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Business Segment Information | 3 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2019
Segment Reporting Disclosure Of Entitys Reportable Segments [Abstract] |
Business Segment Information | (6) Business Segment Information We provide a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services through companies competing collectively, operating independently and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. Our primary operating companies are FedEx Express, including TNT Express, the world’s largest express transportation company; FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. (“FedEx Ground”), a leading North American provider of small-package ground delivery services; and FedEx Freight Corporation (“FedEx Freight”), a leading North American provider of less-than-truckload (“LTL”) freight transportation services. These companies represent our major service lines and, along with FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. (“FedEx Services”), constitute our reportable segments. Our reportable segments include the following businesses:
FedEx Express Segment | FedEx Express (express transportation)
| TNT Express (international express transportation, small-package ground delivery and freight transportation)
FedEx Ground Segment | FedEx Ground (small-package ground delivery)
FedEx Freight Segment | FedEx Freight (LTL freight transportation)
FedEx Services Segment | FedEx Services (sales, marketing, information technology, communications, customer service, technical support, billing and collection services and back-office functions)
References to our transportation segments include, collectively, the FedEx Express segment, the FedEx Ground segment and the FedEx Freight segment. Effective June 1, 2019, the results of the FedEx Office operating segment are included in “Corporate, other and eliminations.” This change was made to reflect our internal management reporting structure. Prior year amounts have been revised to reflect current year presentation. FedEx Services Segment The FedEx Services segment operates combined sales, marketing, administrative and information-technology functions in shared services operations for U.S. customers of our major business units and certain back-office support to our operating segments which allows us to obtain synergies from the combination of these functions. For the international regions of FedEx Express, some of these functions are performed on a regional basis and reported by FedEx Express in their natural expense line items. The FedEx Services segment provides direct and indirect support to our operating segments, and we allocate all of the net operating costs of the FedEx Services segment to reflect the full cost of operating our transportation businesses in the results of those segments. We review and evaluate the performance of our transportation segments based on operating income (inclusive of FedEx Services segment allocations). For the FedEx Services segment, performance is evaluated based on the impact of its total allocated net operating costs on our transportation segments. Operating expenses for each of our transportation segments include the allocations from the FedEx Services segment to the respective transportation segments. These allocations also include charges and credits for administrative services provided between operating companies. The allocations of net operating costs are based on metrics such as relative revenues or estimated services provided. We believe these allocations approximate the net cost of providing these functions. Our allocation methodologies are refined periodically, as necessary, to reflect changes in our businesses. Corporate, Other and Eliminations Corporate and other includes corporate headquarters costs for executive officers and certain legal and finance functions, as well as certain other costs and credits not attributed to our core business. These costs are not allocated to the other business segments. Also included in corporate and other is the FedEx Office operating segment, which provides an array of document and business services and retail access to our customers for our package transportation businesses, and the FedEx Logistics operating segment, which provides integrated supply chain management solutions, specialty transportation, cross-border e-commerce technology and e-commerce transportation solutions, customs brokerage and global ocean and air freight forwarding. Certain FedEx operating companies provide transportation and related services for other FedEx companies outside their reportable segment. Billings for such services are based on negotiated rates, which we believe approximate fair value, and are reflected as revenues of the billing segment. These rates are adjusted from time to time based on market conditions. Such intersegment revenues and expenses are eliminated in our consolidated results and are not separately identified in the following segment information because the amounts are not material. The following table provides a reconciliation of reportable segment revenues and operating income (loss) to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statement totals for the three-month periods ended August 31 (in millions):
|  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
Revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FedEx Express segment |  | $ | 8,945 |  |  | $ | 9,222 |
FedEx Ground segment |  |  | 5,179 |  |  |  | 4,799 |
FedEx Freight segment |  |  | 1,905 |  |  |  | 1,959 |
FedEx Services segment |  |  | 4 |  |  |  | 9 |
Other and eliminations |  |  | 1,015 |  |  |  | 1,063 |
|  | $ | 17,048 |  |  | $ | 17,052 |
Operating income (loss): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FedEx Express segment |  | $ | 285 |  |  | $ | 388 |
FedEx Ground segment |  |  | 644 |  |  |  | 676 |
FedEx Freight segment |  |  | 194 |  |  |  | 176 |
Corporate, other and eliminations |  |  | (146 | ) |  |  | (169 | )
|  | $ | 977 |  |  | $ | 1,071 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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