I left SLB last year during layoffs. Heard from current inmates at SLB that SAP X2 went live which is so bad in UK that one of the Product Centre will be closed if they don't get their act together. Is this true?
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SHTC is run by new management who are just like rest, absolutely clueless they are running the place into the ground, still top heavy while the company struggles to get to grips with this awful SAP system. SAP has been in place 3 months now and some of it is still a mystery to most of its employees!!
If they put as much effort into SAP System as they do over the covid policy's at Schlumberger, they might start to make progress with this terrible SAP system but I doubt it very much!
Good luck to all employees
I think you will need it!
At SHTC people were assigned just any random trainings for SAP but were not allocated time to do these trainings. When management saw that percentage of training complete box is low they removed useful trainings to increase the completion percentage score. Worst management for cr-p deployment and zero leadership.
SAP is a complete shambles. It is non-intuitive and exceptionally difficult to use. I hear that even managers are giving up with it. I also am told that the staff (majority) who cannot fathom it due to a sheer lack of training, are being bullied by the few who can sort of use SAP. The blame game has already started. It is no surprise that a center manager is nowhere to be seen and has gone to ground.
SAP deployments have been pretty bad. The latest X2 had the benefit for an extra year but the deployment team wasted that in counting their inflated salaries and ultimately went live with a sh-t product.
SAP is about the best thing we have going. For all of PK’s massive shortcomings, he did correctly read the tea leaves on digitization. We are out ahead of our competition who are scrambling to catch up. OFS has become commoditized, so efficiency is going to be the key to success. In spite of the whining that some people are doing, SAP has brought a great deal of value to the businesses where it has been delivered. Change can be hard, but is necessary if we are to survive.
you could say its SAPping the life out of people.......
Whoever introduced Schlumberger to this PoS, aka, SAP, wants publicly rogering at dawn.
I'll bet every cent I have that there will not be an article with open comments on the home page.
SAP is destroying Schlumberger. One location at a time. Any caring manager will call a stop to this but there isn't any such person in Schlumberger.
The new location manager at SHTC is hoping that things will settle down and then he will come out. No leading from the front. SAP training was delayed, irrelevant and ineffective and yet SHTC went ahead with it creating wellbeing issues for staff. They have done it for their PIPs while we won't get any bonus
SAP has set back SHTC 20 years. Complicated, unwieldy and time consuming. It really is a programme from the 1990s. Staff have had no meaningful training and are all floundering. This is the worst initiative ever and whoever brought this horror story to SHTC, deserves sacking. The new building manger keeps hidden away and staff are utterly demoralised. Final nail in the rotten coffin.
" These people have worked there for many years resulting in them being made totally unemployable outside of SLB."
So TRUE
After working for Schlumberger's major competitor for 19 years, I was transferred to our yard in Laredo, Mex--er, Texas (the absolute WORST place I ever had worked, followed closely by Houma, LA., and after <6 months in the s**thole known as Laredo, I quit, and went and got a job outside the oilfield. At the first dealership, the first question the service manager asked me was "What's a Halliburton", followed by, "You certainly have moved around a lot".
Anyhow, after being employed as a John Deere "technician" for 3 years, I was able to go back overseas, and finished out my career with a total of 38 years.
Lesson learned was that 99 percent of those in the real world, DO NOT have a clue as to what life in the oil field is like, or what we do to make a living. And also, at least overseas, we did NOT have to put up with ALL OF THE BS, that was SOP here in the United States, as far as meeting after meeting, after meeting (and these were BEFORE you even left the yard) and the other never ending BS that made life miserable.
Lesson #2 was that when Schlumberger comes up with some policy, Halliburton WILL copy it, no matter how inane it is, and Halliburton's 'management' and HR will trumpet its virtues.
Very surprised SHTC is still open, no initiative, useless and ineffective management supported by jaded staff just waiting to retire or to be made redundant. These people have worked there for many years resulting in them being made totally unemployable outside of SLB.
After benefitting from buying Camco and with it the market advantage of the Powerdrive RSS drilling tool, little or no new innovation has taken place since, the steady decline of this product centre has now accelerated rapidly, all the staff with marketable skills have left for better run companies .
SAP deployment has been a disaster. If only they had rolled out to a product centre in US first, learnt lessons and used that for deployments outside UK
SHTC will close with or without SAP. The center manager has short term vision as they are assigned for short term only. Some people in other roles are holding their positions till retirement.