Welcome to the ScanSource Quarterly Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed in listen-only mode until the question-and-answer session. Today's call is being recorded. If anyone has any objections, you may disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to Mary Gentry, Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations. Ma'am, you may begin.

Thank you, and welcome to ScanSource's earnings conference call for the quarter ended December 31, 2014. With me today are Mike Baur, our CEO; and Charlie Mathis, our CFO. We will review operating results for the quarter and then take your questions. A slide presentation that accompanies our comments and webcast is posted in the Investor Relations section of our Web site. Certain statements made on this call will be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors identified in the release and in ScanSource's SEC filings. Any forward-looking statements represent our views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. ScanSource undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements to actual results or changes in expectations. We will be discussing both GAAP and non-GAAP results during our call and have provided reconciliations between these amounts in our slide presentation and in the press release. These reconciliations can be found on our Web site and also have been filed on our Form 8-K. Mike Baur will now begin our discussion with an overview of our results.

Thanks, Mary, and thank you for joining us today. Let’s start with the highlights for second quarter on Slide 3 of our deck. I am pleased to report another quarter of record net sales and non-GAAP diluted EPS above our expected range. Our teams achieved 9% year-over-year net sales growth with very good growth in both of our segments. This growth includes record sales results for our point-of-sale and barcode teams in North America and Europe. As you know, we manage a portfolio of technology products across North America, Europe and Latin America. For the third quarter in a row, our sales mix included a higher volume of big deals, which have lower gross margins than our run rate business. In addition, the significant strengthening of the dollar led to a lower mix of international business compared to our domestic business. As a result, the mix of business this quarter; geographic, product and customer mix, led to a 9.7% gross profit margin for the quarter. Our focus continues to be on growing our businesses with value-added margins and providing a platform of services to support that mix of business. This means executing on the strategic investments we discussed last quarter, including our international communication markets, physical security, 3D printing, mobile computing and payment terminals. Each of these areas of investment has strong opportunities for growth. We are pleased to deliver a 14.8% return on invested capital for the quarter and we continue to have a strong balance sheet that positions us for future investments in our business. Recent investments include; the completion of two acquisitions to expand our worldwide communications business in Europe and Latin America both in attractive growth markets with higher margin opportunities. On September 19, 2014, we completed our acquisition of Imago Group plc, Europe’s leading value-added video and voice communication distributor. This was our first full quarter with Imago and Imago’s first quarter results were very good. Earlier this month, on January 13, we successfully completed our acquisition of Network1, the largest communications value-added distributor in Brazil and throughout Latin America. This acquisition complements our existing successful POS and barcode business in Brazil. We welcome Rafael Paloni and his team to ScanSource and are now able to offer a full suite of communications, point-of-sale and barcode solutions to this growing market. With the Network1 acquisition, we added nearly 400 employees and additional locations in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru. Network1 has over 60 vendors, 8,000 customers and calendar year 2014 estimated sales of approximately $300 million. Network1 is the largest company that ScanSource has acquired to-date. We believe these acquisitions are a very good investment and will provide strong, bottom line results to the company. With that, I’ll turn the call over to Charlie to discuss our financial results in more detail and our outlook for third quarter fiscal year 2015.

Thanks, Mike. The financial information I will be discussing can be found on Slides 4 through 8 of our presentation. As we indicated last quarter, we will discuss our operating results using GAAP and non-GAAP measures. The non-GAAP measures exclude the amortization of intangible assets, the change in fair value of contingent considerations and acquisition costs. Net sales for the second quarter totaled $807 million, a 9% increase over the prior year quarter or an 11% increase excluding the impact of foreign exchange from the strengthening of the U.S. dollar. The year-over-year change in foreign currency exchange rates negatively impacted sales by approximately $16 million with most of the impact in the worldwide barcode and security segment. Worldwide barcode and security sales grew 5% year-over-year or 8% excluding the impact of foreign exchange. Worldwide communications and services sales grew 16%, which includes the acquisition of Imago for the fourth quarter. Turning to profitability, as Mike mentioned previously, our mix of business led to a 9.7% gross profit margin for the second quarter of 2015. The worldwide barcode and security gross margin decreased to 8.4% from 9% for the year ago quarter, largely due to higher volume of big deals at lower gross profit margins, timing of vendor program recognition and a lower mix of international business from foreign currency changes. For worldwide communication and services, the gross margin was 11.8% for the quarter mainly due to customer and product sales mix. The prior year gross margin of 13.1% was unusually high from timing of vendor program recognition. Second quarter 2015 SG&A expenses, excluding acquisition costs and amortization of intangible assets, were 48.7 million or 6% of net sales versus 48.4 million or 6.5% of net sales with the second quarter of 2014. Second quarter 2015 SG&A expenses included higher employee-related…

Thanks, Charlie. We have two reporting segments that we will discuss, so let me start with worldwide barcode and securities summarized on Slide 9, which represents 62% of overall sales for the quarter. Worldwide barcode and securities sales of $500 million increased 5% year-over-year and were up 8%, excluding foreign exchange. Our teams in North America and Europe delivered record sales results. Similar to the last two quarters, it was a strong big deal quarter for our point-of-sale and barcode product lines. Typically, big deals have lower gross profit margins and that was the case this quarter. Our core run rate business remains strong this quarter and continues to reward us with value-added distribution margins. Almost every major product category delivered positive results, including barcode, scanning and printing, point-of-sale systems, video surveillance, wireless networking and mobile computing. We have made investments for this segment in three specific value-added growth areas; 3D printing, physical security and payment processing. Each of these areas had significant growth in the quarter and we believe we have the right level of people and services to maximize our opportunities. Now to our second segment, worldwide communications and services, on Slide 10 which is 38% of overall sales this quarter. Worldwide communications and services net sales of $307 million increased 16% from a year ago and increased 17% excluding foreign exchange. A key element of the growth strategy for this business has been to expand our vendor relationships across other geographies by providing the right set of value-added programs and services to our customers. With the completion of the Imago acquisition in late September, we now offer a stronger portfolio of video, voice and data products in Europe. We have the right vendors, customers and employees necessary to drive profitable growth in this market. The Imago acquisition…

Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Chris McGinnis with Sidoti & Company. Your line is open.

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions.

You bet. Hi, Chris.

I guess just to go through the numbers real quick and the guidance going forward, Charlie, can you walk through the impact of the ERP and maybe what’s almost one-time in nature? Can you just walk through that again? You went through it quickly and I couldn’t get it all in?

Yes, no problem, Chris. So let me do that and let me kind of walk you through the last quarter results and just say that incrementally, we expect to have about little over 3 million more SAP-related costs in the quarter.

All right. That’s going forward.

That’s for the March ending quarter, we expect to have over 3 million SAP-related costs.

And how much of that is a one-time, I guess?

It’s that 2.1 million that I mentioned that is the one-time cost related to SAP services that would no longer be around.

Great, I appreciate that. And then I guess just thinking about the margins where they’re at now and how they’ve compressed. You see that similar environment in Q3 as well?

As we mentioned, we see some similarities related to the currency and the mix of the business, but also it’s strengthened with the acquisition Network1. So, we really expect the gross profit percentage to be 10% or above.

All right. And that doesn’t change at all with any of the acquisitions. And is this more of a near term, because of the larger deals and then also it sounds like could you break out how much of the – maybe on a year-over-year or away from that 10% is currency related?

I wouldn’t say that a lot of it. We run the business, this value-added model that Mike has been talking about to stay in this 10% gross profit margin, which has been consistent for years and years and that’s what we’re continuing to do with the different mixes of business that we bring on, different vendors and so we’re pretty confident that we’ll sustain that model going forward.

Great. And I guess maybe just to dig into the business a little bit more. Mike, you mentioned the 3D. I know it’s very early still and if you go small, but it sounds like you’re seeing at least some initial positives. Can you maybe just elaborate on that?

Yes. Sure, Chris. I would say for ScanSource, it’s not unusual for us to have to devote a considerable amount of time to understand a marketplace. And again, this is one that we did not acquire our way in, so it’s a start from ground zero just like we did with our security business in '04. As a result, what we are learning we continue to be really not that surprised at is that the type of reseller that is going to be successful in 3D printing is different than the reseller that is selling security products today and barcode scanning and communications. So what we’re having to do is work with our key vendor partners and really build a channel, a new channel. So it’s a channel different than we have today but the similarities with all of our other channels are that these are companies that are trying to sell in a value-added model with hardware and software and services and so there’s no difference from the business model. The challenge is identifying the right customers, the right resellers and those who are more likely to be successful. There is already a channel of few hundred ready resellers in the U.S. and our job is to help our manufacturers grow those couple of hundred beyond. So what they want us to do in early days is to find and develop additional resellers to supplement the 200. The plan is that ScanSource will recruit and educate and train. And so I would say our strategies so far has been identify the right type of reseller and make sure they can understand the technology, so we’re doing recruiting and then we’re doing education and training because a reseller to get in this business has to invest a significant amount of money. For example, they all have to purchase a 3D demo printer to have so that they can produce samples for their customers and demonstrate the products. So it’s a significant financial commitment for the channels we’re trying to develop. So, I would say those early days of prospecting and then developing are well underway and now we have to help those customers find opportunities to sell. So the selling part of that channel is what we’re working on next. That’s a lot of detail but that’s kind of where we are.

That’s great. I know you’ve talked about it recently just the strength in the retail in the U.S. due to the changes in the chip and pin. Can you maybe just elaborate on that as well?

Yes, we think the marketplace certainly continues to say that there’s going to be significant demand and what really got us excited two years ago was when the point-of-sale traditional reseller was asked by many of these payment processing vendors to start selling the payment terminals. So we’ve had significant success with VeriFone and Ingenico and that is our traditional reseller customer who was not selling terminals. They’re now involved in that process. And so the chip and pin and EMV and really it’s going to be chip and signature in the U.S. It’s really driving the business towards the retail reseller channel differently than it was a few years ago when it was primarily sold by a separate channel of independent sales organizations that were not selling point-of-sale solutions. So that’s the big change for us is our existing customer base is starting to sell these products and so that’s bringing us incremental market share for ScanSource. So we’re excited about it. We like it when there are mandates that require retailers to purchase new products, so that’s good for our channel.

Great. And have you seen that pickup in terms of a trend coming at you, I guess the growth rates from that?

We have. So we would say we continue to see strong growth for ScanSource. We’re working off of a pretty small base from two years ago but our customers are seeing significant growth and demand in that space. So yes, we are seeing success there. And so we’ve continued to make investments and for us that means we’re adding people, which we did over the last couple of quarters and capabilities in our distribution center so that we can provide some value to the terminals before they’re shipped to the end customer. There’s a process where you have to put a secure code in each one of these terminals before it’s installed and we’ve added that service capability over the last two years in our distribution center in Mississippi.

Great. I’ll turn it over to other people in the queue. Thank you very much.

Thanks, Chris.

Our next question comes from the line of Keith Housum with Northcoast. Your line is open.

Thanks, guys. Good afternoon. The obvious question here is how much did Imago contribute to the quarter?

Well, Keith, as you know from our past, our practice has been to disclose a trailing 12-month when we make acquisitions and that’s going to be our practice again with Imago and Network1. So we reported trailing 12 of about $80 million prior to the acquisition.

Okay. So you’re not going to mention what they did for the quarter. The 80 million was also before they bought VTech, correct?

No, that was including VTech. And if you remember, the VTech business was struggling, it was in receivership, so just remember that.

Got it, okay. Charlie, if I can revisit just the guidance that you and Chris were talking about here. You said 3 million in the quarter from SAP at 2.1 million, is that a part of the 5 million to 6 million you guys were talking about for the second half of the year?

The 2.1 million that I talked about is part of the 5 million to 6 million. I was talking about the second half of the year.

Okay. So then for the fourth quarter, we can expect then 3 million to 4 million approximately, correct?

Yes. I would say that that’s true based on the timing.

Okay. And then the other roughly $1 million to get to the 2.1 million or the 3 million, is that the depreciation?

No, that’s – well, some of that is depreciation in there and some of that is internal resources that would no longer capitalize. And I think – maybe I need to go back over this to make sure it’s clear to you. What I said in here is that our incremental over our legacy business would be about 1.5 million a quarter going forward.

Right. So you got the 2.1 million, which is one-time and then we have approximately 1.5 million then going forward additional?

Yes.

And that includes depreciation.

Yes.

So we’re really closer to 3.5 million, 3.6 million then correct?

That’s correct.

Okay, got it. Remind me for the quarter, did you guys have any impact to the bottom line areas as a result of the FX translation?

Yes. As you know that flows to the bottom line, the FX. So I think we calculated roughly to the EPS probably about $0.01.

And it would be about the same then for next quarter or perhaps even up to $0.02 would be our [indiscernible] Network1?

Yes, we’re probably going to be more than that, probably around $0.02 we’re thinking.

Okay, got you. And then if you can give a little more color in terms of geographically, in terms of strength in Europe versus the U.S.? I don’t know if I heard it as much discussion with that in this script, just in terms of color on which did better and which segment?

Yes, Keith, we did not go into more detail. I think our comments were to be more around the technologies rather than about the geography spread. So that was intentional.

Okay. But will I be correct to assume that Europe is not growing maybe as fast as North America right now?

Well, my comment was and that in barcode we had a strong quarter in Europe, so we did say that. North America and Europe barcode and POS were records.

Okay. And then a last question for you. In terms of the vendor incentives, I guess how would you guys describe that current market? Is it not as strong because the larger deals are growing better?

Well, I’m trying to think how to explain that. Some of that is proprietary to how we negotiate with our vendors, so I’m trying to be careful here. So I would say this is that when you have large deals, all of the profitability possible in the deal is up for negotiation. So every program that is offered is also considered on the table when you have larger deals.

Okay.

Because a vendor and us, we’re all trying to work towards a target price and we’re willing to work with our margins on those large opportunities.

And clearly from your guidance, you’re expecting a large deal to dominate again next quarter, correct?

Well, we got some of that baked in but as you know, the March quarter if you just go back historically is always the most difficult one to forecast only because our vendors always are coming off of their – almost all of our vendors year end is December and so it always makes it more difficult to forecast what changes are vendors are going to put on their fealty for the March quarter. So I would say it’s always been a little more difficult to forecast. That’s really all I’m saying about it.

Okay. I’ll turn over the queue. Thanks.

Our next question comes from the line of Chris Quilty with Raymond James. Your line is open.

Thanks. You covered a lot of my questions but just a follow up on the investment, you mentioned three areas; the 3D printing, physical security and payment processing and I think with at least two of the three it looks like it’s primarily internal investment and building up those businesses. Are there, however, any opportunities in any of these areas for tuck-in acquisitions per se?

Well, there probably are opportunities, I wouldn’t comment more on our strategy of what we’re specifically targeting. But we’re always looking to fill gaps in our strategy as well as geographically or product life, but that’s about as far as I would go, Chris, on that.

Okay. And Charlie, just as a follow up, can you remind us with regard to foreign exchange in Europe specifically, sales in local currency U.S. dollar and hedging strategies?

Yes. So the impact for the quarter, it probably was about $60 million; that all was to the bottom line. As we said, it was about a $0.01 per share impact there. And we do hedging there but it’s really on the balance sheet we’re doing hedging. So that’s really the story there.

Sales in U.S. dollar or local currency by country or for the region?

Mostly in the local currency.

Okay. So you wouldn’t expect local distributors to have any kind of a specific competitive advantage based upon foreign exchange?

No.

Okay. That is it for me. Thank you gentlemen.

Thanks, Chris.

[Operator Instructions]. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Spinola with Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

Thanks. I’m going to try the gross margins just one more time in my way hopefully. The barcode and security, it sounds like it’s a little bit lower because of the large deals and the communication and services gross margin is down a little bit year-over-year because last year it was unusually strong, and your sort of longer term way to think about gross margins remains 10% for the business. Is that what I hear you saying?

Yes. That’s what you heard.

Perfect. And then when I’m thinking about operating margin, it sounds like the ERP is coming with an additional sort of after the one-time expenses for the go-live. There are some additional resources that will no longer be capitalized and we’ll be running through SG&A at I think 1.5 million a quarter. Is that what you were saying?

Yes, that’s correct.

So I guess the way – what I’m trying to figure out when I’m thinking about my model for fiscal '16 and beyond is does this ERP system generate savings on the gross margin line or is there any sort of offset or is it truly an additional 6 million on the SG&A line and margins are just permanently a little bit lower by that 6 million.

Well, I would say that for us, we have a platform for growth and our goal is to be able to grow out of this additional costs and we think we will. We think we’ll be able to grow out of this in a reasonable timeframe. We have not factored in the efficiency cost savings from the SAP project.

Got it. So it is fair to think that there will probably be some SG&A leverage in the years to come?

Yes. And I would add one comment, Andrew, is that today we operate in these multiple geographies with about six different IT systems. So it’s fair to say that we can be more efficient and there are some other ways that we can utilize a single system to facilitate additional growth such as acquisitions and that’s something that we decided a long time ago, we needed to move to. So this has been a longtime planning, as you know, and we do believe though that we wouldn’t have made this decision if we didn’t believe we could grow through this expense over time.

Got it. That’s makes a lot of sense. Just a last one for me, I’m sure we’ve asked this on previous calls, but the more big deals in the barcode and POS business, is that a structural change or a cyclical change you think? And maybe any just reasoning around that that you could help us understand would be great?

Yes. So we’ve had for a couple of quarters in a row we’ve had this go on. If you go back and just look over years, it was very common always in the December quarter for our point-of-sale business to have big deals. And so we saw that and it was a good sign that some of our larger customers who deal with larger retailers and some of the barcode customers with more of a retail phenomenon that we saw products sold, systems replaced and so we believe – and this was primarily a North America phenomenon that it was a sign that there is some replacement going on in the retail space and our customers took advantage of that. And it’s typical for it to happen in the December quarter even though most people would think retailers are busy. Well, that’s generally when they buy because they want to negotiate incentives in that quarter.

Got it. And actually just one from me. If I just sort of assume Imago was 20 million in the quarter, the international business didn’t grow as strongly as the U.S. and you made that comment about Europe being pretty solid in barcode. Is there any sort of pronounced weakness in markets outside the U.S. and Europe that might be a concern from a macro perspective?

Well, don’t forget the 16 million on the translation of the currency, right, that’s a big part of it. So if you didn’t have that going on, I would say no, it’s pretty normal; pretty normal balance of business across the markets.

Got it. All right, great. Thank you very much.

Thanks.

I’m not showing any further questions at this time. I’d like to turn the call back over to management for closing remarks.

Great. Thanks for joining us today. We expect to hold our next conference call to discuss March 31 quarterly earnings results on April 30, 2015.