Restructuring

6 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2020

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, management initiated restructuring activities to reshape the Company's global footprint to be flexible to market conditions. Activities included actions such as consolidating manufacturing facilities, making geographical shifts to place production closer to customer facilities, centralizing departments, optimizing our product portfolio and capturing synergies. Management believes these strategic moves will result in a stronger and more agile organization.

We have incurred employee, professional, legal and other restructuring related costs of $41,859 since initiating the restructuring activities.

Global restructuring initiatives have continued to evolve and expand across the organization. We expect to incur additional restructuring costs over and beyond the next twelve months to execute planned restructuring initiatives. Costs of planned restructuring actions will primarily include employee costs and professional fees to execute initiatives. Future restructuring actions will depend upon market conditions, customer actions and other factors.

The following table presents information about restructuring costs recorded for the three and nine months ended July 31, 2020 and 2019:


	Three Months Ended July 31,						Nine Months Ended July 31,
	2020		2019		2020		2019
Employee costs	$	2,049	$	947	$	4,013	$	2,377
Professional and legal costs	128		2,608		9,013		6,769
Other	19		350		371		2,225
	$	2,196	$	3,905	$	13,397	$	11,371

The following table presents a rollforward of the beginning and ending liability balances related to the restructuring costs which are included in the condensed consolidated balance sheets in other accrued expenses for the above-mentioned actions through July 31, 2020 and July 31, 2019:


	Balance as of October 31, 2018		Restructuring Expense		Payments		Balance as of July 31, 2019
Employee costs	$	367	$	2,377	$	(2,744)	$	—

Professional and legal costs	248		6,769		(4,792)		2,225
Other	—		2,225		(2,225)		—
	$	615	$	11,371	$	(9,761)	$	2,225