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1/29/2025
supply chain is led by Dave for a long time, just a lot of inherent knowledge there. But Dave's done a great job hiring, and we've got some young VPs, really technology forward, that if you were at our conference in July last year, you may have met David Husky. But we've got some really smart people just completely helping us reimagine this, everything from fully automated forklifts to Probably the biggest thing we did is this core distribution center. It's a mile down the road from our Marysville manufacturing plant. All of our fertilizer is distributed out of that, and it's picked up by our retailers. We've saved half a million miles of truck driving over a year between distribution centers. So we've got a really good crew. You'll see more coming out of us in supply chain. That $30 million Jim asked for, I would say the bulk of it probably comes out of supply chain, but it's all going to be based on a foundation of investing in technology, whether it's supply chain, field sales force, et cetera.
I'd also say, Andrew, that the entire corporation is going to contribute. And that's a little bit like let people get back after board meeting and start sharpening their pencils, but there's a lot of teams working right now. This is... I mean, a lot of that – it's not just Nate. Nate has been contributing. When you look at the sort of 400 out, add 100 back into the business, a lot of that's come from the operating side. And, you know, God bless, but that's where a lot of money gets spent. So it's not inappropriate. The corporate's going to participate here too. And we're asking real big questions about who we want to be and how we add value here. So I – listen – Mark can say because he's the most important bean counter and sort of keep the score here. But I don't think that number is scary at all.
Do you? No, not at all. And I think to your point, it will come also at corporate and SG&A. And so some of it might get reinvested, as Jim talked about, in superpowers. Some might drop to the bottom line. I think it just allows us some flexibility as we continue to do our 26 planning, which, you know, we already have started and have been focused on, you know, even while we're in season. So, yeah, we'll all participate in that process. There's plenty of opportunity there. You know, I think there's a lot of technology over the past five, seven years that have allowed us to do our jobs a lot easier and I think get more efficient. I think we've got some good ideas. Thanks. I'll pass it on. Yep.
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