David Shaffer
Analyst · Webber Research. Your line is open.
Yeah. I think, Greg, what’s important to me is that, we have and all the LOBs have extremely good line of sight on what -- what’s driving the backlog and it’s all in the Energy Systems, for example, as Mike noted, it’s tied to very specific network construction initiatives. Our transportation business, it’s really tied to our market penetration with our thin plate pure lead into a very enormous transportation sector. We have had tremendous success in the Class 8 over the road market, reaching the end users, showing the total cost of ownership benefits. So I think that the -- there’s a high degree of strategic alignment of our backlog with our strategic initiatives that we laid out in our Analyst Day some time ago. So we are -- we feel like we are lined up well. And then in Motive Power, for example, as Mike noted, there’s most of the customers wait until just the trucks -- maybe eight weeks to 12 weeks before the truck is supposed to arrive at the dealer. That’s when they ordered the batteries. So, I would say, Andy, most of our backlog in Motive is less than 90 days old. So, I think, in general, we feel extremely good about the quality of our backlog and to your question about getting more of it released, it’s just going to come down to contract manufacturing. So I don’t have that breakdown. Andy, I don’t think we talked about that yesterday. But some portion of that backlog obviously is going to be out of our battery factories and then some portion is going to be out of contract manufacturing. And so the contract manufacturing, I think, we have probably a little bit better ability to flex up as soon as the chips become available. So that’s really a lot of the constraint on the electronics and the contract manufacturing piece. And then on the battery piece, as you know, there is really -- there is only so much we can do out of those big fixed asset type of businesses. So, but we feel extremely optimistic about that and just like you, we look forward to just -- if anything and I said this to Andy yesterday and Mike, we just need stability. That’s what we -- if we have to re adapt to a new level of lead times or cost price, we can do that. It’s just -- it’s this crazy dynamic. I mean just the sequential impact of more than -- really more than $0.50 a share of cost pressures sequentially. It’s just these are unprecedented times, but it too shall pass.