Case Study: Flex streamlines its global workforce, cuts total cost of ownership 30%, and gains real-time analytics with Workday Adaptive Planning

Flex maintains simplicity with a single system for its global workforce

Flex, a leading electronics manufacturing services provider with roughly 200,000 employees across 30 countries, faced a fragmented HR landscape after a decade of acquisitions—operating some 80 different HR systems that were expensive, inconsistent, and not scalable. The company needed a simple, global way to manage talent, gain real-time workforce visibility, and enable rapid redeployment of people and resources as markets shifted.

Flex adopted Workday’s cloud HCM to create a single global system of record with intuitive self-service, multi‑country support, and real-time analytics. The result: global reporting that once took weeks now runs in minutes, HR was freed to focus on strategy, total cost of ownership fell about 30%, and implementation finished ahead of schedule and below budget—improving decision-making and competitiveness worldwide.

Flex

Mike McNamara

Chief Executive Officer