Can we have some solutions?

[anonymous]

I come to this site every now and then to see if there's any valuable information.......I don't know why....

Let's talk about some real problems we would like to see corporate address. How about SAP? It's a real problem. SAP is literally making in difficult to sell. How about inside support in the individual branches? Can we talk about some real problems and possible solutions? I'd like to see my stock come back up. I know fellow employees would too. So let's start a conversation about real issues and ideas to make things better. We have some extremely experienced, SKILLED sales people!!! How can we support them to do what our organization is supposed to do.....SELL???

 

[anonymous]

SAP should run in the background for the warehouse and anybody that wants to use it. We need a program that works with Mac or PC, on and offline. Relying on hotspot or cell phone WiFi is too cumbersome. Bring back the old software system called eMagine Give the sales people the tools they need. There is nothing wrong with multiple tools - sometimes we need to use the website to check stock. Entering an order, solving a problem or doing an equipment or supply quote in an office is NOT a bad thing... especially doing small equipment quotes. It gives you something to refer back to and follow up on. The PD website needs a new fresh look with much better searches. I would be willing to bet bur and diamond sales are way down. Make the search engine able to search partial words. Example: Chlorohexidine. Who really knows how to spell that? Dental rep or dental assistant. - neither can spell.. I would also be interested to see if a monthly vs semi
Monthly specials flier is helping. I doubt it. More equipment publications would also be nice. Each branch needs a website to post events, or have a Facebook / social
Media page with pictures and directions and operating hours. Last - throw some serious cash out to enhance some merchandise promotions and blitz programs.

 

[anonymous]

sell the place for whatever you can and start with a new BOD and someone with the balls to rid the place of its rot left from the gang of 4.

 

[anonymous]

We need a program that works with Mac or PC, on and offline. Relying on hotspot or cell phone WiFi is too cumbersome. Bring back the old software system called eMagine Give the sales people the tools they need.

I agree, but the old software is never going to comeback. I do think we should make some changes to SAP to make it better. Offline is a good place to start. It's so slow it and incredibly frustrating. Corporate, if you're reading, do we have people dedicated and consistently working on SAP to improve it?

 

[anonymous]

sell the place for whatever you can and start with a new BOD and someone with the balls to rid the place of its rot left from the gang of 4.

You need to get counseling. I have confidence in myself and my sales abilities. I have confidence in my team. I can make a difference and do things to improve. You're a pig rolling around in shit.

 

[anonymous]

You need to get counseling. I have confidence in myself and my sales abilities. I have confidence in my team. I can make a difference and do things to improve. You're a pig rolling around in shit.

Your so confident you called them a pig rolling around in shit. Well aren't you special. So if you can improve do so but the poster above was right in one sense, we need to clean house by getting rid of that shit stain Rogan and Killian and move forward with purpose. If SAP is here to stay then fix it already and move on with that too. If your so confident what are you doing trolling on this page? Asking for a friend.

 

[anonymous]

SAP is not going anywhere! The idiot Minnesota Mafia paid over 100M for this dumb thing. They spent our hard earned money on so much crap and where did it lead us?
As far as using this board for constructive ideas and getting management to change things think again Mojambo! Talking to morons like Rogan and Killian will get you nowhere and if you don't believe that you are in a vacuum. Talking to regional managers or branch managers will get you nowhere. Besides its more fun to bash the idiots like Rogan and the other dopes on here than to be constructive.

 

[anonymous]

sell the place for whatever you can and start with a new BOD and someone with the balls to rid the place of its rot left from the gang of 4.

I believe that's exactly the plan. What do you think hiring a Director of Mergers and Acquisitions is about? His role is to learn the business, solicit and review offers from potential buyers, and ultimately "unlock value" for stakeholders. Look at his background. 75% of the companies he's worked for sold out either on his watch or directly thereafter. That's what he does - sell companies. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. We had to implement a resource planning software to even make this business slightly marketable. Albeit barely functioning and almost killing PDCO along the way, that's behind us now. Prepare to watch the window dressing get changed and upgraded in pursuit of a buyer. Let's just hope it's someone with the vision and resources to take us back to being a true industry leader rather than a private equity group looking to pick the bones clean. I for one and optimistic. If you are still reading these posts, then you should be too. Otherwise, we should have jumped ship with the rest of the rats once it was clear we were taking on water.

This is my fight song! Couldn't resist.

 

[anonymous]

I am Competition.
I am reading and laughing.

Falling margins and no lucrative exclusives, I'd walk away as a buyer, or maybe just to take competitor out..

 

[anonymous]

I am Competition.
I am reading and laughing.

Falling margins and no lucrative exclusives, I'd walk away as a buyer, or maybe just to take competitor out..

“Competition” I hope you understand that most of these posts are from former employees. Glad to hear things are going so well for you at your new gig that you frequent an anonymous message board about your old employer. Happy trolling.

 

[anonymous]

i am not one of the so called rats you described. I am a pdco employee who has lived through the great times before the moronic Minnesota Mafia took over. They did so much damage to this company and especially to the loyal employees who helped to build this company to greatness. They took from us and made themselves wealthy. I am disgruntled, I am pissed off and I am in financial distress. Their arrogance destroyed this company and it will never reach the levels it was. I am finally going to leave and join another company that seems to want to grow and who respects their employees. Enough is enough! I have faithfully tried to maintain some sanity here but I am spent. Good bye PDCO.

 

[anonymous]

the fuse was lit when Anderson took over and with his little, useless helpers he ignited the bomb that blew this place up a few years ago. Obviously just a metaphore for just really stupid decisions founded on greed and ego.

The fact that this company continued to dividend vs expand is dumbfounding. Look at Schein now, same industry challenges yet their decisions led to a company that is 5 times bigger than us. We were once on equal standing and they’ve left us in the dust.

Rogen Killian are the two fucksticks left that should get the punt, but then again, nothing will fix this place.

 

[anonymous]

Are you kidding me? How about coming into the 2000’s and learning how to use a computer. I am newer here and all I hear at branch meetings is how great of a company this was and how great things used to be. I got news for’ya old timer, those days are gone for you and your old tired ways. Sorry you actually have to work more than 4 days a week and more than 5 hours a day. Sorry you can’t be home everyday at 3:00 to pick the kiddos up from school. Sorry you have been asked to adapt but refused. You are the biggest group of entitled babies I have ever been around. I am glad things are tough and feel I came in at a great time. Change is good. Too bad you’ve been coddled. And you talk trash about Millenials. Snowflake. Maybe you should leave and get on with your retirements. You’ve been half way there your entire career here. Or. You can take off your depends and put on some pants (not sweats) and do something for a change. Stop reminiscing. The good ol’days are gone. Let’s get on with gettin on!

 

[anonymous]

Are you kidding me? How about coming into the 2000’s and learning how to use a computer. I am newer here and all I hear at branch meetings is how great of a company this was and how great things used to be. I got news for’ya old timer, those days are gone for you and your old tired ways. Sorry you actually have to work more than 4 days a week and more than 5 hours a day. Sorry you can’t be home everyday at 3:00 to pick the kiddos up from school. Sorry you have been asked to adapt but refused. You are the biggest group of entitled babies I have ever been around. I am glad things are tough and feel I came in at a great time. Change is good. Too bad you’ve been coddled. And you talk trash about Millenials. Snowflake. Maybe you should leave and get on with your retirements. You’ve been half way there your entire career here. Or. You can take off your depends and put on some pants (not sweats) and do something for a change. Stop reminiscing. The good ol’days are gone. Let’s get on with gettin on!

Well well well...what we have here is a millenial know-it-all. I would love to know your selling IQ.
It seems all the "dudes" like you sell on price and price alone. You don't have a clue as to what this industry is about. You think you have all the answers when you are still wet behind the ears. I doubt very much if you are able to walk in any of the shoes that we "old timers" have walked in. I will grant you that times have changed but knowledge is the key and that my newbe millenial friend is what dudes like you are lacking. I would put my knowledge and experience up against an arrogant prick like you any day and beat you 100% of the time.

 

[anonymous]

Are you kidding me? How about coming into the 2000’s and learning how to use a computer. I am newer here and all I hear at branch meetings is how great of a company this was and how great things used to be. I got news for’ya old timer, those days are gone for you and your old tired ways. Sorry you actually have to work more than 4 days a week and more than 5 hours a day. Sorry you can’t be home everyday at 3:00 to pick the kiddos up from school. Sorry you have been asked to adapt but refused. You are the biggest group of entitled babies I have ever been around. I am glad things are tough and feel I came in at a great time. Change is good. Too bad you’ve been coddled. And you talk trash about Millenials. Snowflake. Maybe you should leave and get on with your retirements. You’ve been half way there your entire career here. Or. You can take off your depends and put on some pants (not sweats) and do something for a change. Stop reminiscing. The good ol’days are gone. Let’s get on with gettin on!

Hey Rogan....
you were one of the architects of the failure of this company. Now you are pretending you are a millenial? I have been around this company for quite a long time and never saw your name in lights as far as being a sales person or a corporate know it all. You were and continue to be a fake, phony, and a l-o-s-e-r.

 

[anonymous]

Are you kidding me? How about coming into the 2000’s and learning how to use a computer. I am newer here and all I hear at branch meetings is how great of a company this was and how great things used to be. I got news for’ya old timer, those days are gone for you and your old tired ways. Sorry you actually have to work more than 4 days a week and more than 5 hours a day. Sorry you can’t be home everyday at 3:00 to pick the kiddos up from school. Sorry you have been asked to adapt but refused. You are the biggest group of entitled babies I have ever been around. I am glad things are tough and feel I came in at a great time. Change is good. Too bad you’ve been coddled. And you talk trash about Millenials. Snowflake. Maybe you should leave and get on with your retirements. You’ve been half way there your entire career here. Or. You can take off your depends and put on some pants (not sweats) and do something for a change. Stop reminiscing. The good ol’days are gone. Let’s get on with gettin on!

Hey hot shot.....you must not have worked today because your stock went down to 21.60. I guess you didn't close any deals or maybe you were waiting for them to come to you.

 

[anonymous]

Hey hot shot.....you must not have worked today because your stock went down to 21.60. I guess you didn't close any deals or maybe you were waiting for them to come to you.

Just making us more attractive to some buyer who will hopefully clean house of all the Dental management and all of the non-performing reps.

 

[anonymous]

Website looks much better. Improve the search engine within to search partial words and fix the search results so burs and diamonds are listed in order. Create an arm of the website that can work offline. Cellular WiFi is too slow.

Equipment should not be mixed with supplies, parts, old equipment, branch stock and everything else’s in SAP. This is too difficult to navigate. Load pricing into Seismic so we can send a e-brochure and price easily. Put eMagjne back up for equipment quoting until this can take place. Just delete the pricing so people don’t get confused.

Customers having the ability to apply advantage and change credit cards online is a step in the right direction.

Create a separate call in number for reps and customers into tech support accounting, with priority given to customers. Allow reps to use live chat for more than we are using it now for would speed things up.

Back to the basics in the field with consistency and hard work taking care of customers will lead to better sales. Some have lost sight of this so Las Vegas would be a great time to light that fire again. Oh.. and stop sending us so much junk email.

 

[anonymous]

Website looks much better. Improve the search engine within to search partial words and fix the search results so burs and diamonds are listed in order. Create an arm of the website that can work offline. Cellular WiFi is too slow.

Equipment should not be mixed with supplies, parts, old equipment, branch stock and everything else’s in SAP. This is too difficult to navigate. Load pricing into Seismic so we can send a e-brochure and price easily. Put eMagjne back up for equipment quoting until this can take place. Just delete the pricing so people don’t get confused.

Customers having the ability to apply advantage and change credit cards online is a step in the right direction.

Create a separate call in number for reps and customers into tech support accounting, with priority given to customers. Allow reps to use live chat for more than we are using it now for would speed things up.

Back to the basics in the field with consistency and hard work taking care of customers will lead to better sales. Some have lost sight of this so Las Vegas would be a great time to light that fire again. Oh.. and stop sending us so much junk email.

 

[anonymous]

Website looks much better. Improve the search engine within to search partial words and fix the search results so burs and diamonds are listed in order. Create an arm of the website that can work offline. Cellular WiFi is too slow.

Equipment should not be mixed with supplies, parts, old equipment, branch stock and everything else’s in SAP. This is too difficult to navigate. Load pricing into Seismic so we can send a e-brochure and price easily. Put eMagjne back up for equipment quoting until this can take place. Just delete the pricing so people don’t get confused.

Customers having the ability to apply advantage and change credit cards online is a step in the right direction.

Create a separate call in number for reps and customers into tech support accounting, with priority given to customers. Allow reps to use live chat for more than we are using it now for would speed things up.

Back to the basics in the field with consistency and hard work taking care of customers will lead to better sales. Some have lost sight of this so Las Vegas would be a great time to light that fire again. Oh.. and stop sending us so much junk email.

HAHAHAHA - SAP Anderson and his goons are still screwing with us long after they've left. Hard work and no more SAP is what it's going to take. But common sense has not been a strong point of this board and or leadership in general for a very long time. Not since Pete has there been any real leadership. RIP.