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Coca-Cola Refreshments, U.S.

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
  • Canada
Product
  • webMethods Business Process Management Suite
  • webMethods Integration Server
  • webMethods Broker
  • webMethods Optimize for Process
Tech Stack
  • Business Process Management
  • Integration Server
  • Broker
  • Optimize for Process
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Cost Savings
Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
  • Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Maintenance
Use Cases
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Asset Health Management (AHM)
Services
  • System Integration
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Coca-Cola Refreshments is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, which is the world's largest beverage company in business for more than 126 years with 146,200 associates. The company had a net revenue of $46.5 billion in 2011. Coca-Cola Refreshments is a 21st-century bottling and customer service operation in the U.S. and Canada. The company owns and manages Coca-Cola® branded refrigerators in retail establishments.
The Challenge
Coca-Cola Refreshments owns and manages Coca-Cola® branded refrigerators in retail establishments. If repairs are needed, equipment may end up at the Make Ready Center. If the equipment can’t be repaired, it may be scrapped. In the past, this meant logging onto legacy systems on multiple servers to locate equipment information, record repair actions and change equipment status. The process was manual, error-prone and took up to eight hours to update information on 30-40 units. The company had no overall visibility into equipment status or maintenance history.
The Solution
Coca-Cola Refreshments found a new thirst for Business Process Management (BPM) with this process automation project. Not only has the company automated the process, it has gained new visibility in equipment use that can improve the bottom line. Now, when equipment arrives at a repair center, associates use a wireless scanner to log up to 60 units at a time. Then they go to a desktop application to assign actions from a standard list. Every piece of equipment goes through a complete cycle of checks, and data is recorded to create a single record on the equipment’s life cycle. The solution incorporates webMethods Business Process Management Suite, Integration Server and Broker. webMethods Optimize for Process tracks how long the batch transmissions take, aids in error handling, keeps count of how many units are moved and captures data to identify opportunities for continued process improvement. Web service calls use the equipment number to gather metadata about the unit from the AS-400-based legacy application, which remains the system of record.
Operational Impact
  • The process that used to take up to eight hours can now be accomplished in minutes—a 98 percent improvement.
  • There’s minimal manual work, rework, duplication of data and errors.
  • Coca-Cola Refreshments can now track the movement and history of each unit to avoid lost equipment, identify trends and uncover troublesome recurring issues.
Quantitative Benefit
  • 98% improvement in process time
  • Significant reduction in manual work, rework, duplication of data and errors

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