Supplier Financing Program

12 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2025

Payables and Accruals [Abstract]

Supplier Finance Program

As part of ongoing efforts to maximize working capital, we work with our suppliers to optimize our terms and conditions, which includes the extension of payment terms. Payment terms with our suppliers, which we deem to be commercially reasonable, range from 0 to 180 days. We have an agreement with a third-party administrator to provide an accounts payable tracking system and facilitate a supplier financing program which allows participating suppliers the ability to monitor and voluntarily elect to sell our payment obligations to a designated third-party financial institution. Participating suppliers can sell one or more of our payment obligations at their sole discretion, and our rights and obligations to our suppliers are not impacted. We have no economic interest in a supplier’s decision to enter into these agreements. Our rights and obligations to our suppliers, including amounts due and scheduled payment terms, are not impacted by our suppliers’ decisions to sell amounts under these arrangements. However, our right to offset balances due from suppliers against our payment obligations is restricted by the agreement for those payment obligations that have been sold by our suppliers. The payment of these obligations is included in cash provided by operating activities in the Statements of Consolidated Cash Flows.

The following table presents the rollforwards of our outstanding payment obligations under the supplier financing program, which are included in accounts payable in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of April 30, 2025 and 2024.

	2025		2024
Supplier financing program obligations outstanding at the beginning of the year	$	384.9	$	414.2
Invoice amounts added during the year	1,517.8		1,656.2
Invoice amounts paid during the year	(1,562.3)		(1,685.5)
Supplier financing program obligations outstanding at the end of the year	$	340.4	$	384.9