Veritiv reviews

Company lives in the past as all of management is from Xpedx including CEO. They have created a good old boy club and make poor decisions based on smoke and mirrors or friendships rather than keep talented "A" players. Xpedx lost money when owned by International Paper. Veritiv with Xpedx management seems to be headed that way.

Very toxic and "blaming" culture. Upper management does not engage with or listen to anyone other than direct reports. Constant change of strategy, management and priorities. I had 2 bosses that reported to 3 different direct reports to CEO in two years following merger. Distribution is pretty simple concept but current management doesn't seem to be able to grasp the concept. Too often any sale was more important than selling what was in warehouse causing inefficiencies. Also appears to be a push to reduce inventory, including high volume items, causing stock outs To many middle management and not enough actual producers ( sales, customer service, etc.). Since merger synergies have not materialized as promised to Wall Street, as well as decreasing sales YOY, the only way to make numbers look halfway decent is to get rid of human capital. Many of the pre-merger employees with skills with decent, and justifiable, salaries were either run off or let go for younger, lower wage employees. Training was very poor.