Delivering Supply Chain Insight for the Intelligence Age

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John WrennCTO - IT

John WrennChief Technology Officer (CTO), Information Technology

John Wrenn is Chief Technology Officer, Information Technology

at Flex, the Sketch-to-Scale® solutions provider that designs and

builds Intelligent Products for a Connected World. Responsible for

developing Flex IT technology strategy and its successful execution

worldwide, John is focused on breakthrough solutions for critical

business challenges and delivering new digital services to customers,

creating competitive advantage through innovation-at-scale.

Originally from Ireland, John has held several Flex leadership

positions in IT within European Operations and Global Business

Segments before moving to Silicon Valley in 2012 to lead Enterprise

Solutions to this year. During 2018, John was honored by the Irish

Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) as one of the 2018 Silicon Valley

50 Irish-Americans making an impact in his field.

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Driving Efficient and Reliable Operations at Scale

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Flex is your Sketch-to-ScaleTM

solutions provider

that designs and builds intelligent products

to compete in the Age of IntelligenceTM

.

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Amazing View into this New Era

Medical

144

Automotive

130

Industrial

51

Home

Appliances

52

Capital

Equipment

101

Energy

76

Telecom

30

Enterprise

Compute

27

Wearables

21

Connected

Living

62

Mobile

9

Networking

34

Technologies Fueled by Cross-Industry Innovation

Artificial

Intelligence (AI)

Digital

Health

Smart

Cities

Autonomous/

Connected Cars

Cloud

Data Center

Augmented Reality/

Virtual Reality (AR/VR)5G/Telco

Cloud

Intelligent Asset

Tracking

Industrial AutomationConnected

Living

Our Customers across Industries

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Data AcquisitionMultiple Systems, Siloed Data,

Numerous disparate technologies

Real Time

Visualization

& Alerting• Identification

• Prioritization

Data Driven

Decision MakingCreating and Driving Action

The digital Supply Chain Revolution

HOW MUCH INVENTORY? INVENTORY

VALUE

data consolidation & processing

48hM U L T I P L E

S Y S T E M S

data prioritization & visualization

3 H O U R So v e r

action alignment

1WM U L T I P L E

P A R T I E S

& T O O L S

up to7DAYSPROCESSING TIME

INVENTORY VALUE

HOW MUCH INVENTORY?

Inventory management before PULSE

Inventory management

with PULSEdata consolidation & processing

AUTOMATED REAL

TIME INFORMATION

data prioritization & visualization

2MINUTESl e s s t h e n

action alignment

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5MINUTESPROCESSING

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Enterprise-wide

deployed visualizations

9Pulse

Centers

800+Campus

visits

5,500+Individual

users

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Flex Pulse awarded with Gartner’s

Supply Chainnovators AwardMay 2018

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Car Usage Option AIn an complex environment tools and systems are not

helpful without the right usage from people

Car Usage Option BTo achieve goals faster people need to see the bigger

picture following an agreed way of working to get the

best out of tools and systems

Tools and Systems are Useless without the Right Usage from People

● Visually Stunning – The solution stood out compared to our

in-house solutions when put up on the Screens.

● Ease of Use – We needed to present ideas quickly and Tableau

enabled that without having to make significant investments.

● Self Service – IT’s responsibility was to ensure the necessary

information and technology was accessible. Business SMEs

focused on generating the right content and actionable insights.

● Social / Community Support – No other platform has this.

“How do I get my hamster out of the floorboards !”

Why Tableau

Tableau Server Configuration @ Flex

Prod 1

https://insight.flextronics.com

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Cores = 32

Sites = 2

Users > 6K

Workbooks > 600

Dashboards > 2K

GLOBAL PLANNING & SUPPLY CHAIN

FINANCEDESIGN and ENGINEERING

LEGAL

MARKETINGPEOPLE & RESOURCES

QUOTE & SALES

Business Supported Functions

Tableau Server Configuration @ Flex

Prod 2

https://insighttwo.flextronics.com

Non-Pulse

Cores = 64

Sites = 101

Users > 7K

Workbooks > 4K

Dashboards > 10K

303

Desktop

Designers

10,000

Seat Server Interactor SELA

Tableau @ Flex

Single Application vs. Platform

Design Prototype Data Exploration

Processes / Organization (Adoption)

Scale / InnovateSuccess Measure

Action Tracker

Platform Experience

Entry Point - Navigation Center

Mobile

2 months

Performance / Redesign

4 months 8 months 12 months 12 months

Tableau @ Flex ● Our Journey

Scale / Innovate

Alerting

NLP

Multi-Dimension Analytics (Immersive)

Predictive

Extensions API - Write Back (Tableau as an app)

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Flex Pulse ● Where We Are Going

“This is the world we live in. If you are

not real-time, collaborative, mobile and

multi-enterprise … you cannot survive”

– Mike McNamara CEO Flex

Creating a smarter, more connected world.