Mass layoffs in SEC and CF&C. Later get a mail that strategic vendor will take over.
ACN 1: Nike FTEs 0
CF and MF shamelessly persist despite their incompetency.
Is this what EH came to Nike for? Looks like JD was infact much better atleast for GT. Plus the stock price has tanked 25% after he came onboard.
DeLtA mErGe to the Rescue
All the raises and promotions that have been lost by Nike employees are going to Accenture instead:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/accenture-announces-3-13-salary-hikes-for-the-first-time-in-2-5-years-50000-people-promoted-including-15000-in-india/amp_articleshow/121322047.cms
What do you expect when someone without tech expertise takes the helm! We’re going back to basic buy and sell business model no need for tech innovation until competitors eat up the pie lololol
All of these pro-ACN and anti-Nike FTE posts are a joke.
Most of the ACN consultants I worked with in the past couple years in SEC were bottom of the barrel. Whenever the tough issues came and the configurations they suggested didn't work, they either pointed fingers at the other vendors or relied on the Nike vets to get things fixed. It was a clownshow of incompetence from these supposed experts.
But the decision has been made. Nike leadership sold out it's loyal own to transfer responsibility of the new ERP failures to a 3rd party. Nike is not getting better expertise and it's certainly going to be less expensive. But at the end of the day, it buys people like CF more time, and only time will tell if this actually materializes into a good thing for Nike in the long run. On the surface, it doesn't look promising.
ACN is best to manage this. Much better than over compensated Nike turds
dear business user,
please tell us what capability will be delivered with the new ERP that is new and allows us to serve the athlete.
SEC is digging a large hole for no reason or business justification just to provide low effort / high compensation employment opportunities to ACN (billed by the hour)
Business user here…aka Accenture person . Quit lying. ACN has been on the program for 6 years.
Business user here and very closely connected to the ERP go live and historical work that happens in the ERP space during each quarterly planning. The callout below is correct that the Nike team did a great job managing the old ERP. I mean no disrespect to anyone impacted but they were also a team that was difficult to work with and didn't always deliver on commitments which was possibly out of their control. I've seen the struggles with the SEC go live and again no dis-respect for those impacted but we didn't see progress until ACN was called in to help solve the problem, there are endless examples of this. ACN is in the business of deploying new ERP's, I suspect 100's of deployments in flight so of course they have deep S4 knowledge. People impact aside which is horrible I support the direction to get us true experts in the space.
How long until Accenture tries to hire the Nike people that were let go this week? They know they don’t have the resources and talent they need.
@d5+1jvb3vvjh Good to see some Accenture people posting on here…
Claiming ACN people are trained in S4 is id--tic. Claiming they will do this better is the same. They aren’t a tech company either, they sell services. They have shareholders, $ is the only thing that matters. Also, this wasn’t less expensive for Nike. Let that sink in as to why this happened then. Go read a couple of other threads and you will know why.
Oh, EMEA’s rollout is gonna be a damn fireworks show, except the kind where everything catches fire and no one’s clapping. 80% of the tribal knowledge is already down the drain this week, so good luck hitting go-live on time. We all saw how NA limped through stabilization even with a six-month delay, cherry on top europeans doesn’t have the luxury of forcing people to work nights and weekends like we did over here.
As for the geo? EMEA is not gaining jack. No shiny upgrades, just losing all the automation they actually managed to cobble together. It’s a full-on regression, big ol' CTRL+Z on progress. Massive rollback on capabilities. I’m real curious if CG even has a clue what kind of flaming disaster is about to wreck his GEO P&L post go-live, because if Cyber Week in NA was a clue, this is going to be a full-blown dumpster fire.
CF, MF, and MF the CFO should all be in the hot seat for this epic sc--w-up. But nah, no one’s owning it.
And honestly, any real company would be dragging ACN across the coals too—they’re the ones who sold the trainwreck of a business case. But hey, we’re not exactly operating in the land of accountability now, are we?
On the flip side, gotta say I’m kinda happy for the folks who managed to escape this dumpster fire this week. Last year during MANA, I was basically one bad meeting away from a full-blown mental breakdown. Now? I’m clocking like 8 hours a week, hitting the gym, soaking up chill vibes with the decent humans in the berm. Honestly feels like early retirement. Meanwhile, SEC’s the only part of GT where anyone still expected to work on delivering results and meeting thight deadlines... like, imagine that.
While it’s sad on a personal level these teams were let go it makes business sense. ACN lives & breathes SAP S4 and have many more experts than Nike does to support it. The folks let go were steeped in old Nike tech knowledge for sure (majority of them) but that won’t serve tech as well as people who are highly trained & experienced in the new ERP (I know that won’t be true for every one of them but the majority will be) Nike isn’t a tech company so it makes sense to have a vendor manage this and be responsible for keeping it healthy. You can bet the contract with them is air tight on penalties when the system is down. They’ll be all over it anytime there is an issue.
Not saying they’re perfect (far from it) or know Nike best, simply that this decision makes sense for now. Also this is part of the Nike Tech cycle - “Yay tech!” to “Tech su-ks!” and around we go.
@a6 nailed it...
Ohhh just wait until that first Sev 1 and watch ACN flounder without the expertise you just let go.
Retail/Cyber Monday/all of that... oof. The downtime is going to cost many millions more than was "saved" from layoffs.
IT by accounting never works.
For those bashing tech, if you work at Nike you use it every single day. It's the power company of the org, good luck without it sitting in the dark.
Can someone please explain how CF gets $ from ACN? What’s the back story? It sickens me to my stomach when I think about the colleagues that were let go at WHQ and ITC. Nike’s loss.
@b1+1jvb3vvjh It’s not about tech being a cost center it’s about focusing investments on core competencies.
Besides, shifting to wholesale and house of brands changes the investment strategy - everyone saw this coming.
Also the Stock isn’t down because of EH, that’s like blaming the current trade war on Biden.
I dont understand the comments on CF getting $ from ACN. Is there a back story there?
You can tell the people that don’t understand complicated things like developing software or running tech processes. Shoe design has got to be one of the easiest jobs nowadays. Oh let’s take an old shoe and change the color! Such wow!
@ay+1jvb3vvjh That is such a narrow-minded 90's thought that Technology is a cost center. Its 2025, no company can survive in the market without technology, especially when it is outsourced to a third-party who only care about billing rate.
Thanks for the gleeful encouragement to another's misery, karma is bi--h and coming for you soon.
OP Jd was better for tech because he incorrectly thought Nike was a tech company. Nike is a SPORTS PRODUCT AND STORYTELLING COMPANY who only needs tech when it makes us better at 1. Creating product , 2 selling product 3. Storytelling product. He didn’t understand product, heart, brand or marketplace.
Money is shifting, appropriately .
This means Corinne sold out Nike employees and takes $ from Accenture. Accenture gets ongoing business.
What does any of this mean, I don’t know any of what you guys are talking about.
Now I really wish that EMEA roll out should fail, and let the existing system crash during the year end.
I will party the day CF and MF loose their jobs
Agree. Expert knowledge let go. Gonna be interesting when a major incident pops up for EMEA and no one is there to resolve or knows SAP. Will be a rude awakening for sure. Frustrating to see all of leadership still intact for SEC with no ability to resolve tech issues.
Sure SEC needs to be thinned out but the selections are a head scratcher.
This is so shameless! How can these VPs let ACN steamroll over SEC and CF?? Some of the best talent were let go. Tenured and highly skilled. This is disappointing.
Wondering what the strategic vendor will do when the system is down and they can’t ship customer orders.
I wonder how much $ CF took.