Interesting comments. It flat out sends a message to the external market and to internal foundation that more significant restructuring is coming immediately. However it is short sighted. 3M has spend decades optimizing operations, and designing structures that provide products with consistent high quality and OEE agility and flexibility to meet service demands with teams aligned to business unit priorities. Given the last few years of restructuring and “simplification” in this discipline, including last year’s massive layoffs, it is strange to say that all of that was basically failed because things are still too complex. Maybe it’s simply too complex for those new leaders to understand the value that exists to truly support the portfolio and business teams that need the structure to grow.
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Maybe announcing some more exit of SVPs
I call B S on the major announcement.
big big announcement on Tuesday, something going down at the twins today and tomorrow. Lot of headless frothing at the mouth right now
Sourcing org is such a mess now. For people working from plant, we do not know who is responsible for what? The suppliers are all laughing at 3M. What a joke.
It’s not implied. It’s reality. Stop whining.
I agree that sourcing has collapsed. Not only did Kelly bysouth do a hack job of what was there, those left are the most incompetent. Completely lost and clueless. And Kelly thinks she has done a great job! We should see her exit soon.
When will BB start his first cut? Perhaps mandatory back to office?
There are many functional roles that were severely cut and unable to function. Take for example Sourcing. They claimed they have insufficient resource and asks plants to take up some roles. Similarly for BSC. They pushed back some responsibilities back to plant. Next is CI. After laying off the entire LSS, now they ask plant to take up CI. The list goes on. Those working in plants are p*ssed off.