The Remarkable Journey of Karthick Jayakumara Sarma: Making Supply Chain Data Human
New Delhi [India], October 18: Recipient of the Indian Achievers Award 2025, Karthick Jayakumara Sarma represents a new generation of professionals redefining leadership in the digital age. A blend of consultant, researcher, and storyteller, he has built a career on one simple belief that good data leads to better decisions. Karthick’s journey wasn’t a straight line. Trained as [...]
New Delhi [India], October 18: Recipient of the Indian Achievers Award 2025, Karthick Jayakumara Sarma represents a new generation of professionals redefining leadership in the digital age. A blend of consultant, researcher, and storyteller, he has built a career on one simple belief that good data leads to better decisions.
Karthick’s journey wasn’t a straight line. Trained as an engineer, he began his career decoding systems before realising that the real challenge lay not in technology itself, but in how organisations understood and trusted their data. Seeking to bridge that gap between technical depth and business purpose, he pursued an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, which opened his perspective to how data drives planning, performance, and collaboration across global operations. Years of consulting experience deepened this understanding, eventually inspiring him to return to research through a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Data Analytics at the Swiss School of Business and Management (SSBM Geneva). His doctoral work now focuses on how improving data quality can make supply chains more efficient, resilient, and future-ready.