The problem is MF is not technjcal enough to understand the problem. DJ knows the buzz words and acts as though he architected SAP..
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The Accenture Basis team under DJ acts like they own the entire landscape—there’s little room for collaboration, and it’s frustrating to see even someone as seasoned and diplomatic as EJ playing along. DJ’s leadership style is outdated and stifling—time for retirement or a reality check. RG talks more than delivers, and Matt needs to stop pretending the rift doesn’t exist.
Goes live when Accenture says so.
Working hard if you're still ineffective is not an excuse. The vendors sure share alot of the blame but Nike hired them and they work for Nike at the end of the day. Failing to deliver is just as bad as failing to hold that cohort to account. Not suggesting any of the rank and file in SEC should suffer but directors on up should have jobs on the line in regards to time and quality. You're being well compensated and won't be finding the same sweet ride anywhere else.
Nike is not the only company struggling with a migration to SAP S/4 HANA. In my opinion, SAP has been deceptive at best in their sales, and their issues have extended out to integrators like ACCN and their cloud partners.
"According to a recent Horváth study, more than 60% of companies experience deviations in budget, schedule, and result quality during S/4HANA migration."
"According to the study, projects are taking an average 30% longer than originally planned. Only 8% of companies that have completed the transition to S/4HANA did so on schedule. Of the 200 companies surveyed, only 37 have completed their migration to S/4HANA; the majority (57%) are still mid-transformation."
"Nearly two-thirds (65%) of companies also identified severe to very severe quality deficiencies after completing the migration."
https://www.cio.com/article/3851772/sap-users-struggle-with-s4-hana-migration.html
I'm a Nike FTE that has been working on various SEC related projects for over 5 years now. While I can agree with some of the frustrations expressed regarding the vendors (not just Accenture, but SAP and Microsoft as well), there are dozens of Nike employees that have been working their butts off to make this program work, giving up weekends and holidays for years now. And a lot of those hard working Nike people were unnecessarily and unfairly laid off last year by the previous leadership regime, despite many of the problems in SEC being the direct fault of the vendors.
As for the "benefits" being mentioned, I'm guessing the reference is about the iPad, Apple watch, and Airpod headphones that some employees got within the SEC program. All of these awards were less than $500 gifts, amounting to tokens of appreciation given out over the past 5 years. There were also some tshirts and sweatshirts, although I never got one of these personally. I call these a "token" gift considering that if an employee is making equivalent of $50 per hour, but they are salaried and get no overtime, if they work an entire weekend just once, they are giving away the equivalent of $800 in pay. If they give up a weekend for SEC just once, that's more than the cost of the basic iPads they were gifting out a couple years ago. And many people were giving up multiple weekends per year, so really, Nike is getting off light with these "benefits" that a small few have gotten. In contrast, I know for a fact that other Nike groups outside of SEC have gotten cool travel experiences to the Olympics, Italy, and Australia in just the past year. Each of these trips cost thousands in T&E per person, which easily dwarfs anything the rank and file Nike FTEs have gotten in SEC.
@vv “I am not getting kickbacks ergo, no one is getting kickbacks. But I’ll ignore the IRS investigations & LT firings that would make my world view uncomfortable”
SEC works holidays and weekends because it is run poorly, full stop.
It continuously under delivers on time, cost, capabilities, and working solutions. It's not about individuals but the rotten org it has been allowed to become as it holds the pin in the grenade for company spending. It has to be done, but it didn't have to be done like this and for longer than any comparable program.
what are these benefits? can you eloborate?
@wg+1jqesj54a why are you mad at another department that has benefits - which by the way, come at the cost of consistently working through holidays and weekends for years in addition to the standard workweek - and not the VPs that run all the other departments that hoard the money for their ACTUALLY frivolous T&E and other things?
@@vv+1jqesj54a - consider ALL the other Nike employees in ALL the other departments that also are working hard and get NONE of the benefits SEC does ...
SEC is just a way to funnel more money to India and bring those useless individuals over here for their free lunch.
What’s disheartening about this thread is how disrespectful it is to the individuals working on SEC day in and day out. Please have some respect for your fellow co-workers rather they are Nike employees or from a partner including ACN. I work side by side with these individuals daily, they work evenings/weekends/holidays and do it because it’s what it takes to deliver an ERP transformation. EMEA is not getting delayed, nobody is getting kickbacks from vendors, they are not in it for the free catering. Please channel these toxic comments and energy elsewhere.
The amount of money ACN and SAP are raking in from Nike plus the employees there spend money on such frivolous things and get away with it. Would love to see expense reports tracked there ... but yet it's allowed and just keep bringing in the catering because these fools don't work for free ... failure takes time and money and gifts - contractors and employees getting the gifts is also a HUGE policy violation - again only zero tolerance if they want you gone.
SEC has missed every single milestone and continued to move forward. That recipe for disaster has been followed and delivered 3 piles of cr-p, and ain’t going to change no matter the negative impact. As long as the ‘throw more bodies at it’ mentality exists, will continue to see the downward spiral in quality.
China was on time…nothing since.
Check bank accounts of MF and CF as to how much kick back they received from ACN. That would be a good estimate of how much further it will be delayed.
what else do you expect from DJ, MF, CF. The trio have delivered nothing, but chaos and shower ACN with $$.
So much for MD's cost saving initiatives.
ACN needs to make $$.
It's a Ponzi scheme.
ACN makes more , incompetent leaders get more KB. Cycle goes on.
Anything so that CF can funnel
More money to Accenture.
SEC+ is disorganized and has never hit the go live for any geo. Leadership needs to be shuffled as chaos and no accountability is the standard way if working.