Satu Huikuri
Senior Managing Consultant
“Satu is a true expert on end-to-end business process and IT solution development, communicating fluently with different stakeholders in business and IT.”
Special skills
Strong end-to-end knowledge from sales configurators and eCommerce to PLM, ERP and BI tools
Order-to-delivery / order-to-cash processes
Product lifecycle processes, Engineering processes
Engineer-to-order products, Configure-to-order products
New Equipment and Service businesses
Understanding both OEM's and OEM's customer's perspectives
Post-merger/acquisition business process and IT integration projects
Business and IT transformation projects
Strengths
Converting complex business scenarios and processes into actionable project plans, roadmaps, and carefully thought end-to-end solutions; seeing the big picture and dependencies, also understanding details
Speaking both business and IT – fluent communication with people from different functions and organisation levels in multicultural environments. Making things work both in physical and virtual teams.
Change management skills: people, processes, technology
Relevant experience
13 years of experience in roll outing and developing global ERP, PLM, integrated systems and business processes for sales, project management, engineering, manufacturing, and service units worldwide:
~25 rollouts in lead expert and advisor roles
Machinery industry
Steel construction industry
Forest industry
Experienced transformation lead, process developer and solution architect, core competencies ERP and PLM. Various global roles in the business-IT interface, representing both sides.
Education
M. Sc. (Tech) In Industrial Engineering & Management (Univ. of Oulu, 2011)
Major: Project & Quality Management
Minors: IT, Electrical Engineering