SAP + A3M = Leave 3M ASAP.
9 replies (most recent on top)
Isn't the SAP license expiring in the next 2 years?
I have heard, that SpinCo will not count "only" on SAP, because of the license expiring...
@ A3M Blows!
60,000 SKUs in 3M... ha ha ha ha ha. I know one division that has that many SKUs in finished goods alone. Let alone RMs and semi-finished goods.
The rest of your points on SAP are valid. SAP was never right for 3M, and I'm fairly certain that SAP has never ever worked for a company even half the complexity of 3M. This has been clearly apparent since the first pilot in Taiwan. If 3M leadership was competent the disaster of the Canada rollout should have stopped SAP stone cold. Legacy systems we by no means perfect, but they were working. SAP has never been able to say it is working properly in 3M.
A3M is a different sort of clusterfu-k. It went from most people knowing who had decision making authority to absolutely nobody below the SVP level having any decision authority at all.
The utter lack of accountability from the top is disheartening, and the preponderance of constant missteps utterly mind blowing. At the onset of A3M I had a very large customer in SIBG (whom I had a great relationship with) tell me that their company attempted the same type of restructuring. I asked how it went and the person laughed so hard, and said it was an utter disaster due in large part to the size of their business. He then cheekily stated that he couldn’t wait to see what happened with 3M, which is an even bigger company. They wished me luck, and stated we should connect on LinkedIn…I regret not doing so! M&M need to step down and take Wee Pete with them!
Just wait for the explanation of the short ones latest plans
10,000 people losing their livelihoods, morale at an all time low, nobody gives a cr-p anymore. At one time 3M cared for us but they could care less now. Production workers can’t even get 40 hours if your area is not running. In my entire time at 3M I have never hated going to work, but now as soon as I pull through the gate I just get depressed. The people at the top are so out of touch with the working class. They have rooted out so many good knowledgeable people. Decatur Film has been gutted.
They won't admit A3M was a failure. Every manager when you heard it first explained was this is the d-mbest thing the company had ever done. No accountability. People couldnt even understand who reported to whom. The only comment came from Roman who said you could not use the phrase "A3M" anymore because it was already the new operating system. Complete disaster, and one of the key reasons the company imploded. A key reason 3M cannot commercialize or scale anything.
no transparency and corners cut and lack of application from senior management. A3M was doomed from the start, This place has no future
Was there ever a Post Mortem of what went wrong with A3M operating model? Was it shared with employees so that they can all learn from it?