I left in 2019 just after the BT “pause”. Is SAP up and running yet? Has value been realized? Or was that a hundreds of millions down the toilet.
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Right. Of course there was the passport readers, library, dig dentistry etc
Our attempt at being a digital company is laughable. No one at 3M could fathom paying tech talent prices.
Yes there was a track and trace group and an industrial solutions group trying to commercialize 3m owned code.
Accenture would go out of business without companies finding ways to have 5 year SAP implementations. They feed you just enough info and support for the current quartet and no more. They are like those cost plus contracts the governments enter into with private companies, only to have bloated profits because they get more when it costs more. 3m shareholders effectively transferred wealth to Accenture employees and shareholders and still have a piece of cr-p system.
Wasn’t there a group in 3M years ago that was trying to commercialize homegrown software ?
$2.5 Billion in cost and counting. Most of which went to Accenture. Any company that believes they can outsource IT learns a tough lesson. Internal employees are cheaper and better in the long run.
The big companies that successfully implemented SAP made it work because they had seasoned employees with 25+ years experience given the time to be a super user and had a very thorough training and implementation plan. I know someone at one of those companies who is shocked how badly 3m screwed this one up. Maybe laying off too many of those seasoned employees before and during implementation mucked things up. I know several people who were told to implement SAP and then when it was done they would be cut. Why wouldn't those people want to drag this one along for years?
To be honest, 3M SAP projects are ruined by a group of amateurs. Never heard of a company that spent more than a decade implementing SAP systems and still not done. Companies like Honeywell, Walt Disney, Du Pont and many others, all run with SAP so well. The whole Business Transformation is just a reflection of the malfunction of this company.
Honest question, can anyone point to any company, anywhere, that has made money implementing SAP? Even SAP doesn't run on SAP...
I don't know what SAP had for blackmail on 3M execs, but is must have been good.
True story. There was once a BT director. Before every SAP class, he would ask the audience, what is the 3M share price the previous trading day. That year was in 2017 and share price was in uptrend above $200 bucks. He would always push the class to work harder, and claims that SAP will bring the company to new heights.
Fast forward to 2022. I wonder what will this BT director claim now. Especially the SAP has gone live in his region.
Those R1 SMEs are likely to face the layoff too. Times are looking bad as the corporation didn't see any value realised from SAP rollout
Our location's BT has been delayed several times. I heard it's tentatively scheduled for sometime in 2024 and I know at least one other location planning for 2025. Concern is that our IT staff and employees designated as BT superusers who took the SAP training before the "pause" will mostly be retired, let go, or quit before then. Then we'll be starting the process all over with fewer people to do the work.
Houle was clueless
Try closer to 3B. Houle are Ernie are out now
Sap has made billions with the promise of transforming your business. The training was cr-p and I feel bad for tech support. Grossly understaffed even before the latest haircut. Mike and monish must think sap runs on auto pilot.
I am from the recent SAP R1 launch. I can tell there is not much benefit in terms of value realisation. Issue is now everyone is overwhelmed with so much data and even the regional folks cannot advise how to use such data to 3M advantage.
In short SAP launch was over hyped.