It Implementation at Pepsico

Case Study on PepsiCo

Version 0.0: 09/03/2010

Presented by: Mayank Kapur (09PGDM025)

Company profile

Name | PEPSICO |

Address | 3B, DLF Corporate Park, 'S' Block, Qutab Enclave, Phase-III |

City, state, ZIP Code | Gurgaon-122002, Haryana |

Phone number | 0124-2880699 |

Web site address | www.pepsiindia.co.in |

Industry | Food and Non-alcoholic beverages |

Number of employees | Over 198000 |

Annual revenue | US $43 billion |

Case Study for PEPSICO

Company profile

Earlier known as Pepsi Cola Company founded in 1898, PepsiCo was the result of a successful merger of Pepsi Cola with Frito Lay in 1965. Headquartered in Purchase, New York, with Research and Development Headquarters in Valhalla, PepsiCo is into manufacturing and marketing a range of carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, salty, sweet and grain-based snacks, and other foods.

PepsiCo is a Fortune 500 American multinational with the net revenue of more than US $43 billion and over 198000 employees in 2009. PepsiCo owned 5 different billion dollar brands namely:

* Pepsi,

* Tropicana,

* Frito-Lay,

* Quaker, and

* Gatorade.

Apart from them, the company owns many other brands as well. PepsiCo has also been in partnership with various other brands like Lipton ice tea, Starbucks iced coffee etc. to distribute or market these brands with its own brands.

IT at PepsiCo

To keep abreast with the latest technologies in the market, PepsiCo has been continuously developing its IT infrastructure. Quoting Manish Gupta, Chief Information Officer, Pepsi Foods, India:

“Security has always been the key issue for us and we deploy latest technologies to safeguard our interests.”

IT department in the company is responsible for improving the speed of decision-making, accuracy of information, transfer of knowledge across the business dimensions and improving the flexibility of doing business.

Early ERP solutions

In 2004, Pepsi had implemented SAP enterprise...