Beer Maker SABMiller Reduces Logistics Costs with Supply Chain Solutions

SABMiller Latin America, one of the largest brewers in Latin America, is using supply chain management solutions to reduce costs, improve service levels and decrease its impact on the environment. The beverage manufacturer, with such brands as Aguila in Colombia, Cristal in Peru, Pilsener in Ecuador and Atlas in Panama, operates 17 breweries and 16 bottling plants and employs a team of 16,200 people.

SABMiller has adopted transportation and logistics management solutions from JDA Software Group Inc., which are designed to minimize manual shipping processes, determine the lowest-cost transportation network that satisfies the company's objectives, enhance customer satisfaction and drive maximum efficiencies. Supporting closed-loop supply chain management and accelerating communication between planning and execution, the JDA Agile Business Process Platform will help the brewer to bring greater speed, agility, quality and cost efficiency to its supply chain.

"After an exhaustive, two-year process evaluating eight leading vendors in the segment, we ultimately selected JDA's proven transportation and logistics management technology to enable optimized transportation plans and fleet utilization, as well as the technology's ability to customize company-specific workflows and multi-tenant capabilities," said Andr?s Pe?ate, vice president of corporate affairs, SABMiller Latin America. "With our expanding Latin American operations and facilities in Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Ecuador, Panama and Peru, we knew that JDA's Transportation and Logistics Management suite would support the activities necessary for us to successfully execute, manage and monitor our entire transportation lifecycle, and by doing so, future-proof our supply chain processes and investment."

Implementing the solutions will enhance SABMiller Latin America's business processes and create sustainable value by synchronizing critical execution processes that result in optimal cost and performance, observes Andr?s Pe?ate, the beverage maker's vice president of corporate affairs.

Source: http://logisticstoday.com/