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Bottling Success

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Inventory Management Warehouse Automation
Challenge	Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd., an independent retail distributor and bottler of Pepsi-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple Group brands, was facing challenges with its immense number of stock-keeping units (SKUs). Rising wages, concerns around productivity, inventory visibility, breakage, and stock rotation led the company to evaluate its systems and seek new technology. The company decided to invest in a warehouse management system (WMS) and workforce management (WFM) technology to help reduce costs, improve processes, and enhance its relationship with union employees. Read More
About Customer	Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd. is an independent retail distributor and bottler of Pepsi-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple Group brands and many other nationally distributed waters and teas, including Canada Dry, Schweppes, 7UP, Snapple, Mott’s, Lipton and private-label brands. Based in New Jersey, Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd. distributes throughout the northeastern United States and manages a breadth and volume of offerings wider than the industry average. Read More
Solution	After a diligent market evaluation process, Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd. selected JDA Warehouse Management and JDA Warehouse Labor Management, from JDA Software’s Intelligent Fulfillment™ suite. The implementation of JDA’s workforce management solution replaced the company's paper-based systems that required manual interaction to calculate daily results. The new system created a database for each picker with a time-stamp using voice picking for every transaction within the picking task. This added total accountability for individual results based on the assigned task using predetermined engineered standards. The company also implemented practices such as FEFO (first expired, first out) to track the date of manufacture and calculate shelf life, reducing out-of-date product that previously had to be destroyed. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Warehouse Automation

Challenge

Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd., an independent retail distributor and bottler of Pepsi-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple Group brands, was facing challenges with its immense number of stock-keeping units (SKUs). Rising wages, concerns around productivity, inventory visibility, breakage, and stock rotation led the company to evaluate its systems and seek new technology. The company decided to invest in a warehouse management system (WMS) and workforce management (WFM) technology to help reduce costs, improve processes, and enhance its relationship with union employees.

About Customer

Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd. is an independent retail distributor and bottler of Pepsi-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple Group brands and many other nationally distributed waters and teas, including Canada Dry, Schweppes, 7UP, Snapple, Mott’s, Lipton and private-label brands. Based in New Jersey, Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd. distributes throughout the northeastern United States and manages a breadth and volume of offerings wider than the industry average.

Solution

After a diligent market evaluation process, Pepsi-Cola & National Brands Ltd. selected JDA Warehouse Management and JDA Warehouse Labor Management, from JDA Software’s Intelligent Fulfillment™ suite. The implementation of JDA’s workforce management solution replaced the company's paper-based systems that required manual interaction to calculate daily results. The new system created a database for each picker with a time-stamp using voice picking for every transaction within the picking task. This added total accountability for individual results based on the assigned task using predetermined engineered standards. The company also implemented practices such as FEFO (first expired, first out) to track the date of manufacture and calculate shelf life, reducing out-of-date product that previously had to be destroyed.

Impact #1	Achieved 100 percent inventory visibility
Impact #2	Reduced warehouse labor costs by 15 percent
Impact #3	Decreased shrinkage and breakage by 15-20 percent

Impact #1

Achieved 100 percent inventory visibility

Impact #2

Reduced warehouse labor costs by 15 percent

Impact #3

Decreased shrinkage and breakage by 15-20 percent

Benefit #1	Reduced warehouse wage expenses, excluding fringe benefits, by 15 percent in four years
Benefit #2	Reduced total warehouse headcount, including management, non-union and union, from 148 FTE to 112 FTE, representing a 24 percent decrease
Benefit #3	Reduced shrinkage and breakage by 15 to 20 percent

Benefit #1

Reduced warehouse wage expenses, excluding fringe benefits, by 15 percent in four years

Benefit #2

Reduced total warehouse headcount, including management, non-union and union, from 148 FTE to 112 FTE, representing a 24 percent decrease

Benefit #3

Reduced shrinkage and breakage by 15 to 20 percent

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Bottling Success

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