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If you enjoy your soft drinks and chips, there’s no way you have missed a PepsiCo product.
In fact, that’s an understatement. There is a high chance you debate over favourite flavours with your friends.
With over 1.4 billion sales a day, PepsiCo is one of the largest food and beverage companies.
Plus the brand has all the numbers you’d expect from an enterprise. 400,000 retail outlets, 250,000 employees, $196.50 billion market cap, 60 petabytes of data growing at 2x a year, you name it.
In today’s AI at the Top, we will learn about PepsiCo’s AI partnerships, use cases, and tangible results at its massive scale.
What is PepsiCo’s AI play?
Unlike JPMorgan Chase which built most of its servers, cloud, agents, and tools in-house, PepsiCo invested in its tech enterprise partners to strengthen the AI game.
Think AWS, Salesforce, NVIDIA, and even select startups for niche solutions.
The company’s focus is on enterprise-wide value chain integration instead of excelling in a specific domain like its competitors.
Coca-Cola’s AI focus is on marketing and CX. Nestle is into supply chain and R&D.
PepsiCo believes its end-to-end strategy connects the entire value chain with a single, intelligent thread and a common set of objectives.