Yesterday, Business Insider
reported that the bottlers for Coca-Cola have adopted SAP’s blockchain platform. The project hopes to streamline the relationship between the 70 franchised bottling companies and was implemented by the tech partner to twelve of them, Coke One North America (CONA). With SAP’s solution, the CONA bottlers have increased transparency and efficiency in their intricate production line.
Update: there are now plans to integrate this Hyperledger Fabric solution with the Ethereum
Baseline Protocol.
CONA oversees the digital platform which manages the cola supply chain, while separate entity Coca-Cola does the marketing, budgeting, and owns the recipes. Combine this with multiple private bottlers across the US, which often trade with each other, and you get a complicated supply chain.
Thanks to SAP’s
blockchain, inventory information is stored immutably in a single platform. So there is a clear record of stock, meaning orders can be filled quickly and reliably. This also reduces reconciliation time; CONA hopes to see the typical 50 days decreased to under a week.
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