Segment and Geographic Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]

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

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

	2020		2019		2018
Components:
Americas	$	6,183,119	$	7,167,295	$	7,816,533
EMEA	4,987,534		5,412,379		5,733,222
Asia-Pacific	9,332,034		7,671,061		7,307,096
Global components	$	20,502,687	$	20,250,735	$	20,856,851
ECS:
Americas	$	5,109,372	$	5,632,025	$	5,742,526
EMEA	3,061,304		3,034,087		3,077,391
Global ECS	$	8,170,676	$	8,666,112	$	8,819,917
Consolidated (a)	$	28,673,363	$	28,916,847	$	29,676,768

(a)     Includes sales related to the United States of $10,162,989, $11,511,611, and $12,157,306 for 2020, 2019, and 2018, respectively.

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

	2020		2019		2018
Operating income (loss):
Global components (a)	$	780,333	$	(10,199)	$	1,007,638
Global ECS (b)	353,763		426,192		427,605
Corporate (c)	(239,585)		(308,297)		(287,731)
Consolidated	$	894,511	$	107,696	$	1,147,512

(a)    Global components operating income for 2019 includes restructuring, integration, and other charges of $10,778, a loss on disposition of businesses, net, of $19,384, impairments of $698,246, a non-recurring charge of $22,332 related to a subset of inventory held by its digital business, and a non-recurring charge of $18,037 related to the receivables and inventory of its financing solutions business. During 2019 the company decided to narrow its digital inventory offerings and will no longer provide notes to its components customers.

(b)    Global ECS operating income for 2020 includes reserves and other adjustments of approximately $29,858 primarily related to foreign tax and other loss contingencies. These reserves are principally associated with transactional taxes on activity from several prior years, not significant to any one year. Global ECS operating income for 2020 also includes $4,918 in impairment charges related to various long-lived assets.

(c)    Corporate operating income for the years 2020, 2019, and 2018 includes restructuring, integration, and other charges (credits) of $13,288, $79,007, and $60,361, respectively. Also included in 2019 and 2018 was a net loss on the disposition of businesses of $1,868 and $3,604, respectively. Corporate operating income for 2020 includes $2,305 of impairment charges related to various long-lived assets.

Reconciliation of Assets from Segment to Consolidated [Text Block]

Total assets, by segment, at December 31 are as follows:

	2020		2019
Global components	$	10,509,970	$	10,253,006
Global ECS	5,718,992		5,479,919
Corporate	824,949		667,871
Consolidated	$	17,053,911	$	16,400,796

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

Long-lived asset information, by geographic area, is as follows:

	2020		2019
Americas (a)	$	652,006	$	713,925
EMEA	339,652		274,656
Asia-Pacific	114,056		92,482
Consolidated	$	1,105,714	$	1,081,063

(a)    Includes net long-lived assets related to the United States of $645,807 and $709,056 at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.