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Restructuring Charges and Other Costs Associated with Acquisitions and Cost-Reduction/Productivity Initiatives (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2025
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Schedule of Acquisitions and Cost-Reduction/Productivity Initiatives
The following summarizes costs and credits for acquisitions and cost-reduction/productivity initiatives:
Three Months EndedNine Months Ended
(MILLIONS)September 28,
2025
September 29,
2024
September 28,
2025
September 29,
2024
Restructuring charges/(credits):    
Employee terminations$124 $25 $360 $1,009 
Asset impairments111 111 328 177 
Exit costs
82 96 145 
Restructuring charges/(credits)(a)
237 217 784 1,331 
Transaction costs(b)
— — — 
Integration costs and other(c)
49 96 162 333 
Restructuring charges and certain acquisition-related costs286 313 945 1,669 
Net periodic benefit costs/(credits) recorded in Other (income)/deductions––net
(6)(74)
Inventory write-offs––recorded in Cost of sales
33 — 33 — 
Additional depreciation––asset restructuring recorded in our condensed consolidated statements of operations as follows(d):
    
Cost of sales10 11 
Selling, informational and administrative expenses— — 
Research and development expenses— — 
Total additional depreciation––asset restructuring
11 16 
Implementation costs recorded in our condensed consolidated statements of operations as follows(e):
    
Cost of sales26 30 72 95 
Selling, informational and administrative expenses26 13 46 77 
Research and development expenses53 33 116 66 
Total implementation costs105 75 234 238 
Total costs associated with acquisitions and cost-reduction/productivity initiatives$423 $398 $1,150 $1,930 
(a)Primarily represents cost-reduction initiatives. Amounts associated with our Biopharma segment: (i) charges of $240 million for the three months ended September 28, 2025 (including charges of $117 million for our Manufacturing Optimization Program and charges of $107 million for our Realigning our Cost Base Program), (ii) charges of $451 million for the nine months ended September 28, 2025 (including charges of $669 million for our Realigning our Cost Base Program and credits of $295 million for our Manufacturing Optimization Program), (iii) charges of $141 million for the three months ended September 29, 2024 (primarily including charges for our Realigning our Cost Base Program) and (iv) charges of $1.2 billion for the nine months ended September 29, 2024 (including charges of $1.3 billion for our Manufacturing Optimization Program and credits of $69 million for our Realigning our Cost
Base Program). For the nine months ended September 28, 2025 and September 29, 2024, Employee terminations include revisions of estimates of previously recorded accruals for severance benefits, driven in large part by higher-than-expected voluntary attrition.
(b)Represents external costs for banking, legal, accounting and other similar services.
(c)Represents external, incremental costs directly related to integrating acquired businesses, such as expenditures for consulting and the integration of systems and processes, and certain other qualifying costs.
(d)Represents the impact of changes in the estimated useful lives of assets involved in restructuring actions.
(e)Represents incremental costs directly related to implementing our non-acquisition-related cost-reduction/productivity initiatives.
Schedule of Components and Changes in Restructuring Accruals
The following summarizes the components and changes in restructuring accruals:
(MILLIONS)Employee
Termination
Costs
Asset
Impairment
Charges
Exit CostsAccrual
Balance, December 31, 2024(a)
$2,046 $— $74 $2,120 
Provision
360 328 96 784 
Utilization and other(b)
(724)(328)(15)(1,067)
Balance, September 28, 2025(c)
$1,682 $— $155 $1,836 
(a)Included in Other current liabilities ($1.7 billion) and Other noncurrent liabilities ($437 million).
(b)Other activity includes adjustments for foreign currency translation that are not material to our condensed consolidated financial statements.
(c)Included in Other current liabilities ($1.3 billion) and Other noncurrent liabilities ($532 million).