Transcript

00:00:01 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Did you wanna, go over anything specific? Or

00:00:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I have been in so many meetings lately. I'll defer to the rest of the team for a few minutes and see did anybody have anything critical?

00:00:12 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
No. I feel like this has been a slow heads down week for most people. I think we're trying to get caught up from a lot of things, and I wish I don't know if Michael knows, but there's there's been a lot of outages internally with systems. So heard we about it. Yeah. Yeah. So we've we've been we've been pretty heads down on a lot of other topics, and this topic included. But I don't have a think we have a ton of updates. Things are going well. I guess maybe just to get you a little bit of info around the IT space. Everything's either installed or on order, so I don't think there's a whole I think the the haggling, if you wanna call it that, over or what to do on certain topics is is kinda died down. The probably next round of that is is to work through the, data retention component and figure out how we're gonna have that conversation. Scott, I don't know if you've had a chance to ponder on how to tackle that.

00:01:08 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I was gonna send that coming update because I had so many meetings yesterday. And I think, Michael, you were on some of those, but we we did have a pretty lengthy discussion on on some of that yesterday, Shawn. So I because I was trying I was pushing to get answers on some of this. But I I think the the main aspect is is we're still notifying Philip, which I think we might do today. Unless we come up with something different today and then let him handle the communication on that side as as we had discussed, I think, in what was it? Last week's meeting? This meeting, maybe? Okay. Does that ring a bell to Yep. Your name? Okay. I was, like, trying to remember. Okay.

00:01:46 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. No. I think that'd be great. We crisscrossed paths yesterday with Jeremy on this topic, and I kinda just steered a little bit further away from it until Phillips aligned. Did you mind telling

00:01:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
us kinda what was he pushing? Okay. Go ahead. I think you're getting there.

00:02:02 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Well, yeah, he wants I was kinda asking, like, when are you gonna send us the hardware? Meaning, the shaper origins that are testing. And he he says that those cannot be available for a week, but the server cannot be available for the week because the compiling needs to happen, but the HITL doesn't need to. So we've kinda shaken that down to we're gonna move that on the vehicle as well. And then we were talking about, okay. And then we kinda got into the server topic, and he has admitted that it makes sense to move the server here. And I was just pointing out that I'd I'd like this to all happen and move and not you know, becomes a UPS of boxes and things. So and then he's like, well, we shouldn't be sending a whole lot. That's where I was just like, it that's fine, but we'll we'll cross that bridge when we when we get there. K. But it's more of a coordinating the shipping for the thirteenth that he just doesn't, which today is the thirteenth, so it's exactly one month.

00:03:12 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. I did confirm that that is the date and, because Michael was able to I I said that was the date in my head, and then Michael confirmed it yesterday. So we we did have all that.

00:03:24 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
But April 13 is the day that is the move. Is that right, Shawn? Is that you're Yeah. Mhmm.

00:03:30 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. That's the long day on their end, to be fair.

00:03:32 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
And I I have a topic related to that. You want me to go ahead

00:03:36 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah.

00:03:36 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
With the move? So so I I'm I'm on the phone with Karen, Christian, and so forth. But so there's as as it turns out Shawn, you're the best person for this. As it turns out, the family, the TTS family, is asking about they they have this view that there's, like, a shaper museum or a shaper oh, you know about it, Shawn. Thank you. Yep. Okay. Yep. So so they're asking if that if if it's possible for us to get that Shaper Museum set up moved to Germany or through maybe through Lebanon move it to Lebanon and then from Lebanon to Germany. Right? Because they wanna add it to the headquarters, the fest yeah. They they wanna add it to the headquarters stuff at Festool. Right?

00:04:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Yeah. And there's alignment on that. This is what you're referring to. This is the history of the Shaper Museum, if you wanna call it that. And it I have not had a single conversation where everyone did not admit this is going to headquarters. It's just a matter of how it's gonna go to headquarters. I don't know. I we can ask. Greg would be the guy to ask, but I think Greg is sending this direct, unless there's a reason why someone would prefer us to do something different. But I think the idea was to pack this in LTL at direct to to Germany.

00:05:04 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Okay. So you got it.

00:05:07 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yep. The the operationalizing of that part is gonna be on Greg, I at least for the moment. He's the one planning that, but we can get that answer.

00:05:17 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Alright. So what I'm what I'm doing is I just took a a screenshot of of that little room, and I'm gonna send it to back to Christian. And I'm gonna say, okay. This is your museum. This is what you're getting. And Greg is gonna operationalize that for us, sending it getting it to Germany in some way. Does that does that make sense to you guys? No surprise. Okay.

00:05:39 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
100.

00:05:40 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
I'll do that I'll do that after the call. The other thing I wanted you guys to know about is March, maybe more for Scott, but maybe, Scott, for you to delegate if you need to. But March 30 Monday, March 30 is, remember, Scott? We had we had a cross functional meeting where we highlighted repair in HR from North America, and then there was some discussion of r and d. Well, the next the next meeting for that will be on March 3 Monday, March 30. And, Scott, I don't see you on this. So I'll forward it to you right now. It's a Adaptex cross functional meeting.

00:06:24 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
K.

00:06:25 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
I don't see yeah. Amity. Oh, yeah. I'm forwarding you to that right now. So the reason why I bring that up is let me share my screen. Okay. So the reason why I'm bringing that up is because the focus on on on that meeting will be to give an update on the repair, update on asset move, update on the go to market strategy, and an update on the r and d. And that's that's gonna feed the steering committee that's gonna happen that week and also the board meeting. So it's timed really well because, because you're gonna get, like, alignment from everyone in Germany and, like, before we actually do all the moves in in April. So the last meeting, this is what, this is what, Pascal prepared. Right? I gave him the template, whatever, but it's just it's at this level. Right? So here are my initiatives. So Pascal will do this again for the end of month. But here are my initiatives. Here's the updates. Here's the status, anything green or red. Here are the key issues, and then here are some of the decisions required and the recommendations and what we need. So the idea of that call is no surprises. Everyone kinda knows what's on there. Mhmm. And there won't be you know, we'll work through it, but the idea would be that, okay. This is what we're doing. And right. So we're gonna do repairs. So, Pascal would be leading repair. So, Scott, who who do you think would, like, present on the asset move piece?

00:08:06 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Let me talk that over with probably Shawn and John and kinda see what we think makes the most sense as far as you could put my name temporarily, but then I'll talk to them because they've kind of been more involved in that process, and and we'll decide. Because I still wanna talk to, like, Gage and and Sean and John and anyone else talking about, like, who's gonna be onsite and who's gonna be doing what and, you know, stuff like that. So

00:08:29 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Okay. Yeah. Casey Casey also talked about Casey onsite. I'm not suggesting he should be at the meeting, but you know?

00:08:34 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
No. Casey will be onsite for sure, but, yeah, trying to decide who who on my side is gonna be tagging in and versus who's not. So

00:08:43 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Okay. So yeah. So that's that's coming down. You guys don't need to worry about it now. But next week or, was it next week? I guess I'm confusing on my yeah. The on Monday the Monday the twenty third Monday the twenty third, they'll you know, we'll say, okay. Well, this meeting's coming up. Everyone start getting ready for it, whatever. And then I'll I'll I'll help you guys do that if you need any. Those are so the Shaper Museum, the meeting, and then, I I also made the point oh, Scott, on project management, I I asked I I made the point that I was gonna talk to Christian about, hey. What's going on in this global site? They are they are using it. They're it's really Sasha in marketing who's really using it. And then, also, Sasha is really using it. Legal's using it. And I I saw your name on a couple of things there, and I told Christian, I said, well, you know, you gotta make sure that Scott knows if people are signing him stuff. But what what I what I would do is, Scott, if you if you look at the legal work stream, if you see your name on stuff and it doesn't make sense, then make it red and put a little note

00:09:58 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
about it or something. Okay.

00:09:58 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Yeah. Start like, put make make your name red and put a little in parentheses next to your name. Put, like, a question mark. Like, I'm not the guy. Like, who's the guy? Right? And then at the next legal meeting, say, hey, guys. There's this legal project management thing that somebody's filling in, but we need to get we need to either delete some of this stuff, or if we're actually using it, delete it or or, you know, update it or decide we're gonna use something else. Right? So and I and I looked at it. I didn't see anybody else's name. I didn't see Matt anywhere. I didn't see I didn't Amity had one for finance and accounting that was old. I don't think she's updating it. So not a big deal. I my personal belief is we know what we need to do. And as long as we're managing initiatives and we're organized and talking, then we should be okay. Right? But I wanted to give you the heads up on that.

00:10:52 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Could we get added to the IT side of that?

00:10:55 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:10:57 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I've seen it through Scott's, I've seen it through Scott's computer, and my name is there, but I can't see the documents to see why my name is there.

00:11:04 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Do me a favor. Do me a favor. Just just send a quick email to Chris Christian, copy me, and and just add the emails of people that you wanted to add to the Adaptex Festool IT thing. Right?

00:11:18 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
So

00:11:18 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Shawn, I'll send the request only because I think there's multiple people that need added to to various things because they they're starting to put people's names there, which is awesome. But that's why I brought it up yesterday, Michael, is people if they put our names there and don't tell us, we don't know.

00:11:33 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
So Yeah. I I made that point to Chris to to Christian too. But the only the only one that is using it seriously is Sasha. Product product and design, have their own version right now. They're not they're not on there.

00:11:47 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
What about marketing? Do you know? Are they using it pretty heavy?

00:11:50 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
I no. I checked the marketing thing. It's still old. Right? But, yeah, marketing for Sasha. Global marketing is using it

00:11:57 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Okay.

00:11:58 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Heavily. Right? But not not Angela. I haven't seen Angela's stuff on there.

00:12:02 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
It looked like IT's using it, but mainly on the global side, Shawn. So I think we'd wanna backfill what we think should be there and and confirm that with their team. And it also will give you an idea of who your contact points are. So

00:12:16 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Ah, on on that point, Scott, thank you for bringing that up. I I mentioned to Christian. You know? Christian said, well, how are things going? And I said, well, they're going okay. I guess if I had to lose any sleep, it would be I don't know what IT is doing in globally. Right? So I don't know who's gonna do who's gonna own the configuration for for, master data, for stuff that's you know, as we move the three p l's, like, who's doing who's doing all that? He said, yeah. Yeah. He says so Christian said, yeah. I I feel the same way. I I need to talk to our, IT folks here in Germany and and and rally the troops and figure all that out. So he's got it on his plate too.

00:12:55 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Scott, does Michael know about Yeah. The PM for that?

00:12:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yes. Catherine Air ArentFox Schiff taking over for Bernd Overmeyer.

00:13:05 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I just don't know. Time she's just part time two days a week is the is the concern we have.

00:13:11 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
So Two half

00:13:12 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
I should say two half days, I believe.

00:13:14 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So so I think we'll have and and, Sean, especially if you're doing the asset move, I think we'll have more opportunities to express, you know, express our our urge urgency in in making sure we're coordinated on globally with systems and stuff.

00:13:34 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. So And

00:13:35 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
then then the the other the fourth item what? I'm sorry?

00:13:37 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Go ahead.

00:13:37 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Gonna tell so Sean and Gage on our side on ops side, I'd like I'll probably pull my ops management team together and just start trying to make sure we have the split of tasks correct and, you know, data wiping machines, you know, gauge. I just come up with the process, so we'll ship them here. You know, you and Dan can it's not a priority except for if we're gonna let employees buy them, then we have to figure out what that looks like. And so I just kinda wanna my ops team to talk through process, and then that way we get it written down. And then the idea would then be as if that kicks up new tasks to make sure they get added to the task list because I don't want them to be dropped. So sorry, Michael. Go ahead.

00:14:15 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Nope. That's it. That's it. The the the one other thing I had, was Scott, I mentioned this to you as as well. Just you know, Sean, great. It was great idea to put the weekly meeting on Wednesday. It'd be great to have something like that for the people that are doing this. You know? And I think all we need is thirty minutes, and I'm happy to tee up the topics and facilitate it if you want so you don't have to think about it much. But I think it's a really good idea to do that. So, Scott, Sean, what do you think? Can we get that back on the calendar?

00:14:50 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Yeah. Sean, I told him that it was just overriding my Amity one on one. So I said we'd have to look for, you know, time and and see what we can make sense and get something back on the calendar. So

00:15:00 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. Yeah. We can look at that.

00:15:02 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Yeah. And I think all we need, Shawn, is thirty minutes. And what I you know, what what we just it's kind of like, anyone have any questions? You know, here's the big topic of the day, the shape or tape. You know, what are you guys doing next week? Who who needs to make connections? Who's who who you know, the the the trucks are coming out next week. Everyone knows what to do. That that sort of meeting. Right? So

00:15:24 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Just kind of, like, overall general alignment across teams. Right? See, I

00:15:28 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
do Yeah.

00:15:28 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Yeah. Okay. It doesn't have to be formal. It just be we get on. We well, we schedule for thirty minutes. But if everyone knows what to do, we we can get off in ten minutes. Right? So perfect. Alright. You guys are smiling. You're thinking, oh, yeah. It's obvious. I told you, Michael.

00:15:46 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
We need it. It is not obvious.

00:15:50 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
You you know you you you guys, Shawn, Gabe, you know your you know your stuff. I'm sure you do that all the time for IT's stuff. You

00:15:58 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
know? Mhmm.

00:16:01 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Anything else you could think of?

00:16:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
I don't think so. I'm gonna send a update out from all my meetings yesterday. I kinda took notes sporadically, so I'll get those out just to because I think it clarifies us a few things. But other than that, I it's gonna be a better email than it would be us talking about it. So

00:16:22 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
one thing just for you, Scott. I did poke around this morning with Stefan. They have a full year planned out of online ecommerce that doesn't have the word shaper in it. Because I he was you know, he's been pushing us to get our stuff wrapped up, and I was like, oh, why are you guys in such a hurry? Just kinda, you know, rooting around. And he showed me a list of things that he's got going on, like Poland and Ireland, and I just thought I don't know. It just seems like there's still a pretty big gap on how we're gonna sell the product on November 1.

00:17:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
That was a key discussion items in our meetings yesterday is is we all agree that it's a problem.

00:17:06 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Yeah. It's clearly not on his radar. I and then he kinda got suspicious and asked me why I was asking. And I was like, oh, I was just trying to see, like, you

00:17:16 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
know, do have

00:17:17 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
any other projects? Oh, I told him, wanna know if we have any other projects in The US in the pipeline, which is true. I wanna know that. But yeah. Yeah. I I don't know. I think it really highlighted that I don't think e this is on ecommerce's radar in any way right now.

00:17:32 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
It's not. And Angela had already identified I mean, you brought it up to me yesterday, right, as a as a still open red flag. And then in our discussions, Angela said, so I've been having meetings with marketing, and they don't seem to have, like, this as a plan at all. Yeah. Agreed. This is a problem.

00:17:50 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Good stuff.

00:17:51 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Well, I will get this email out to update what we can. If there's any confusion or if it doesn't line up, someone make sure you speak up. But, other than that, good meeting.

00:18:01 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Hey, guys.

00:18:01 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
So, Michael, we'll get it we'll get that weekly thing set up pretty soon, and and so you'll you'll see that come across shortly. That is that fair?

00:18:09 - [MICHAEL_BOUHADANA]
Yeah. Great. Great. Cool. Alright, guys. Have a good weekend.

00:18:13 - [SCOTT_WARNER]
Bye bye. Take care.

00:18:16 - [SHAWN_REMICK]
Hello?