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Supply Chain Financing
3 Months Ended
Apr. 29, 2023
Supply Chain Financing  
Supply Chain Financing

Note 5    Supply Chain Financing

The Company facilitates a voluntary supply chain finance program (“the Program”) that provides certain of the Company’s suppliers the opportunity to sell receivables related to products that the Company has purchased to participating financial institutions at a rate that leverages the Company’s credit rating, which may be more beneficial to the suppliers than the rate they can obtain based upon their own credit rating. The Company negotiates payment and other terms directly with the suppliers, regardless of whether the supplier participates in the Program, and the Company’s responsibility is limited to making payment based on the terms originally negotiated with the supplier.  The suppliers that participate in the Program have discretion to determine which invoices, if any, are sold to the participating financing institutions.  The liabilities to the suppliers that participate in the Program are presented as accounts payable in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets, with changes reflected within cash flows from operating activities when settled.  As of April 29, 2023 and April 30, 2022, the Company had $16.8 million and $45.0 million, respectively, of accounts payable subject to supply chain financing arrangements.