PepsiCo and Gatik have announced a multiyear strategic partnership to bring autonomous freight into PepsiCo’s North America food and beverage supply chain.
For PepsiCo, the partnership expands delivery capacity and supports improved consistency and customer service across its US supply chain. The partnership is focused on the company’s regional transportation networks, where products move daily from site to site.
“Serving our vast network of customers requires a supply chain that is safe, reliable and built for the future,” said Jim Farrell, senior vice president of supply chain at PepsiCo North America. “Gatik is already operating inside our networks and brings the autonomous freight technology, commercial experience and scale we need to strengthen service, add capacity and move products more consistently for our customers.”
Gatik’s autonomous trucks are designed for end-to-end deliveries on highways and surface streets, with route-planning capabilities developed for regional logistics networks involving hundreds of pickup and drop-off locations. This enables PepsiCo to adjust routes in response to changing operational needs.
“Autonomous trucking has reached commercial scale when it operates inside one of the most demanding supply chains on the planet,” said Gatik CEO and co-founder Gautam Narang.
“That is what Gatik is doing with PepsiCo. Our autonomous trucks are already moving products every day across Texas, Arizona and Arkansas, and this partnership is proof that Gatik is becoming central to how the world’s largest companies move goods.”
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