Knowing that the ELT is all eyes on this thread, let's make a list why Cargill is do hard to do business.... I will kick it off by saying we are never willing to be competitive in the search for growing volumes but only expect our customers to pay more for the services they don't even use, now what's next?
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They are also tough to get your money from. 60 days
ELT, do you want to become the next "Sears"?
If not, develop a method for employees to report ridiculously manual process steps that exist for reasons that have been long forgotten. Then actually follow up and address these issues!
I find these town halls difficult to understand. I'm no stupid. I have a post gradute in engineering. The executive speak and words that many of us dont understand. Im not saying d-mb it down but use normal words or dont say it at all.
ELT, you are not smarter then us so stoo speaking down to people in your towmhalls. You sound artificial, beause you are
Everything you say is rehearsed, buzzwords, word salad. Oh and keep doubling down in your discriminatory dei goals and practices. There are far more still working for you than you realize who have had enough of the dei hires. Btw, women are not "diverse". Stop treating us that way in your metrics. The great resignation will happen this year...youll see...
Oh, I’ll go next! Hi 👋🏻 ELT, hope you enjoying our thread! Maybe you will actually learn something here if you pay close attention.
We just heard the ELT speak about modernization and yet for the past 2 years my business function received $0 technology investment. I have a team that is over 100 people doing work that is directly touching our customers. What other “modern companies” can do in minutes takes my teams days to do manually. And when we spent many hours building a solid business case for new technology, with a solid ROI and payback, we are told no. Meanwhile, millions have been sunk into useless technology for other teams that sits idle. And the icing on the cake is my function for many businesses was the one most impacted with 2030. Brilliant!!!
Remember when we expanded Plant B to supplement Plant A’s production, but Plant B’s expansion was built too small and couldn’t match the Plant A volume, then we closed Plant A? KISS that Volume goodbye!!!
Lol. Literally worked with a brand new site that was built. It was differentiated from our competitors in the region, a true marvel and they put no system in to track inventory, production. The team worked long hours stringing together hundreds of spreadsheets to replicate what a basic erp could do. You can imagine how their customers were serviced and what employee morale was like.
We went to a lot of effort to put together a business case but the consensus was we can't believe the value case until we have real data. Aka let's see how badly we can treat our customers and then we will be able to persuade leaders to invest!
I've seen this pattern replicated over and over and over again.
We don’t even have tools or technology to help our teams tell customers about supply and/or demand problems before it’s a problem. With appropriate and modern tools, we could actually tell them
days or weeks in advance their order wouldn’t be available but we don’t even know that until the truck, railcar, etc show up to load.
And dont tell me this is in the grand plan. Modern tools and technology should be a right, not something our teams have to beg for. Could you imagine getting money from the bank to build a house but the builder didn’t include the piping and electricity cost? Instead you have to make a case to the bank for why the house is probably useless without those things. That’s how we treat technology, we keep growing our asset footprint but don’t have the tools to even understand the optimal way to produce, store and ship our products.