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Risks and Uncertainties
9 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2021
Risks And Uncertainties [Abstract]  
Risks and Uncertainties

Risks and Uncertainties

  In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported in Wuhan, China. The coronavirus has since spread, and infections have been found in multiple countries around the world, including the United States. In March 2020, the World Health Organization recognized the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic based on the global spread of the disease, the severity of illnesses it causes and its effects on society. In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of many countries, states, cities and other geographic regions have taken preventative or protective actions, such as imposing restrictions on travel and business operations and advising or requiring individuals to limit or forego their time outside of their homes. Accordingly, the COVID-19 outbreak has severely restricted the level of economic activity in many countries, and continues to adversely impact global economic activity, including with respect to customer purchasing actions and supply chain continuity and disruption.

STRATTEC’s operating performance is subject to global economic conditions and levels of consumer spending specifically within the automotive industry. During the period from late March 2020 through mid-June 2020, the majority of our OEM customer assembly plant operations were completely closed including most of the supply chain. Additionally, during most of this same period, STRATTEC’s Mexico facilities were closed as a result of the Mexican government’s shutdown of non-essential businesses. Re-opening of our OEM customer facilities and our Mexico facilities began in June 2020, and the automotive industry continued to ramp-up throughout our nine-month fiscal period ended March 28, 2021 resulting in an increase in our net sales for this current fiscal nine-month period compared to our prior year period. While we expect increased sales over our prior year during our fourth fiscal quarter due to our customers’ reduction in production schedules and their assembly plant closures during the period late March 2020 through mid-June 2020, such estimates are dependent on the severity of the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and any worsening of the impact of the pandemic (including relating to potential restrictive operating measures imposed by governmental authorities) on society and specifically on the automotive industry and are also dependent upon any adverse lingering impact of COVID-19 on the continued sourcing of transponders and other critical supply chain components by us and our customers to meet expected production schedules.

The extent of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on our future operating results will depend on certain developments, including the duration, intensity and continued spread of the outbreak, regulatory and private sector responses, which may be precautionary, and the impact to our customers, workforce and suppliers, in particular our and customer supply chains when meeting production schedules, all of which are uncertain and cannot be predicted. These changing conditions may also affect the estimates and assumptions made by our management. Such estimates and assumptions affect, among other things, our long-lived asset valuations, equity investment valuation, assessment of our annual effective tax rate, valuation of deferred income taxes, assessment of excess and obsolete inventory reserves, and assessment of collectability of trade receivables.