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News Release from: WeSupply.com | Subject: OneTime
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 January 2007
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Coca Cola Amatil uses Wesupply to achieve ambitious supply chain target
Wesupply's OneTime technology has successfully put CCA on the front step of electronic supplier integration The business learning's from the project will allow CCA to keep pace with future developments in ESI and has placed the business in position to be able to further reduce costs across the supply chain
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is a major public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Headquartered in Sydney and operating in the Asia-Pacific region, CCA manufactures and distributes non-alcoholic ready to drink beverages and food products.
CCA has operations in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Fiji and Indonesia.
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Through the acquisition of SPC Ardmona in Australia, CCA now distributes products globally to countries including the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Germany.
CCA employs over 17, 000 people across our six countries of operation, 4,500 of these in Australia.
In Australia CCA manufactures and distributes the products of the Coca-Cola Company including Sprite, Fanta and Pump Water.
CCA also own a portfolio of beverage brands including Mount Franklin and Deep Spring.
In Australia and between 2003-2004 CCA acquired several companies.
These consisted of Neverfail, Peats Ridge Water, Crusta Fruit Juices, Quirks Australia, The Northern Territory Coca-Cola licence agreement and most recently SPC Ardmona who manufacture and distribute many of Australia's favourite food brands covering the categories of fruit, tomatoes, jams, sauces and snacks.
CCA purchases concentrate and beverage bases from The Coca-Cola Company to manufacture and distribute its trademarked products including Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, diet Coke, Vanilla Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Lift and POWERaDE.
CCA also owns a portfolio of its own beverage brands including Mount Franklin and Kirks.
The Coca-Cola Company markets directly to consumers, whereas CCA is concerned with manufacturing, distributing and building relationships with its customers.
The two companies work closely together in providing the number one choice for non-alcoholic beverages to consumers every time.
The Australian operation has recently embarked on a project to establish electronic links with its major suppliers, for the purpose of electronically exchanging business critical information such as material forecasts, delivery requirements, supplier delivery advices, receipt confirmations and inventory balances.
This project, to be known as Electronic Supplier Integration (ESI), is expected to drive supply chain efficiencies as automated processes replace processes heavily dependant on manual input.
Choosing the right electronic trading solution that meets the needs of customers and suppliers cannot be under-estimated - yet by far the most significant obstacle to electronic trading harmony is getting the suppliers to 'buy in' to the solution.
There are huge opportunities to reduce costs in any supply chain.
Building supply chains is more about establishing good relationships than implementing the right technology.
Wesupply has long recognised the human element and has dovetailed the technology for the perfect supplier community 'opt-in' using its OneTime Supplier Connect technology.
Wesupply was chosen as they met the following selection criteria:.
* Match of solution with CCA's stated functional requirements.
* Proven vendor and solution performance at established user reference sites.
* Strength and appropriateness of support available in Australasia.
* Price and performance, including fixed and ongoing costs.
* Ongoing solution scalability and flexibility.
* Solution design architecture and platform considerations.
Manual input and excessive labour requirements needed to provide material forecasts to suppliers so Wesupply OneTime automated the process by converting electronic forecast message from CCA into supplier preferred formats.
Output from CCA forecasting system integrated directly into supplier systems.
Labour requirements and error opportunities significantly reduced.
Advising CCA weekly and daily delivery requirements to suppliers involved manual input, duplication of documents consuming excessive labour at CCA and supplier with a high risk of input errors.
Wesupply OneTime automated the process by converting electronic delivery instruction messages from CCA into supplier preferred formats.
Output from CCA forecasting system integrated directly into supplier systems.
Labour requirements and error opportunities significantly reduced.
Manual entry of inbound materials receipts allowed errors which impacted inventory accuracy and caused disruption and delay to supplier payments.
Wesupply OneTime was introduced to process supplier Advance Shipping Notice messages (ASN's) which are converted from supplier format to CCA format and loaded directly to CCA's Oracle system.
Manual input reduced and inventory accuracy and supplier payment consistency significantly improved.
Inbound materials receipting errors gave rise to poor supplier invoice matching rates which delayed payments until disputes were resolved.
This activity consumed excessive and unnecessary labour at both CCA and suppliers with damage to supplier relationships.
An automatic process was introduced using Wesupply delivered ASNs and Receipt Confirmations within CCA.
Labour requirements and invoice disputes significantly reduced and supplier relationships improved.
Requirement for visibility into supplier inventory of CCA material poorly delivered by manual processes relying on communications by telephone or email.
Slow responses caused delays in the decision making process for production planning functions.
Wesupply Intelligent Trading web based functionality which, by regular automatic downloads, from supplier inventory systems, provided near real time access to accurate supplier inventories.
The client is looking to push the project out to a wider supplier base following a successful assessment period.
CCA has established a target of 90% of suppliers to be trading electronically via Wesupply by 2008, this is quite an ambitious target.
However due to Wesupply's scalability and flexibility the target should be achieved. Request a free brochure from WeSupply.com ...
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