COMET and SAP ERP support?

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Whats the story with Mercks COMET and SAP ERP support staff now that the merger has been announced? Is this department undergoing a review? Any cuts planned?

Any info would be appreciated.
 




I am curious as to why you would say that? SAP support is a very expensive thing to outsource and the service levels are usually below par when compared to in house support.

All that being said, I take it there is no current push to eliminate these positions? At least not yet?
 


Why would they even think about eliminating these positions 4 months prior to go live in US? The Shering-Plough merger isn't even finalized - won't be till Oct - and there certainly won't be any staffing changes/integrations until next year at the earliest.
 


COMET cencelled

I heard COMET has been cancelled for the most part. Some implementations that are close to completion will be carried through but for the most part it has been put on ice.
 


COMET 3.0 is going forward as scheduled worldwide
COMET 2.1A has been added to the schedule for late this year

COMET 2.0B US implementation has been moved to first quarter

COMET 4.0 and above... who knows...
 








COMET missed its targets three years in a row, the program is almost 3x the original budget -- when is the madness going to stop! A CIO in another pharma was fired when the SAP project went a mere $50M over budget!
 




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COMET missed its targets three years in a row, the program is almost 3x the original budget -- when is the madness going to stop! A CIO in another pharma was fired when the SAP project went a mere $50M over budget!
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SAP is a complete nightmare and total disaster. The money you have to sink into it is unreal. Just wait until your company is all set up with SAP and dependant on it, then SAP and IBM will start the pressure to switch DB platforms to DB2. SAP will tell your IT leadership that Oracle is no good and will be decertified soon. SAP and IBM are like hit men on corporate budgets.
 


This project is a total disaster and there will never be an ROI. The total spend is reaching 1 Billion dollars and there are only two countries implemented -- and they have real issues. SBS support is lacking, they don't have seasoned individuals, they are a bunch of kids. Scalet really needs to get his head in the game and get some professionals engaged who know what needs to be done to ensure all control over the financial records is not losts.

IT an SBS don't communicate and have opposing views on what will be delivered and when it will be delivered. Business is taking a step back in processing efficiencies and effectiveness of key controls.
 


The SP merger gave Scalet an opportunity to change it up and improve his organization's ability to actually execute on these strategies. He maintained the status quo and blew it....
 


Where is the accountability over the project when you spend almost $1 billion dollars and have virtually nothing to show for it. I suppose they will make a scapegoat out of the consulting company and some poor low level individual. Scalet should be held to account for what was invested and when will the results be delivered. Appears the plan is to roll out an out of the box SAP with very little functionality. Efficiencies and end user experience appears to be out of scope. Was the business really engaged and was the input they gave valued, understood and incorporated? What do we really expect considering Scalet's legacy at IP, same story different company.

I guess time will tell if Dick will hold his redubbed chuckles as stewards over this sunk investment and require delivery of a solution capable of capturing the value of the HUGE investment.

Dick will retire next year and surely the new CEO will clean house and maybe there will be a chance to get it right, unfortunately more money will be sunk and the timelines will continue to slip slide. As an employee and stockholder I am disgusted with the gross lack of stewardship and proper management.
 


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Where is the accountability over the project when you spend almost $1 billion dollars and have virtually nothing to show for it. I suppose they will make a scapegoat out of the consulting company and some poor low level individual. Scalet should be held to account for what was invested and when will the results be delivered. Appears the plan is to roll out an out of the box SAP with very little functionality. Efficiencies and end user experience appears to be out of scope. Was the business really engaged and was the input they gave valued, understood and incorporated? What do we really expect considering Scalet's legacy at IP, same story different company.

I guess time will tell if Dick will hold his redubbed chuckles as stewards over this sunk investment and require delivery of a solution capable of capturing the value of the HUGE investment.

Dick will retire next year and surely the new CEO will clean house and maybe there will be a chance to get it right, unfortunately more money will be sunk and the timelines will continue to slip slide. As an employee and stockholder I am disgusted with the gross lack of stewardship and proper management.
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I am continually baffled about what Dick Clark sees in this guy. What has he done? If you speak to people in IT at Merck they'll pretty much all tell you the same thing. Scalet is in way over his head; yet, for some reason he's permitted to spend, spend, spend with no results or accountability. When will he get his severance package so Merck can move beyond his inconsequential tenure? Heck - for all we know that's what he's counting on.

He cycles through the same set of leadership (pretty much a good old boys club with only 1 woman among them). What is it they say about why would you expect a different outcome if you don't change the play book? Scalet has been on the same play book for at least 5 years now with the same 5 man roster. It's so obvious.

Move on, Merck.
 


Hey, what's a mere billion when you can spend tens of billions for a system with 174 user total, with a peak concurrent user count of 19? Thermonuclear level incompetence. Scalet's billion is chump change compared to this.

UK is a dying culture. So is Merck.
 




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looks like IBM is doing such a good job implementing SAP at Merck, that perhaps they will be rewarded with the SAP consulting partner job at Pfizer!! go figure!
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will the people who set burned be called "saps" in the same way people who got burned in the failed clinical trials CRISP project were "crispy critters?"
 





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