Modern data centers face many challenges, including time-to-market pressures, rising operational costs, complex inventory management, and increasing sustainability demands. Delays in deployment can negatively impact business operations, while transportation and logistics costs continue to rise. Additionally, maintaining inventory in a fluctuating market requires agility and confidence in scaling operations.
Flex’s supply chain solutions offer data center customers a strategic advantage by leveraging our global expertise, scale, and vertical integration. By partnering with Flex, data centers can benefit from proximity to customers for quicker market responses, reduced operational costs through streamlined logistics, and enhanced inventory management via regional centers that adapt to demand fluctuations. And our advanced digital supply chain tools and analytics empower data center customers to strategically reconfigure their supply chains, allowing for real-time insights and data-driven decision-making.
We enable data center companies to navigate the AI revolution through a unique portfolio of power products and integrated services across the product lifecycle to design, source, build, deliver, and manage data center infrastructure.
Faster time to market, lower cost of ownership
Data center optimization
Localized, global, resilient supply chain
Sustainable parts and asset recovery
Flexible design and engineering support with customer-led, join-design, or standards-based reference designs
Optimized supply chains that minimize disruptions and guarantee a steady flow of materials and components
End-to-end manufacturing services for deploying integrated data center racks and power products
Strategically located facilities in every region of the world to improve lead time, speed time-to-market, and lower freight costs
Circular economy solutions for data centers to advance sustainability goals through enhanced product longevity and waste reduction
Flex offers an array of critical power products designed to improve energy efficiency and performance in data center facilities. Anord Mardix, a Flex company, is a leading electrical engineering and manufacturing firm specializing in critical power solutions. With power pods, low-voltage switchgears, power distribution units, remote power panels, and busways, our products enable data center customers to reduce complexity and accelerate global deployment of critical power by lowering build times and costs. Our end-to-end engineered solution also comes with customized design and dedicated project management, ensuring partnership from manufacturing all the way through installation and service.
Anord Mardix offers an extensive product portfolio of reliable critical power solutions — including switchgear, busway, power distribution, and modular power systems, along with monitoring solutions and services — designed with and for the growing data center sector.
Flex supports the mass deployment of vertically integrated data center racks, from sourcing of materials and private-label components to the design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, fulfillment, and sustainable maintenance of servers, storage, racks, cabling, switches, busbars, power shelves, and battery back-up—all coupled with advanced cooling technologies to meet growing power density requirements.
We leverage our design and engineering expertise to provide standards-based reference designs, joint designs, or highly customized board, racks, and enclosures.
With a resilient, global supplier network, customizable component solutions, and a suite of digital tools, we help our data center customers mitigate risk and increase supply chain agility.
Our full suite of advanced manufacturing services includes vertically integrated assembly, metals and plastics expertise, automation, and other capabilities that optimize production and improve quality.
We operate a global network of fulfillment sites to shorten lead times, optimize cost, and improve supply chain sustainability. Through data-driven analysis, we help our customers visualize and model the best fulfillment strategy for their business.
Our circular economy solutions for data centers help our customers advance sustainability and maximize value recovery by taking products back for repair, refurbishment, or recycling.