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Operational Efficiency Initiatives
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Operational Efficiency Initiatives
Operational Efficiency Initiatives
During fiscal 2016, we announced operational efficiency initiatives which resulted in severance and employee benefits charges, which were substantially completed by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016; as well as inventory initiatives that were fully completed in the third quarter of fiscal 2016.
Our facilities closure initiative involved the closure of four owned distribution centers, and a corresponding reduction in force of approximately 60 full-time employees. These closures and reductions in force were completed by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2016. A $1.2 million severance and employee benefits charge was recorded in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 in “selling, general, and administrative” expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) at that time, and the corresponding liability for this initiative has been largely paid. A further closure of our Allentown, Pennsylvania distribution facility in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 as part of this initiative was immaterial. This initiative is deemed substantially complete.
Our inventory initiatives included a stock keeping unit (“SKU”) rationalization in local markets during the second and third quarters of fiscal 2016, resulting in the identification of certain less productive SKUs which we decided to discontinue offering. The SKU rationalization initiative was fully completed by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2016.
The following table describes our total expenses recognized as a result of our total operational efficiency initiatives on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the year ended December 31, 2016:
 
 
Fiscal Year Ended 
 December 31, 2016
 
 
(In millions)
Facilities closure initiative:
 
 
Severance and employee benefits
 
$
1.2

Inventory initiatives:
 
 
Cost of sales
 
2.2

Selling, general, and administrative (1)
 
3.6

Total decrease to earnings
 
$
7.0

(1) Primarily comprised of payments for material handling and delivery.