Segment and Geographic Information (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Text Block]

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



	Quarter Ended						Six Months Ended
	June 30, 2012			July 2, 2011			June 30, 2012			July 2, 2011
Sales:
Global components	$	3,453,687		$	3,875,331		$	6,803,241		$	7,761,931
Global ECS	1,696,876			1,664,600			3,236,851			3,001,003
Consolidated	$	5,150,563		$	5,539,931		$	10,040,092		$	10,762,934
Operating income (loss):
Global components	$	170,524		$	224,035		$	341,232		$	452,916
Global ECS	65,961			63,690			121,448			102,770
Corporate (a)	(47,796		)	(39,395		)	(86,542		)	(88,188		)
Consolidated	$	188,689		$	248,330		$	376,138		$	467,498


(a)	Includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $13,347 and $21,590 for the second quarter and first six months of 2012 and $5,221 and $14,828 for the second quarter and first six months of 2011, respectively. Also included in the first six months of 2011 is a charge of $5,875 related to the settlement of a legal matter.

Reconciliation of Assets from Segment to Consolidated [Text Block]

Total assets, by segment, are as follows:



	June 30, 2012		December 31, 2011
Global components	$	6,335,830	$	5,974,174
Global ECS	3,031,486		3,206,788
Corporate	667,586		648,117
Consolidated	$	10,034,902	$	9,829,079

Schedule Of Revenues From External Customers And Long Lived Assets By Geographical Areas Table [Text Block]

Sales, by geographic area, are as follows:



	Quarter Ended				Six Months Ended
	June 30, 2012		July 2, 2011		June 30, 2012		July 2, 2011
Americas (b)	$	2,703,706	$	2,728,486	$	5,235,486	$	5,120,287
EMEA (c)	1,488,294		1,792,023		3,018,321		3,608,587
Asia/Pacific	958,563		1,019,422		1,786,285		2,034,060
Consolidated	$	5,150,563	$	5,539,931	$	10,040,092	$	10,762,934


(b)	Includes sales related to the United States of $2,493,567 and $4,794,563 for the second quarter and first six months of 2012 and $2,519,496 and $4,680,845 for the second quarter and first six months of 2011, respectively.


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

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



	June 30, 2012		December 31, 2011
Americas (d)	$	490,698	$	479,420
EMEA	60,335		56,552
Asia/Pacific	20,938		20,257
Consolidated	$	571,971	$	556,229


(d)	Includes net property, plant and equipment related to the United States of $489,485 and $478,376 at June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.

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Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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