Represents the capacity of the securitization program.

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- Definition

Accounts receivable securitization program maximum capacity.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to collections reinvested in revolving period transfers related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (d)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=118948506&loc=d3e107207-111719

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- Definition

Proceeds from securitizations of receivables treated as collateralized borrowings, which are classified as financing transactions.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 14
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=118932676&loc=d3e3255-108585

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Accounts Receivable Securitization and Other Factoring Arrangements - Narrative (Details) € in Millions	3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2020 EUR (€)	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($)
Accounts Receivable Securitization
Accounts receivable balance sold	$ 0			$ 149,000,000.0
Proceeds from collection of receivables	$ 0		€ 59.3	$ 182,800,000
Maximum availability under these programs		$ 35,000,000.0	€ 55.0
Maximum
Accounts Receivable Securitization
Capacity of securitization program		$ 75,000,000.0