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Industry Trends and Challenges
Coke bottlers around the world face similar challenges as they grow and play a critical role in the Coca-Cola global brand and enterprise. As supply chain responsibilities increase, so do the challenges, including:
Managing capacity limitations make it hard to execute on customer promises and financial goals.
Labor and material shortages create disruptions in product supply and delivery.
Timely delivery of product to meet the OTIF goals.
Utilization of capital and resources needs to be managed carefully.
Equipment uptime is essential for customer satisfaction and revenue.
Technician productivity needs to be maximized given shortage and high cost of labor.
Part availability is critical but also expensive, slow-moving capital.
Minimizing beverage returns is important due to high delivery cost.
All this, with a shortage of supply chain talent and often suboptimal tools. IT organizations have their own goals for managing talent and technology architecture. That is why flexible platforms, serving many functions designed to address the above challenges can be the answer to what bottlers need.
ketteQ Solutions
ketteQ offers 3 solution sets that address the challenges faced by most Coke bottlers. We collaborate with you to find the best starting point, based on value potential, readiness and budget, and work at your pace to deliver and grow value.
Demand Planning
Improve demand forecasting to generate a more accurate demand signal. Enhance collaboration with retailers/distributors to shape demand in order to match supply or meet revenue targets.
Inventory Planning
Plan for the right amount of inventory in warehouses to meet demand and lower inventory costs.
Production Planning
Track, plan, and manage production capacity to minimize demand-supply imbalances.
Materials Planning
Create an optimal inventory and procurement plan to ensure timely availability of raw materials from you global supply base.
Control Tower/On Time Delivery (OTIF)
Synchronize demand, inventory, and transportation planning, and track and respond to delivery issues in real time to consistently meet delivery deadlines.
Fulfillment & Allocation
Optimally allocate available inventory and capacity to prioritize higher margin products and more important customers.
Parts Planning
Simulate and implement an optimal spare parts stocking plan across the distribution network including technician truck stock to maximize part availability and reduce equipment downtime.
Service and Parts Delivery Control Tower
Track part and technician availability to quickly respond to equipment failures and minimize equipment downtime. Monitor key Service KPIs including part inventory costs, technician productivity, response time, and service delivery cost.
Digital Work Order Management
Create and manage multiple work orders types including equipment repair, refurbishment, quality checks, withdrawal, and installation. Mobile interface for technicians to review, update and close work orders reduces manual paper-based processes and enhances technician productivity.
Asset Management
Up-to-date asset information and status tracking with IoT data feeds and analytics keeps everyone focused on equipment uptime, revenue impact and product replenishment planning.
ketteQ Value Proposal
Supply Chain Operations
- The ketteQ platform improves demand, inventory, replenishment, production and materials management, as well as provides better visibility and collaboration across functions.
- Each ketteQ solution delivers a set of improved supply chain KPIs that unlock revenue growth, increase profit margin and generate additional cash for the business.
- The ketteQ solutions are all built on a single data model and architecture, but can be deployed separately, thereby offering both speed and scale.
- The flexible cloud-native architecture uses standard technology and tools that are already supported by most IT organizations, adding to the speed of deployment and configurability to meet any specific use case or requirements.
Finance
- ketteQ enables the right balance of financial results and improvements in revenue, margin and cash. ketteQ allows configuration of strategies and workflow to emphasize financial priorities at any given time.
- ketteQ also provides improved visibility to better predict financial performance given demand/sales reconciliation with the realities of operational constraints and readiness.
IT
- IT can finally clean up all the spreadsheets and legacy tools that are typically found across these operations, and benefit from the Salesforce and AWS clouds used by ketteQ.
- For those companies that have investments in Salesforce and/or AWS, ketteQ can help unlock synergies in user/workflow and data/analytics of other solutions on these clouds.
- ketteQ is built and deployed with standard and non-proprietary skills and architecture, enabling faster deployment and lower production support costs.
Equipment Service
- Parts planning capabilities make sure the right inventory is available when and where needed, with minimal excess.
- Service and part delivery manages and execute digital work orders to ensure efficient service delivery.
- Equipment management leverages IoT to manage maintenance, uptime, utilization and revenue impact.
Sales
- ketteQ Improves competitiveness with shorter lead times and setting better promise dates to customer orders.
- Grow revenue with improved customer satisfaction and loyalty with more on time deliveries and better communications.
- Grow revenue and margins with improved sales organization productivity and effectiveness using alignment of pipeline priorities to supply availability and readiness, i.e. “sell what you have”
Don’t Take Our Word For it, Take Theirs
“This a co-partnership between ketteQ, Genpact, and CCBJI. We are learning what partners can do for us and the power of partners to help bring in the best technology and processes. It’s a good match.”
Improved planner productivity and better-informed business decisions, resulting in better product availability and higher revenue and profits.
CCBJI saw a reduction in system-wide inventory and an increase in the availability of parts, along with faster resolution time for work requests.
Many Sources of Value
Better Inventory availability
Shorter fulfillment lead times
Better demand signal
Improved On Time in Full (OTIF) delivery
Better delivery promise dates
Reduced OTIF Penalties
Better financial predictability
Productivity Improvements
Lower inbound transportation costs
Lower intra-network transfer costs
Lower outbound expediting costs
Improved S&OP processes
What-if simulations
Better Supply Performance
Improved service delivery
Better capacity utilization
Lower excess and obsolete write-offs
