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Coca-Cola Supply Chain Firm Expands Blockchain Effort to 70 Partners
The firm organizing Coca-Cola's bottle manufacturing and distribution is scaling up its blockchain pilot after finding early benefits.
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 11:40 a.m. Published Nov 5, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
The IT firm behind Coca-Cola’s bottle manufacturing supply chain processes looks to be getting a taste for blockchain technology.
Coke One North America (CONA) says its pilot project with software provider SAP is now set to be expanded from two to 70 of the manufacturers that deliver the 160,000 bottles Coca-Cola shops daily, Business Insider reported on Tuesday.
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The blockchain project promises to improve distribution for the participants, as all manufacturers can access a permissioned blockchain containing each others' orders, capabilities and requirements. For example, if a bottle maker is short of stock for a looming order, the network quickly provides options for filling shortfall. CONA told BI it hopes to reduce order reconciliation days from weeks to just days.
"There are a number of transactions that are cross-companies and multi-party that are inefficient, they go through intermediaries, they are very slow,” senior manager at Coke One North America Andrei Semenov told BI. “And we felt that we could improve this and save some money.”
The pilot program’s initial positive results meant not only more bottles shipped, but more companies coming to SAP’s platform, as per the report. Semenov said that CONA has its eyes set on working with commerce giants Walmart and Target as a result, though scaling to work with those firms' supply chains would be a difficult undertaking, he noted.
"What we achieved here with blockchain is creating a document flow across the supply chain," said Torsten Zube, head of SAP’s Innovation Center Network.
Coca-Cola's prime competitor PepsiCo also conducted a blockchain trial that the firm claimed in May had raised efficiency by 28 percent. Dubbed "Project Proton," the supply chain trial was run on Zilliqa’s blockchain platform.
Coca-Cola bottles image via Shutterstock
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