Cargill IT (now called DT&D Digital Technology & Data) has been laying off in late 2023 and now into 2024 as they continue their re-organization that has lasted over a year and a half and counting. They seem to be taking the approach of doing a dozen here, a dozen there so far. CIO Justin Kershaw retired 2 years ago and the new CIO and leadership team are completely in over their heads unfortunately.
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These large ERP projects were always a problem. The money spent on making non SAP systems try to work with SAP was the unraveling. That and having more project managers making color progress charts the people available to do the work was the worst. Leadership should take a look at the PMO structure before anything else. I was on many projects where the day was spent on making colorful status slides for guess what? Another set of PMOs to discuss guess what? Budget! lol it was one comedy after another. In the mean time we had third party workers who would have to work 16-18 hrs a day , weekends etc to get all the work done. I feel bad for them but go for laid off.
These so called project managers in IT are useless. They run several large projects at the same time. One project will have ten people when they need thirty the next will have fifty when they need ten. On top of that they will sink in money on foolish systems to blend in with SAP and try to interface to it and it never works. They have literally ten project manager or people in charge with a different title managing a handful of consultants who do all the work. There were so many consultants from every firm imaginable but only some of them were good. There were several great consultants that were contractors that were amazing, but when budgets got cut they all left and the business was left to do everything on their own. Now they want to shift to Atlanta. For what? How will that save costs? Useless leadership , useless CIO who does not know how get goes on in the trenches.
They’re trying to move all IT to CR or Atlanta as part of a cost-savings play and make it look like CIO’s failure to address runaway ERP costs and other poor investments is the rank-and-file’s fault. The other shoe(s) are coming in hot.
Massive round of layoffs today at Cargill again! Keeps happening.
Town Hall meeting has leadership talking about how excited they are about the upcoming transformation (RIFs) -They think this roundtable is a morale boost from their twisted perspective. Everyone else is waiting for the other shoe to drop.
How many offshore resources are being let go ?