Supply Chain Management of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo: A Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of supply chain management, focusing on the practices of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. It explores the role of information systems in enhancing their supply chains, including the use of ERP systems and mobile worker functionalities. The report also examines e-procurement and IT systems within Wal-Mart and Amazon, comparing their approaches to those of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of various supply chain management strategies. The discussion includes the impact of IT on organizational services, the benefits of e-procurement, and the importance of operational efficiency. The report concludes by highlighting the crucial role of supply chain management in planning, manufacturing, and ensuring the sustainability of businesses, emphasizing the significance of incorporating information systems for improved organizational performance.

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Executive Summary:
This report will discuss regarding the contribution of the information system of the Coca-Cola
Company and the PepsiCo and also its supply chain management. This report also discusses
regarding the e-procurement and also the IT systems for the supply chain management of the
Wal-Mart and Amazon. It also discusses regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the
supply chain management.

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Introduction
Supply Chain management is the most important component of an enterprise solutions for
today. It ensures the members of the upstream and also the downstream of the chain of a
particular company. The goal of the implementation of the Coca-Cola and PepsiCo has the
information to store and the level of the improvement in the retail of the customer relationships
(Christopher, 2016). This report is going to discuss the supply chain management of the
company named Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. This report also discusses regarding the e-procurement
and the Information Technology support for the supply chain management of the organization
named Wal-Mart and Amazon.
Discussion
Supply chain management is very systematic and the coordination of the traditional
functions related to the business and also the tactics of the business functions inside a particular
company. Both the PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are running the different ERP and supply chain
management systems including the different SAP R/3 material and also the application related to
the production planning (Hugos, 2018). These software are not able to connect for storing and
delivering with the back-end systems. The agreement between the Coca-Cola and the SAP is
trying to remove the inefficiencies and more automation in the extended process from the
producer to the Retailer. There will be the cost and time savings and also the opportunity to
increase elimination of the difficulty.
The data integration of the project can be tackled by providing the functionality of the
mobile worker so that data inserted into the mobile device is either shifted automatically (Heizer,

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Render and Munson, 2017). The brand-new application of the company will help for the
improvement of the management of the machine. This system can efficiently upload and
download the information related to the sales using the smart phone. This can be updated with
the help of the ‘Electronic tracking technology’. The example of this includes radio frequency
identification tagging. The supply chain of the PepsiCo and Coca-Cola is responsible for the
planning, manufacturing, engineering and also the sustainability of the company (Fahimnia,
Sarkis and Davarzani, 2015). It plays a very important role. Followed by the case scenario of the
mentioned organization PepsiCo it is observed that the incorporation of the information system
into the business structure holds significant impact related to the betterment of the organizational
services. Considering the impact of Information Technology system into the business structure of
Coca- Cola below mentioned aspects are accounted:
 Considering the progress of the competition the incorporation of Information
Technology system holds significant impact as it as it offers the organization to analyze
the services of other organizations in order to determine most effective solution which
will help them to improve their organizational services.
 Followed by the above impact the incorporation of Information Technology systems into
the organizational services enables the organization to effectively share and integrate the
organizational data among all the functional as well as non- functional unit of the
mentioned organization which will help the organization to provide more customized
and effective services to their customers (Wang et al., 2016).
 F\Along with the above mentioned aspects it is also observed that incorporation of the
Information Technology systems into the organizational structure holds significant
impact related to the development of any updated system as in the new organizational

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structure it is very easy to put list of requirements and develop the required system
followed by the functionalities of the ERP system.
 Apart from the above services it has been also observed that the incorporation of the
approached system will help the organizational authorities to reduce the extra cost by
eliminating unnecessary employs as the approached system has several integrated
services into a single functional activity (Genovese et al., 2017).
 Along with that the incorporation of the mentioned approach helps the organization to
analyze the customer information which helps the organizational to effectively analyze
and determine more customized services to their customers which holds a direct impact
on the services and the profits of the organization Coca-Cola.
After a thorough investigation on the benefits of the incorporation of the Information
Technology system and supply chain in the organization PepsiCo it has been noticed that, it
has offered several benefits to the mentioned organization in terms of enhancing their work
flow as well as by improving the services of PepsiCo. Followed by the above discussion a
comparison between the impact of the e-procurement and supply chain of Coca-Cola with
other two organization such as Wal-Mart and Amazon is mentioned below:
 Along with the incorporation of IT in the supply chain management it has been also
noticed that there is a significant impact of e-procurement in the production
business (Pettit, Croxton and Fiksel, 2019). As by analyzing the services and the
functionalities of the organization Amazon as well as Walmart it has been noticed
that similar to the organization Coca-Cola it has reduces unnecessary cost of the
organization by reducing the expenses on the external supply chain factors.

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 Followed by the above mentioned aspect it has been also noticed that in the
operations of the mentioned three organization e-procurement has effectively
invoked their work flow developing a centralized transaction which helps all the
functional as well as non-functional parts of these organizations to effectively
access to the useful information to deliver more efficient services to the customer
(Jabbour and Sousa, 2016).
 Along with that it has also improved the productivity of the organizations by
making it integrated and fast.
 Followed by all the above aspects the incorporation of the mentioned technology
has significant impact on the effectiveness of the delivered products as the entire
process is integrated which holds less probability of the occurrence of error.
Conclusion:
Thus, it can be concluded from the above report that the supply chain of the PepsiCo and
Coca-Cola is responsible for the planning, manufacturing, engineering and also the sustainability
of the company. It plays a very important role. Followed by the case scenario of the mentioned
organizations, it is observed that the incorporation of the information system into the business
structure holds significant impact related to the betterment of the organizational services.

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