We think it’s a competitive advantage for — we continue to invest in new materials, new material capability and we expect as we roll through the next six to nine months that our ability to compete with other vendors in this space that we will begin to level out the playing field as we bring some of these new materials to bear on that marketplace. So, we are bullish about the future of printing. We think it’s complementary to milling and that our complete technology offering coupled with DS Core will continue to be meaningful for customers, and we will certainly be driving it in that manner.
Justin Lin: Very, helpful. Thank you.
Operator: Thank you. Please stand by for our final question. Our final question comes from Michael Petusky with Barrington Research.
Michael Petusky: Hi, good morning. Thanks for the question. And I’m going to sort of throw out a bigger– I think philosophical question. So Simon, you’ve almost been in the chair for a year at this point. Obviously, a number of people have in that chair over the past decade have not been able to create sort of sustainable momentum and sustainable value — a sustainable value-creating business. Just curious, what are two or three things now that you’ve been in the chair almost a year that you’ve sort of looked at and you said, “You know what, okay, I see where my predecessors maybe ran into some problems or these are some things that, obviously, we’ve as a business, historically, have not been able to get done.” I mean are there things that you’ve learned at this point where you can sort of see, hey, this is why predecessors have not quite executed and here’s why I think we can? Thanks.
Simon Campion: Well, I don’t know if I want to comment on what they — what predecessors did and did not do. I’d rather focus on what we are doing.
Michael Petusky: Sure.
Simon Campion: So I’ll pick some of the things that we’ve spoken about at this meeting or at this call this morning. So, one, investment in commercial infrastructure and clinical education, we have reinvested, I think, significantly in that space. Number two, building capability around R&D, particularly, around uncovering innovation, monetizing it and discipline around the R&D process. The big gap for us, and we’re prepared to grab that thorny bush is ERP. We have thirteen or fourteen ERP systems in this company that drives massive inefficiency. So we — as we noted in the prepared remarks, we have kicked off that project. We have selected the vendor we have selected the integration partner, we’ve built a team around it, and we’re in the blueprinting phase.
We are reducing our network, our manufacturing and distribution network, so there are a lot of levers that we are pulling why others did or did not pull the same levers, I don’t know, but we have our — we have a full plate and we’re making progress in all regards. In addition to the cultural transformation, we’re building out the team and we’ve elevated quality. We brought in a new CHRO leader, we’ve changed out the leadership in Australia and New Zealand. We’ve put the customer at the center of everything we do. In addition to driving a culture of ethical and compliant behavior, which we think is — which we know is extremely important and we drive that at every single meeting. In fact, at the top 100 leader meeting that we had in Charlotte, the first presentation on the agenda was ethics and compliance.
So we are not screwing around. It’s really important.
Michael Petusky: All right, very good. Thank you so much.
Operator: Thank you. At this time, I am showing no further questions. I would now like to turn the conference back over to Simon Campion, CEO, for closing remarks.
Simon Campion: Thank you, and thank you all for your attendance on today’s call. I would just like to take a moment to reiterate some key points before we close. Firstly, delivering on our commitments is of the utmost importance to this team. We feel that operational execution is improving at Dentsply Sirona. We continue to make advances on the transformational and strategic objectives that we’ve laid out. We are, as we’ve spoken about, investing back into our business, which has been funded in part by our cost savings initiatives. And then finally, on behalf of the management team, I want to thank all Dentsply Sirona employees for their dedication to the business and the necessary transformation that is underway. And in particular, we want to express our thanks to employees who have departed the organization in the last quarter and wish them all well in the next phase of their careers. Thank you.
Operator: This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.
