Pepsico Tackles North American Transportation Sourcing Challenges
PepsiCo's North American truckload network includes all inbound and outbound truckload shipments for Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay North America and Pepsi Cola North America, consisting of 8,000 lanes of traffic and a multi-million dollar spend. To navigate through the complex process of transportation sourcing and gain substantial cost savings in a market plagued by rising fuel costs, PepsiCo turned to CombineNet for advanced transportation sourcing. CombineNet's ASAP facilitates an approach to strategic sourcing called Expressive Commerce; combining the interaction and expressiveness of traditional face-to-face negotiations with the speed and scale of internet technologies. The company expects the CombineNet solution to provide the ability to collect and analyze expressive carrier proposals alongside business goals and operational constraints to identify the optimal transportation sourcing solution in seconds.
"CombineNet's advanced sourcing technologies provide the flexibility and advanced analysis capabilities we need to source our North American truckload network," says Barry Mulkay, director of Procurement and Carrier Operations, PepsiCo. "Based on our previous success with CombineNet technology, PepsiCo is pleased to be able to deploy CombineNet Truckload Manager for the next three years."
The company previously optimized its transportation network by using CombineNet's advanced sourcing technologies for its North American truckload transportation network in 2005.
