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What's the worst decision higher management has made? Do you have a "what were they thinking" situation?
Asked by Spaz, the cynical
Here's an example of a horrible decision: One of the lines, company "ABC", just came out with new pricing - effective January 1, 2009. Since that date, ABC stamped all purchase orders with the wrong pricing as "honoring the old pricing" and to see us for a new price list. Many dealers were upset by this since they didn't receive new price lists from us, or even know that ABC's pricing was changing in the first place. To further the problem - we didn't receive new price lists, either. ABC didn't send us the new master price list until January 30 - a confidential, "all price levels" list that we can't hand out. ABC still hasn't sent us the new price lists to hand out to our dealers. Needless to say, we have many irate phone calls every day about ABC's stupidity. I agree wholeheartedly with the dealers, but I can't very well say that... Pricing should be available before any change goes into effect.
Asked by Spaz, the cynical
Here's an example of a horrible decision: One of the lines, company "ABC", just came out with new pricing - effective January 1, 2009. Since that date, ABC stamped all purchase orders with the wrong pricing as "honoring the old pricing" and to see us for a new price list. Many dealers were upset by this since they didn't receive new price lists from us, or even know that ABC's pricing was changing in the first place. To further the problem - we didn't receive new price lists, either. ABC didn't send us the new master price list until January 30 - a confidential, "all price levels" list that we can't hand out. ABC still hasn't sent us the new price lists to hand out to our dealers. Needless to say, we have many irate phone calls every day about ABC's stupidity. I agree wholeheartedly with the dealers, but I can't very well say that... Pricing should be available before any change goes into effect.
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Yes, I work with a non-profit organization and due to economy...we have laid off alot of people that are needed to do daily tasks, but because those tasks have been put on others, and still deadlines to meet, it has caused some major problems that upper management hasn't really seen just yet, and when they do, it will make others upset and may caused friction with business. I wish I could speak up and show how we could increase our finances and where we need to cut down...but I am the lowest man on the totem poll. I guess it happens.
Yes, I work with a non-profit organization and due to economy...we have laid off alot of people that are needed to do daily tasks, but because those tasks have been put on others, and still deadlines to meet, it has caused some major problems that upper management hasn't really seen just yet, and when they do, it will make others upset and may caused friction with business. I wish I could speak up and show how we could increase our finances and where we need to cut down...but I am the lowest man on the totem poll. I guess it happens.
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To be honest... I'm pretty happy with our management in our company and I can't say that heir making huge mistakes. Maybe that the focus is on point A in 2009 in a such a way that we ignore point B. Because we ignored point B, we should focus more on point B in 2010, so that point A becomes an issue again. For example: we should focus on service level so that we forget (not really) about the cost factor. The next year, we should focus on the cost aspect, and then the service levels will go down.
Answered by Chris N
Answered by Chris N
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