Financing Arrangements (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 28, 2019

Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]

Financing Arrangements

Financing Arrangements

We have utilized accounts receivable securitization and factoring programs (the “Programs”) globally for our working capital needs and to provide efficient liquidity. During 2018, we had Programs in place in various countries across the globe. In the second quarter of 2018, we unwound our U.S. securitization program, which represented the majority of our Programs, using proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt in June 2018. As of December 29, 2018, we had unwound all of our Programs.

We operated the Programs such that we generally utilized the majority of the available aggregate cash consideration limits. We accounted for transfers of receivables pursuant to the Programs as a sale and removed them from our consolidated balance sheets. Under the Programs, we generally received cash consideration up to a certain limit and recorded a non-cash exchange for sold receivables for the remainder of the purchase price. We maintained a “beneficial interest,” or a right to collect cash, in the sold receivables. Cash receipts from the payments on sold receivables (which are cash receipts on the underlying trade receivables that have already been securitized in these Programs) are classified as investing activities and presented as cash receipts on sold receivables on our consolidated statements of cash flows.

As all of the Programs were unwound as of December 29, 2018, there were no related amounts on our condensed consolidated balance sheets at September 28, 2019 or December 29, 2018.

Our U.S. securitization program utilized a bankruptcy-remote special-purpose entity (“SPE”). The SPE was wholly-owned by a subsidiary of Kraft Heinz, and its sole business consisted of the purchase or acceptance, through capital contributions, of receivables and related assets from a Kraft Heinz subsidiary and the subsequent transfer of such receivables and related assets to a bank. Although the SPE is included in our consolidated financial statements, it was a separate legal entity with separate creditors who were entitled, upon its liquidation in the second quarter of 2018, to be satisfied out of the SPE's assets prior to any assets or value in the SPE becoming available to Kraft Heinz or its subsidiaries.

We enter into various structured payable and product financing arrangements to facilitate supply from our vendors. Balance sheet classification is based on the nature of the agreements. For certain arrangements, we classify amounts outstanding within other current liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets. We had approximately $146 million on our consolidated balance sheets at September 28, 2019 and approximately $267 million at December 29, 2018 related to these arrangements.