SupplyChain Magazine December 2019 | Page 176

PEPSICO
176 and more . Focusing on safety and making sure hard braking , hard cornering , inefficient acceleration and so forth are reduced has reaped myriad benefits , improving the employee experience along with wider ranging results . Beyond safety , the new fleet management system has a much broader reach : the platform pilot is seeing a reduction of 10 % in both idling and travel distance , significantly reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions . The implications for enhanced sustainability are a particular boon as consumers around the globe become more conscious of the environmental impacts of the products they buy .
The firm ’ s strong partnership management is tied into the success of its new fleet management capabilities , too . Leveraging key relationships with expert fleet managers to augment its ability to build and deploy customized systems has enabled PepsiCo to boost efficiency , automatic dispatching , roadside assistance , and more . These efforts have resulted in a 90 % reduction in

“ IT ’ S CLEAR THAT THE POTENT INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGIES AND BLENDING OF THEIR CAPABILITIES HAS BEEN KEY TO PEPSICO LATAM ’ S SUCCESS ”

DECEMBER 2019