Thread regarding 3M layoffs

All the folks associated with the 3M ERP program should be ashamed. Burning billions of dollars on Accenture consultants, and not even finishing the project…. All the legacy systems are still around. The new CIDO however is even worse. No strategy other than to eliminate employees short term, and move positions to India.

Actually many 3M people who are full time SAP- have enjoyed many years of free travel and hotel stays... they became platinum or Gold members for airline and hotel stays... not forgetting the free gourmet at each country they travel to.

You know, we hired many of those high-priced SAP consultants into 3M high level leadership positions assuming it would seal the deal in getting SAP deployed with continued knowledge transfer to 3M employees and sustainability. I wonder what those SAP, now 3Mers, have to say about this. Would be an interesting conversation.

It’s very true that many lucky ones got a free ride up. Those promotion template used to have boxes that checked…. “BT experience”, “LSS experience”….. lucky folks

Current version of SAP is EOL IN 2027 with extended maintenance through 2030

SAP and A3M were simply projects to put pet "hipo" employees into leadership roles and then give them double promotions..move them out before the house of cards crumbles. Voila! Wash rinse repeat.

This culture started under mcnerney with sick sigma and help launch MVs career until he got caught in some inexplicably d-mb side projects in Woodbury.

Someone told me the version of SAP that 3M is deploying goes EOL in the next couple of years.

3M won’t be the first company that goes to bankruptcy after a failed SAP deployment. Consultants and BT teams made a lot of money with no accountability for the results, one more examples of rotten 3M management. I still remember the disaster 3M Canada SAP go live, how much it hurt customers and the hugh expenses to fix all the mess!

The water in the sink goes round and round. Round and round. Round and round.

The water in the sink goes round and round. Then all the way down.

When someone finally writes a book about 3M (plenty of people here with enough knowledge to write one) there will need to be an entire section dedicated to BT/SAP. Lots of people got several job level promotions to roll out SAP, with promises of billions in "value realization" (AKA cost savings with reduced headcount) that never materialized. Just another blunder in a series of blunders this company has made on its march towards irrelevancy.

Yes. Replace all the "legacy" systems with the brand new and amazing SAP. Err... Wait a minute, SAP is as old as dirt and was created in the 1970s and the user interface is stuck in the 90s.

How far along are we now? After 10+ years of trying.

One of 3M’s biggest project failures.

As with all company initiatives, it began as a unified focused vision, and then splintered into a multitude of smaller, different initiatives.

Various groups came forward to demand something different because their business or products or area had unique requirements (which often were legacy capabilities that weren't actual requirements) so they couldn't possibly conform to the corporate vision.

Also there was a bit of "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" with the original simplified vision, and the originally proposed solution really wasn't the right one in some cases.