What happened to the prior thread on Supplier Readiness team?! It’s a terrible department, dysfunctional, and all the team members are unhappy! M.T doesn’t seem happy at all and probably wore out (the Sr Director) HW needs to pay their bills on time, and stop trying to find so many new suppliers. Management doesn’t listen, and it’s an overall sh**y department! Hv to update my resume with urgency, because our numbers look bad, and the overall process is just plain DMB. There is no way this department stays open another year! I suppose it will change its name and create a new department, with the same BS.
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With the ever evolving landscape, not one organisation remains the same. Planning to retire doing the same thing over and again. No chance. Prepare to dance and sing to a different tune several times over till your last days in this company hoping you still have a chair to sit on when the music stops
Can someone enlighten me of what this group actually does besides picking up their cellphone to hound the suppliers to deliver quicker and more?
They just hired another vp to their ranks. Heck, I envy this team for all the non-work that they do and yet a team of highly decorated, paid individuals.
Oh how about people new to the department, getting thrown work from other team members, and the boss doesn’t know said new people are doing the abusers work, because the abusers never said they were sending their work to other people. Tell the boss, that the abusers are sending u work and they won’t help with questions when you ask for clarification or help . Abuser making it seem like they will help new people, but it’s a lie to make the boss think they’re helping the team, when they’re not. Abusers have less work and able to assist boss with work to make themselves look good, and the only way they’re assisting the boss is because they sent their workload secretly to new people and making themselves look good! They get praised by the boss for completing their work, but in reality, the work was done by the new people and the boss refuses to believe it or not paying attention. Su-ky team! Yuck
Couldn’t agree more with FutureSh$tter.
First it was called Project xxxx and then labeled as Supplier Transformation that hosted a whole bunch of folks from every department/ function and now the SRT. Its amazing how names and titles are changed so frequently for the same objective. Its like some merry-go-round only with different tunes.
It isn’t sustainable nor appreciated as the folks do the same thing over and constantly bogs the sites down with requests for never ending information and routing process. But, the end obiective of making our suppliers deliver on-time for the right price is never qchieved
You learn to swim along, but d*mn you eventually get tired of the dysfunction! Especially when you have everyone thinking they’re a Chief! In others business, and passing along work to others, because they think other people don’t do any work, and have absolutely no idea what the other persons workload is. Terrible management! You tell them what’s wrong and they don’t understand what you mean!
Its flavor of the month (this case flavor of the year).... Its a cyclical Honeywell thing... Some "leader" sells the idea to ALT and they buy into it. A department is stood up, people are re-orged, hired, promoted... Unrealistic metrics and made up processes, without any relevant knowledge, experience or applicability are being stuffed down everybody's throat... Eventually, the promised land is never realized because reality is complete opposite of expected. in general, these departments live for 5 to 7 years... First 2-3 years are golden days - everything is good, metrics are green - all levels comply. next 2-3 years are spent stretching and fudging metrics due to realization that things are falling apart.... Last 1-2 years constant churn of people in charge of the flavor of the month and jumping ship... And then bo-m, major re-org, people fired - New Flavor of the Month.....
There are plenty of examples, that many have leaved through..... Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (NPD group not the Manufacturing) - stood up in 2010 (or around) gone in 2017/2018.
Flawless Launch (with APQP) - Started in 2015, Gone in 2022....
and this goes on and on....
Just learn how to swim and play along.....