Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated
Aquiring bottlers in the region to improve Coca-Cola operations & distribution
Profile
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| 10 | MONTHS SERVICED | 6 | PROJECTS SERVED | ||||
| 2 | ($MM) PORTTFOLIO MANAGED |
20 | SOLUTIONS BUILT | ||||
| 1 | (PETABYTES) DATA MANAGED |
6 | APPLICATIONS MODERNIZED | ||||
Project Goals
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Modernize OSS Platform
Upgrade or retire current-state to embrace newer technologies establishing standards for target-state |
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Integrate HCM Systems
Adopt standard to ensure compatible data between bottlers to reduce inaccurate information |
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Automate Systems
Alleviate human intervention for self-service & adopt automated analytical processing |
Time Well Spent
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Acquisition
Effort requires extensive work verifying that systems are compatible & standards are the same to ensure accurate consumption of data resulting in correct calculation, procesing to generate reliable outputs in operations, HCM (payroll, benefits, taxes) & distribution (JIT/logistics) data.
SAP Conversion
Adopting cloud & HANA resources improves functions, services & operations to enable supporting a regional system where bottling & distribution can be improved to meet growing needs for complex consumption mechanics & new products.
CCBCC: OFFERING BOTTLING PARTNERS OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
In 2013, Coca-Cola embarked on an initiative to re-franchise its bottlers and consolidate many retiring businesses under an acquisition program intended on improving its current operations by offering key firms to acquire bottlers because these key operators are best at what they do. The CONA program was devised to help integrate operations are areas that include operations, logistics, distribution, payroll (HCM, taxes), billing & system support. The integrated platforms resulted in lower TCO, centralized HCM including benefits, compensation, taxes & billing.
I was hired to lead the merger and acquisitions of regional bottlers with an explicit focus on HCM programs. I was able to develop Agile based enterprise DOT.NET/C# BI/EAI solutions to service the acquisitions of new territories that supports SAP/HR payroll and generates bi-directional feds to SAP enterprise subsystems, internal OSS resources, payroll services, downstream HR providers, taxing agencies and external trading partners. This requires deep-dives into systems, documenting data components, flow of information, distribution processes to provide a level of BAU (business-as-usual) that will sustain or improve operations to ensure integrating bottlers will continue to function normally, which includes the critical enrollment to HR benefits & calculation of compensation & taxes.
CONA: FRAMEWORK FOR SEAMLESS INTEGRATION
The effort involved discovery, JAD & deep-dives into data to design a transformation framework that created the tools, coding patterns & standards to lay the groundwork necessary for integrating future cycles of integration work, reducing any re-work, while ensuring secure, reliable, verifiable solutions that is highly configurable. Modernization, simplification & standardization make the entire experience architecturally equitable, but it also ensured that data quality management practices offered the means for compliance.
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The migration to cloud technologies leveraging vendor/provider services alleviates overall computing as benefits, compensation & personnel data will be dispositioned and allow external systems to perform many of operations at an affordable cost, leveraging the required security, functions that meets compliance & continously offering improvements that benefits bottlers. The established model, data structures, interfaces, transport & security offers future generations of bottlers a clear advantage of doing business & paving the way for highly configurable integrations that can be easily modified, tested, validated & put into operation quickly and with its architecture documented for solutioning.
