Thread regarding 3M layoffs

There is no vision with this

Peter Gibbons is listening to this Outsource group named the Kearny Group on making cuts to manufacturing plants. He honestly has no idea how bad he is destroying value and capacity. Mike Roman isn't leading sh-t and would not know what leadership is without hiring some consultants on how to think or reading a book. This CEO has wasted more damn money on consultants and conferences, and useless golf tournaments than all leadership teams combined. I understand that 2023 is going to be a tough year from Financials perspective but this is terribly short sighted to start gutting the plants. Why Gut manufacturing plants when you have three times as many managers than you need with Spinco and 3M Center, honestly and layers upon layers of fat and overhead. Honestly they would not know how to measure KPI, productivity from the leadership team if a frozen fish hit them up side the head. You cannot outsource all work or move it all to Costa Rica even if you save a few pennies. At some point 3M is still a material science company that needs to supply its own products. If these bozos would actually invest in some real equipment and automation, these cuts would make sense but we dulling apart sh-t everywhere you look, and beyond dated production lines They will not even buy automated slitters, and rely on outsource company's and pay through the nose for all the die cutting, and slitting needs. There is no vision with this. Leadership never looks in the mirror.

Originally posted by @pew+1kJOPTc2.


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How much did this latest round of consultants cost?

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Post ID: @4cxi+1kMuy1sS

The real question is why they keep guys like Hammes who were the one that broke things to begin with. Now he gets to break international…

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Post ID: @3lsr+1kMuy1sS

3M can't even manage its own businesses, but somehow they're going to become an e-commerce/retailer now? Good lord.

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Post ID: @1svk+1kMuy1sS

3M is signaling its intent to sell direct to customers via an online platform. Our product portfolio focuses on consumer goods, perfect fit for online business model.

Cutting out the middleman (Staples, Office Max, Target, Pep Boys, etc) will free billions in green margin dollars, not red 6 sigma dollars.

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Post ID: @1cct+1kMuy1sS
  1. Tireman Gibbons knows he is on a 3 to 5 year mission and will be cut loose when Mike or monish needs a fall guy. He will get a megamillion buyout.
  1. His experience at Starbucks etc is that he know when to leave before all of the cr-p hits the fan from his bone head decisions. The next person after him gets blamed. That is his transferable skill.
  1. I've tracked OEE, variances, etc for years and years. Here we are 23 years into the 21st century, 3M should be able to AUTOMATICALLY extract that info without telling the plants to report it manually. Even Starbucks is smarter than 3M in that regard. But then again, wasn't Advance 3M supposed to revolutionize our data systems?
  1. Tireman was hired because a) he must be a great BSer, b) as someone else posted earlier the previous EO 3M leaders were incompetent nincompoops, c) monish convinced Mike that he needed to hire an out of the box thinker to "fix" EO, d) anyone who was competent at a 3M competitor to fill the role likely reads this website and knows what a cluster eff 3M has become, and e) the company is likely to be forced into Chapter 11 in two years. Gibbons is an old fa-t who could care less.
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Post ID: @1zuj+1kMuy1sS

Was PG really the best person they could find?

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Post ID: @1plg+1kMuy1sS

Wonder what transferrable skills set that PG can bring over from his previous companies of Tire shop and Starbucks?

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Post ID: @ato+1kMuy1sS

PG is implementing so much data tracking for the plants. People in the factories have to report COPQ, production variances, OEE, yields, unit costs, inventories, on a micro basis. Wonder if we will truly grow, when there is so much focus on costs controls

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Post ID: @pkz+1kMuy1sS

Saw the 2023 SAFE budgets to the plants have been cut tremendously. Certainly no plans for any upgrades or improvements by Tireman.

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