst the juggling I do between a very happening and challenging professional and personal life.
My utmost complements to KnoWerX team of Nistush, Mandira and my guru, Mr. Sathiyamurthy
"Sathiya is a very knowledgeable and meticulous person. He is a very good professional who can convince everyone to do things that are good to the organization as well enrich one's functional outlook. His success lies in his ability to blend wisdom with wit or humour and yet be focussed on his thoughts that prevail ultimately. He is an asset to any team be it the function or even the organization. I always look forward to work with someone like Sathiya."
"S. Sathiyamurthy a Chemical Engineer from AC tech transformed himself to be an expert as a SAP Consultant and later as a COO. It’s on account of his strenuous effort with lot of commitment, dedication, sacrifice, expertise and ability . Its only his real passion ,reputation to join hands by helping the people across the borders stretching himself to the level of helping people with selflessness and providing them the real guidance. Apart from an excellent business process knowledge, good configuration skills, communication, team playing, understanding the business needs, quality documentation, reading ability, sharing knowledge and many more. I could recall the initial days and the day the tables were turned during his tenure with us at Bonfiglioli . Revolutionized the supply chain link to the end customer level and transformed the entire process which gave birth to radical thinking on forecast , planning ,lead time & stock rotation for our customers delight . . Transformed the shop floor activity with super market concept and galvanized process of shop floor automation and these changes stand as a mute spectator as testimony to his contribution"
"Dear Sathiya sir you have played an instrumental role in my preparations for the CSCP, which I could successfully clear at my first attempt itself. I have found your coaching stlye extremely practical and experience based, that i could gain a deeper insight of concepts and recall very well even after an year. My heartfelt gratitude to you for the same, and best wishes for the future."
Sathiyamurthy was my colleague at a German Multinational and we worked together for 13 years since 1991. We continue to associate personally till date on many topics of mutual interest and I am extremely pleased and glad to have the opportunity to know him closely.
Over 28 years of exposure at all levels of Operations from Shop floor to the C Suite makes Sathiya uniquely qualified to articulate and provide different perspectives across multiple domains like Manufacturing, People Management and Supply Chain operations.
Some of the notable professional achievements of Sathiya have been
Being a production engineer, Sathiya adapted the German Activity Based Costing module for Indian Operations and became a SME on the same besides scaling up the process for a pilot plant from Germany
Sathiya worked on the SAP roll out gaining very valuable first hand experience in Process Redesign and translating the same into a set of information system tools
Sathiya worked with an Indian IT start up providing IT enabled business solutions across global clients
Sathiya worked with a Global trading major in stabilising their SAP systems
Sathiya’s final port of call was an Italian company that worked in Industrial solutions where he was able to leverage all his experiences to provide a wholesome leadership as the COO in charge of Manufacturing and SCM that included Erection and Commissioning of a green field manufacturing location
Sathiya is embarking on a mission to empower fellow professionals with his deep and passionate knowledge in SCM and it is heartening and I wish him all the success in his endeavour.