The Coca-Cola Company was founded on May 8, 1886, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
It is the largest beverage company globally. With 48% of the global market share and two of the world’s top three beverages. Coca-cola is number one, Pepsi is number two, and low-calorie coca-cola is number three.
Coca-cola has 160 beverage brands in 200 countries. These include soft drinks, sports drinks, dairy drinks, fruit juices, tea, and coffee.
It is also the world’s largest juice drink distributor (including the Minute Maid brand).
Coca-cola, number one in the United States, has a market share of more than 40 per cent.
Sprite is the fastest-growing drink, with others including Barq’s root beer.
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01.
Supply chain model
DOIP, short for Demand, Operations, and Inventory Planning. It is Coca-Cola’s innovative supply chain management model. Which is more flexible than the traditional SOP model and has four main advantages:
1. Increase production through quality service
2. Forecasting current and future sales volume
3. Identify complementary promotions and potential sales volumes
4. Reduce operating costs by balancing the scale of supply and demand
02.
Supply Chain Structure
03.
Current state of procurement management
Coca-Cola plays a leading role in selecting suppliers of critical raw materials. Including sugar and packaging. Coca-Cola chooses a group of approved suppliers based on these standards. Including their location, size, equipment level, management level, supply and demand for raw materials. The bottling plant can only buy raw materials from these approved suppliers. The primary basis for Coca-Cola to select these suppliers is the quality of raw materials. Based on this, other factors are considered. These factors are controlled to reduce costs.
Coca-Cola enforces service and monitoring at all levels through a strict supply chain management system and service specifications. These links include bottlers, distributors, and retailers. Through regular reviews of each distributor and retailer, product information is collected. Their operational services are guided based on the review results and feedback. Realize the advantages of cooperative competition. The Coca-Cola Company passes on production costs to partners and consumers through the supply chain reasonably. These include concentrate manufacturers, bottlers, distributors, retailers, and consumers. The resources of all parties were well utilized to seize the market opportunity.
04.
Current status of production planning and control
Inventory management - ABC management method
Minimum inventory of A products: 5 days (6 weeks rolling average daily sales * 5)
Minimum inventory of B products: 12 days (6 weeks rolling average daily sales * 12)
Minimum stock of product C: 20 days (6-week rolling average daily sales * 20)
Order quantity = minimum inventory * adjustment factor – current inventory
(Adjustment factor is generally 1.1/1.0)
The channel system
Coca-Cola’s channel system includes four channels:
Wholesale channel, ka channel, 101 channel, and direct channel.
- The Coca-Cola Key Account Department is responsible for the operation of the ka channel;
- The sales department is responsible for the operation of the 101 channel and the wholesale channel.
The difference between the 101 channel and the wholesale channel is that Coca-Cola salesmen directly control the terminals under the 101 channel. They cannot control the network of terminals under the wholesale channel. - The direct channel includes Coca-Cola’s direct restaurant channel, school channel, tourist attractions, etc.
05.
Logistics Status
Production logistics
Receiving material inspection receiving process
Flowchart of material receiving operation.
Product warehousing process.
- Fill out the finished product delivery inspection form；
- Finished product inspection；
- Send to warehouse；
- The warehouse manager counts and signs the receipt；
- Warehouse clerk into the warehouse；
- Make accounts and clear the documents.
Notice of shipping operation
Sales Logistics
After-sales logistics
1. Whether it is cans or bottles, whenever and wherever customers need goods, Coca-Cola’s local branch can always send the goods out from the warehouse quickly.
2. The loading structure designed by Coca-Cola is also suitable for transfer and placement, which meets the needs of many customers, and the importance of both volume and storage is reflected here. Each transaction has a detailed list, so there is no need to worry about the deviation of the transaction.
06.
Partners
Coca-Cola has three major partners in China: Kerry Group, Swire Group and COFCO Group, with a total of 33 bottling plants located in different regions of the country.
Concentrate Plant
The basic ingredients (excluding sugar and high fructose grain syrup) are mixed together, packaged in plastic bottles, and transported to the bottling plant. The biggest costs are in advertising, marketing and relations with the bottling plant. Machinery, production costs and labor represent only a small portion of the investment.
Coca-Cola purchases concentrates, add carbonated water and syrups, bottle and can these beverages, and deliver them to customers everywhere, including a “direct-to-home” delivery service in which salespeople are directly involved and manage the placement of beverages in stores.
Bottling plant structure
Sugar melting pot
The sugar melting pot is typically used to dissolve white granular sugar and then mix it with water and heat it to produce syrup, which is handy for deployment. At the same time, the top of the sugar melting pot’s stirring system helps to speed up the melting process and ensure a more uniform syrup.
Preparation tank
The mixing tank, often referred to as a mixing tank or a mixing tank, offers several benefits such as energy savings, corrosion resistance, high output capacity, simple maintenance, and easy cleaning. It is an essential tool for dairy and food processes.
Syrup filter
The fruit juice, beverages, and water may all be filtered with this modified version of the syrup filter, which is designed to work with syrup filter media. The filter medium can also include perlite, activated carbon, or other mineral alternatives.
Water chiller
The chiller is used to add a pre-determined quantity of water to the internal water tank of the machine, which will be cooled by the cooling system. The low-temperature frozen water will be injected into the equipment that needs to be cooled by means of the circulating water pump within the machine, and then chilled water will remove heat from device.
Plate heat exchanger
The plate heat exchanger is a compact and easy-to-install device that has several beneficial features. It’s utilized in district heating, food processing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, electric power generation, metallurgy, among other industries
Beverage mixer
The beverage mixer is carefully and precisely engineered to raise the water, syrup, and carbon dioxide proportions. It employs cutting-edge foreign technology – a static mixer to thin the water layer, extend carbonization time, and guarantee beverage mixing. It also serves the function of deoxygenation; high-quality water pumps and electrical equipment form a whole automated control system with advantages of synchronized action, attractive appearance, simple maintenance, and high automation. Soft and hard drinks are among them.
CIP cleaning system
CIP cleaning is a method of cleaning production equipment in place (clean-in-place). CIP cleaning is a safe and automated technique for removing waste that does not harm manufacturing equipment. It’s been introduced to almost every food, beverage, and pharmaceutical factory.CIP cleaning not only cleans the equipment, but it also destroys germs.
A beverage filling machine, often called a bottle filler, is a plastic bottle beverage filling machine that automates the process of filling and capping bottles. It’s also a multi-functional drink filling machine with many functions. It’s a new kind of filler that can fill carbonated beverages such as soda water, salt soda, and other carbonated drinks
Bottle warmer
The bottle warmer is a tunnel-type spray equipment that heats the bottle using circulating spray hot water as a heat exchange. There are three fixed temperature zones (additional temperature zones may be added). The beverage center’s temperature rises to normal after divided heating.The bottle warmer’s inlet and outlet are dynamically transitioned to aid in the reduction of squeezing and pouring, as well as manual input.
Blow Dryer
The machine employs cutting-edge air knife technology, no heating is required, and the performance is reliable. According to the height of the bottle, the drying position can be raised and lowered. The machine may be used to dry a wide range of bottle shapes while producing no pollution from brushes. At the same time, the brush replacement cost is eliminated, and the equipment has no wearing components, making it an ideal drying equipment.
Sleeve labeling machine (beverage labelling machine)
Remove the paper from the roll and attach it to the bottle in the appropriate location. This label design has a beautiful, strong, and will not fall off on its own. The sleeve labeling machine produces high volume output. The label is applied to the bottle during manufacture, then pressure or heat shrinkage is used to finish the process.
shrink wrap machine for bottles (bundle wrapping machines)
Tear off the roll label paper while holding it perpendicular to the bottle, and adhere it in place. This labeling method uses beautiful and sturdy labels that won’t slip off on their own. After wrapping the bottle with a sleeve, you can use either heat shrinking or pressure shrinking to shrink the label for a perfect finish.
Distributors
Coca-Cola products are large-volume, low-priced consumer goods, usually sold through a large number of street retail stores, large and small supermarkets, stores and other places, so its supply chain distributors include a variety of food wholesalers, and mega supermarkets, large supermarket chains, etc.
07.
Performance Evaluation
Aspects affecting Coca-Cola's performance management.
- Developing Performance Plans
- Performance Implementation and Management
- Performance Appraisal and Evaluation
- Performance Feedback
Principles for designing a performance appraisal index system.
- Scientific Principle
- Systematization Principle
- Generalization principle
- Practicality principle
- Goal-oriented principle
- Personality principle
08.
Summary
From the Coca-Cola supply chain, it can be seen that for a company’s supply chain to be successful, it has to.
Companies must have core competencies and secret weapons, otherwise the management and influence on the supply chain will pale in comparison. Coca-Cola’s core competitiveness lies in its secret formula, well-known brands and management resources are different.
Supply chain management should always be adjusted around the “user-centered”.
Cooperation and competition is the main theme of supply chain management, cooperation is the essence of supply chain management, is to achieve a win-win situation and the foundation. In the supply chain, different companies have to play different roles and establish long-term partnership with each other.
09.
Wrapping Up
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