Segment and Geographic Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

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 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 and operating income (loss), by segment, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2017			October 1, 2016			September 30, 2017			October 1, 2016
Sales:
Global components	$	4,864,361		$	3,904,447		$	13,385,514		$	11,413,348
Global ECS	2,089,379			2,031,645			5,793,124			5,969,022
Consolidated	$	6,953,740		$	5,936,092		$	19,178,638		$	17,382,370
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	212,993		$	175,507		$	583,690		$	524,662
Global ECS	94,797			96,181			282,379			283,792
Corporate (a)	(71,798		)	(73,004		)	(208,533		)	(204,814		)
Consolidated	$	235,992		$	198,684		$	657,536		$	603,640

(a) Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $15,896 and $55,817 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2017 and $24,267 and $61,161 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2016, respectively.

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:

	September 30, 2017		December 31, 2016
Global components	$	9,674,716	$	8,360,926
Global ECS	4,590,887		5,053,172
Corporate	791,363		792,268
Consolidated	$	15,056,966	$	14,206,366

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:

	Quarter Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2017		October 1, 2016		September 30, 2017		October 1, 2016
Americas (b)	$	3,217,537	$	2,897,810	$	8,829,813	$	8,327,845
EMEA (c)	1,886,440		1,548,067		5,406,330		4,990,973
Asia/Pacific	1,849,763		1,490,215		4,942,495		4,063,552
Consolidated	$	6,953,740	$	5,936,092	$	19,178,638	$	17,382,370

(b) Includes sales related to the United States of $2,959,857 and $8,060,819 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2017 and $2,677,954 and $7,665,313 for the third quarter and first nine months of 2016, respectively.

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

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

	September 30, 2017		December 31, 2016
Americas (d)	$	671,668	$	631,386
EMEA	104,028		90,834
Asia/Pacific	39,683		34,079
Consolidated	$	815,379	$	756,299

(d) Includes net property, plant, and equipment related to the United States of $666,511 and $626,964 at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively.