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REVENUE (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

Disaggregation of Revenue [Table Text Block]

The following tables disaggregate Wesco’s net sales by segment and geography for the periods presented:

			Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands)			2021						2020						2019
Electrical & Electronic Solutions			$	7,621,263					$	5,479,760					$	4,860,541
Communications & Security Solutions			5,715,238						3,323,264						909,496
Utility & Broadband Solutions			4,881,011						3,522,971						2,588,880
Total by segment			$	18,217,512					$	12,325,995					$	8,358,917

			Year Ended December 31,
(In thousands)			2021						2020						2019
United States			$	13,157,866					$	9,110,453					$	6,234,119
Canada			2,747,187						1,892,321						1,647,066
Other International(1)			2,312,459						1,323,221						477,732
Total by geography(2)			$	18,217,512					$	12,325,995					$	8,358,917

(1)    No individual country's net sales are greater than 10% of total net sales.

(2)    Wesco attributes revenues from external customers to individual countries on the basis of point of sale.

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Tabular disclosure of disaggregation of revenue into categories depicting how nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factor.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 606
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123351226&loc=SL49130545-203045

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