Exit and Realignment Costs

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

We periodically incur exit and realignment and other charges associated with optimizing our operations which includes the consolidation of certain distribution and outsourced logistics centers, administrative offices and warehouses, our client engagement center and IT restructuring charges. These charges also include costs associated with our strategic organizational realignment which include leadership reorganization costs, certain professional fees, and costs to streamline administrative functions and processes and divestiture related costs.

Exit and realignment charges by segment for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 were as follows:


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Global Solutions segment	$	5,352	$	2,714	$	16,166	$	6,255
Global Products segment	1,028		2,877		4,801		3,364
Total exit and realignment charges	$	6,380	$	5,591	$	20,967	$	9,619

The following table summarizes the activity related to exit and realignment cost accruals through September 30, 2021 and 2020:


	Total
Accrued exit and realignment costs, December 31, 2020	$	3,146
Provision for exit and realignment activities:
Information system restructuring costs	1,029
Lease obligations	347
Other	781
Cash payments	(2,915)
Accrued exit and realignment costs, March 31, 2021	2,388
Provision for exit and realignment activities:
Information system restructuring costs	1,611
Lease obligations	(126)
Other	989
Cash payments	(2,302)
Accrued exit and realignment costs, June 30, 2021	2,560
Provision for exit and realignment activities:
Information system restructuring costs	1,506
Lease obligations	107
Other	3,142
Cash payments	(4,199)
Accrued exit and realignment costs, September 30, 2021	$	3,116

Accrued exit and realignment costs, December 31, 2019	$	8,162
Provision for exit and realignment activities:
Severance	1,391
Information system restructuring costs	183
Lease obligations	202
Other	53
Cash payments	(5,799)
Accrued exit and realignment costs, March 31, 2020	4,192
Provision for exit and realignment activities:
Severance	809
Information system restructuring costs	671
Lease obligations	219
Other	501
Cash payments	(2,072)
Accrued exit and realignment costs, June 30, 2020	4,320
Provision for exit and realignment activities:
Severance	1,950
Information system restructuring costs	77
Lease obligations	848
Other	2,716
Cash payments	(7,083)
Accrued exit and realignment costs, September 30, 2020	$	2,828

In addition to the exit and realignment accruals in the preceding table, we also incurred $1.6 million and $11.6 million of costs that were expensed as incurred for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, which primarily includes $1.5 million and $9.6 million of wind-down costs related to Fusion5 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021.

There were no acquisition-related charges included within acquisition-related and exit and realignment charges presented in our consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021. Acquisition-related charges within acquisition-related and exit and realignment charges presented in our consolidated statements of operations were $0.8 million and $8.9 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, which consisted primarily of transition costs for the Halyard acquisition.

We may incur additional charges in 2021 for wind-down costs related to Fusion5.