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Diagnose it, redesign it, stay through delivery.

Samayartha Advisory helps mid-market Indian manufacturing, industrial, and B2B technology companies diagnose what's constraining growth or margin, redesign the operating model around it, and stay through execution — not just the slide deck.

The name comes from samaya (time) and artha (purpose/wealth) — the belief that the right structure, applied at the right time, is what turns effort into outcomes.
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Vijay Harlapur

Founder & Principal Advisor
linkedin.com/in/vijay-harlapur
Education
  • B.Tech (Chemical Engineering), IIT Bombay
  • PGDM, XLRI Jamshedpur
Certifications
  • TOCICO Certified (Theory of Constraints)
  • CPIM Certified (APICS)
  • Advanced Certificate Course on Companies Act, 2013 — WBNUJS Kolkata

30 years of operating and transformation leadership.

Vijay brings over 30 years of senior operating and transformation leadership across global supply chain, customer operations, and technology-enabled change programmes. He has led delivery organisations of up to 300 consultants across India, Europe, Japan, and the United States, and has served as a fractional CIO driving enterprise digital transformation.

Selected career highlights
  • Program management and renewal of a USD 15 million, three-year global supply-chain transformation programme.
  • PMO and value-assurance leadership spanning 15 project managers and 300 consultants across multiple countries.
  • Delivered a 30% productivity improvement in a 240–320 person global customer-operations organisation serving 70+ enterprise clients.
  • As head of India operations for a global product-delivery organisation, reduced customer-reported defects by 50%, cut outstanding customer issues by 45%, and improved issue-resolution speed by 35%.
  • Served 2.5+ years as fractional CIO for a client, leading digital transformation — including a Zoho CRM implementation, integrated with ERP and design systems.
  • International delivery and leadership experience across Finland, Japan, the United States, and Germany.
  • Served on the Board of Directors of multiple global technology companies within an international enterprise-software group, contributing to governance, strategic oversight, and value-creation decisions.

Career highlights reflect prior professional roles and are presented in anonymised form; results depend on starting conditions, scope, and client execution. Company names withheld pending written approval.

Sectors & scale
Industrials Chemicals Packaging Consumer Electronics Consumer Durables Semiconductors Automotive Furniture Heavy Equipment Supply Chain Software ERP & Channel Data Management Software

This experience spans organisations from ₹100 crore to ₹2,000 crore in revenue, and client/customer organisations from ₹100 crore to ₹20,000 crore — giving Samayartha a working sense of what changes, and what doesn't, as a business scales from early mid-market to large enterprise.

Why Samayartha

What you're actually hiring.

01

Founder-led, always

The person who diagnoses the problem stays through delivery — no handoff to a junior team.

02

Method, not opinion

Diagnosis draws on structured, evidence-based frameworks spanning supply chain, operations, and technology — not generic playbooks or gut-feel.

03

Technology-fluent operations advisor

Equally comfortable redesigning a process and standing up the CRM/ERP/IT policy that makes it stick.

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