Management Decision
Management Decision
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I just need a place to rant.
I had just returned from a trip to discuss and recommend a DCS system in a plant. I presented the reasoning to use one over the other. It is pretty much the company standard DCS that we've been using for the last 7 years. Standards have been built, graphics are all the same, etc. The plant loved the idea as well as the main engineering office.
I return and get an email that says upper management decided to use another DCS vendor.
I strongly suspect that upper management has become 'bought' from the other DCS vendor/distributor. Probably not the correct phrase, but in some way in cohorts with them.
Can't prove it, but it really stinks.
What to do now?
I had just returned from a trip to discuss and recommend a DCS system in a plant. I presented the reasoning to use one over the other. It is pretty much the company standard DCS that we've been using for the last 7 years. Standards have been built, graphics are all the same, etc. The plant loved the idea as well as the main engineering office.
I return and get an email that says upper management decided to use another DCS vendor.
I strongly suspect that upper management has become 'bought' from the other DCS vendor/distributor. Probably not the correct phrase, but in some way in cohorts with them.
Can't prove it, but it really stinks.
What to do now?
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RE: Management Decision
To be honest this can be quite legitimate - if the second vendor is keen to expand their customer base they may well make an offer that can't be ignored.
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RE: Management Decision
I believe that SAP realized that it was loosing hte race and must have offered a real good deal. In the end (as far as I know) we stick with SAP.
RE: Management Decision
Applying logic:
system complications --> need for engineer(s)
need for engieer(s) --> $$$ and not getting laid off
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"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
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RE: Management Decision
Do your job as well as you previous assignment. Don't fret too much over "why" management does what it does.
Just do the job they pay you to do.
Charlie
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RE: Management Decision
Perhaps the plant is being sold and as part of the deal your managment has agreed to install a new DCS of the new owners choosing.
Perhaps as has been mentioned the new vendor bought the job.
Perhaps there is a contracting strategy to give your current vendor some competition in order to get them to negotiate other work.
Perhaps the contracting strategy is simply to share the wealth in order to keep the other vendors willing to bid your work. If I never get a job from company ABC why would I continue bidding, especially in this environment where everyone has too much work as it is.
Maybe there is another move in the works such as ERP program or something that interfaces better with the new DCS company, and this is the beginning of a new standard DCS.
-The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!
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Ed
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