Case Study: PepsiCo accelerates global production planning with FICO Xpress

PepsiCo cuts production solve times by 30% with FICO

PepsiCo, a global food and beverage leader, relied on FICO's optimization technology to manage the immense complexity of its worldwide manufacturing and logistics operations. The challenge involved efficiently scheduling production across dozens of manufacturing sites and tackling hundreds of large-scale, mathematically complex planning scenarios every single day to maintain accuracy and speed.

By implementing FICO Xpress Optimization as its core decision-making engine, PepsiCo achieved remarkable results. The solution enabled the execution of 400-500 large-scale models daily, leading to a 30% reduction in solve times through solver tuning and a further 15% improvement with a software upgrade. Most notably, FICO helped PepsiCo reduce staff planning cycles from several days to under five minutes for the majority of cases, dramatically increasing operational efficiency across its global footprint.

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