John L. Garrison, Jr. - Terex Corp.
Management
Thanks, Ann, and you're absolutely correct. The strategic sourcing initiative is critical as part of our Execute to Win strategy. We are executing the process. As we said, we've moved through the process now where we're – with Wave 1. We're in the supplier award decision process and in final negotiations. The good news is the savings are in line with our expectation. From a timing standpoint, as we've said previously, it is taking us a little bit longer. More suppliers engaged in the process. And we're seeing that more parts are transitioning to suppliers, not necessarily new suppliers, but parts transitioning. So, the supplier transition process is going to take a little time. The good news is this is fairly substantial reduction in the number of suppliers that we're using. So, that's going to clearly help as we move forward. In terms of quantifying it, Ann, I think the best way I'd do that right now is if you look at where we are today, we're at about 7% operating margin, and in Investor Day, we said we're going to drive to 10% operating margin. Just kind of rough math today to get to that point, I'd say about half of that is we've got to drive the improvements in our Cranes business and drive the operating margin improvements in Crane business. The other half of that has to come from us executing our strategic sourcing initiative. So in terms of the quantification, that's the way I look at it. We're at 7%, we committed to 10%, that's where we've got to drive to. Half of it comes from driving improvement in Cranes, which we absolutely have to do. The other half comes from strategic sourcing and executing our strategic sourcing program. And Wave 1, we'll begin to see – as we've said, we're – this has been the investment phase. Modest savings are starting to show up in 2018. Clearly, they're going to show up in 2019, 2020 and beyond. And as I said, we kicked off Wave 2 in June here in Redmond, so we'll begin to see Wave 2 in the back half of 2019 and into 2020. That's how I'd quantify it at this point in time. As we get further into it, Ann, we may refine it, but I think that gives people a good – kind of a good understanding of what we've got to deliver to hit those commitments that we've made.