Segment and Geographic Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment and Geographic Information [Text Block]

Segment and Geographic Information

The company is a global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions.  The company distributes electronic components to original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers through its global components business segment and provides enterprise computing solutions to value-added resellers and managed service providers through its global ECS business segment.  As a result of the company's philosophy of maximizing operating efficiencies through the centralization of certain functions, selected fixed assets and related depreciation, as well as borrowings, are not directly attributable to the individual operating segments and are included in the corporate business segment.

Sales, by segment by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2018		April 1, 2017
Components:
Americas	$	1,796,698	$	1,563,545
EMEA (a)	1,478,386		1,118,279
Asia/Pacific	1,654,848		1,376,979
Global components	$	4,929,932	$	4,058,803
ECS:
Americas	$	1,195,411	$	1,094,643
EMEA	750,270		583,334
Global ECS	$	1,945,681	$	1,677,977
Consolidated (b)	$	6,875,613	$	5,736,780

(a) Defined as Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,649,668 and $2,342,128 for the first quarter of 2018 and 2017, respectively.

Operating income (loss), by segment, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 31, 2018			April 1, 2017
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	229,546		$	173,533
Global ECS	83,806			82,189
Corporate (c)	(77,357		)	(62,697		)
Consolidated	$	235,995		$	193,025

(c) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $21,171 and $15,505 for the first quarter of 2018 and 2017, respectively, as well as a net loss on the disposition of businesses of $1,562 for the first quarter of 2018.

Total assets, by segment, is as follows:

	March 31, 2018		December 31, 2017
Global components	$	10,721,997	$	10,229,168
Global ECS	4,546,410		5,426,675
Corporate	856,398		803,424
Consolidated	$	16,124,805	$	16,459,267

Net property, plant, and equipment, by geographic area, is as follows:

	March 31, 2018		December 31, 2017
Americas (d)	$	694,312	$	688,637
EMEA	112,028		108,232
Asia/Pacific	43,527		41,606
Consolidated	$	849,867	$	838,475

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $689,953 and $683,988 at March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.