Pepsico, Inc. – SAP Innovation Awards 2025
Due to rapid data growth affecting system performance and stability, PepsiCo collaborated with Microsoft and SAP to migrate from 24 to 32 TB, becoming the first in the industry to operate at this capacity. The project, led by PepsiCo's tech teams and strategic vendors, aimed to support North America business growth and future major releases. - 5452 Download the DocumentPUBLIC
Entry Pitch Deck
PepsiCo, Inc.
Craig Dalziel, Srini Kapaliswaran, Baldo Garcia, and Anand
Kamarthi
Consumer Products
Scaling PepsiCo NA being pioneers in enabling
leading-edge technology to unlock future growth
Entry Pitch Deck
PepsiCo, Inc.
Craig Dalziel, Srini Kapaliswaran, Baldo Garcia, and Anand
Kamarthi
Consumer Products
Scaling PepsiCo NA being pioneers in enabling
leading-edge technology to unlock future growth
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PepsiCo, Inc.
Purchase, New York
Food & beverage
About PepsiCo | Leading global food
and beverage company
318,000
PepsiCo, a global frontrunner in the food and beverage industry,
continues to push boundaries through innovation and digital
transformation, serving customers across more than 200 countries.
With an impressive $91.85 billion in 2024 revenue, the company
strategically partners with SAP to harness the power of data
platforms, artificial intelligence, and cutting-edge technologies.
PepsiCo's intelligent enterprise approach optimizes operations by
leveraging 788 SAP instances, resulting in improved distribution,
streamlined planning, and enhanced data transparency. Additionally,
the organization demonstrates its commitment to sustainability by
setting ambitious goals to reduce emissions, champion regenerative
agriculture practices, and advance water efficiency by 2030. As
PepsiCo forges ahead in the rapidly evolving business landscape, its
strong alliance with SAP fuels continuous growth and drives
innovation.
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HEADQUARTERS:
INDUSTRY:
WEBSITE:
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES:
Company information
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PepsiCo, Inc.
Purchase, New York
Food & beverage
About PepsiCo | Leading global food
and beverage company
318,000
PepsiCo, a global frontrunner in the food and beverage industry,
continues to push boundaries through innovation and digital
transformation, serving customers across more than 200 countries.
With an impressive $91.85 billion in 2024 revenue, the company
strategically partners with SAP to harness the power of data
platforms, artificial intelligence, and cutting-edge technologies.
PepsiCo's intelligent enterprise approach optimizes operations by
leveraging 788 SAP instances, resulting in improved distribution,
streamlined planning, and enhanced data transparency. Additionally,
the organization demonstrates its commitment to sustainability by
setting ambitious goals to reduce emissions, champion regenerative
agriculture practices, and advance water efficiency by 2030. As
PepsiCo forges ahead in the rapidly evolving business landscape, its
strong alliance with SAP fuels continuous growth and drives
innovation.
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CHALLENGE: SOLUTION: OUTCOME:
Operations resiliency by scaling PepsiCo Platform
3
With functional and data optimizations this
platform can support the PepsiCo North
America business up to end of 2026
Improvement in time to process Sales
Orders, Delivery and Invoices.
User experience improvement for online
users.
2026
PepsiCo
40% 1000%
High data growth volume in PepsiCo core
systems could have had an impact in
performance and stability for the North
America business. Considering that the
program agenda for North America is still
ongoing, this could have also jeopardized the
coming major releases for the rest of the
markets.
▪ Based on the data volume growth projections,
performance requirements and stability,
PepsiCo decided to forge the future and migrate
from 24 to 32 TB.
▪ PepsiCo led the co-innovation with Microsoft and
SAP to develop the new 32TB product for
PepsiCo’s specific needs and drove the
expedited certification process to meet PepsiCo
deployment timelines.
▪ PepsiCo’s financial investment and trust on this
project led to being first in the industry operating
at this capacity.
PepsiCo Tech Strategy & Enterprise
Solutions & Infrastructure and Cloud
Operations teams in partnership with
strategic vendors (SAP, Microsoft, Suse,
Infosys, Cognizant and HCL) led and
materialized a program to scale core
operation systems from 24 to 32TB, setting a
precedent across industry and the first one in
Azure to go productive and to support
enabling North America business future
growth.
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Operations resiliency by scaling PepsiCo Platform
3
With functional and data optimizations this
platform can support the PepsiCo North
America business up to end of 2026
Improvement in time to process Sales
Orders, Delivery and Invoices.
User experience improvement for online
users.
2026
PepsiCo
40% 1000%
High data growth volume in PepsiCo core
systems could have had an impact in
performance and stability for the North
America business. Considering that the
program agenda for North America is still
ongoing, this could have also jeopardized the
coming major releases for the rest of the
markets.
▪ Based on the data volume growth projections,
performance requirements and stability,
PepsiCo decided to forge the future and migrate
from 24 to 32 TB.
▪ PepsiCo led the co-innovation with Microsoft and
SAP to develop the new 32TB product for
PepsiCo’s specific needs and drove the
expedited certification process to meet PepsiCo
deployment timelines.
▪ PepsiCo’s financial investment and trust on this
project led to being first in the industry operating
at this capacity.
PepsiCo Tech Strategy & Enterprise
Solutions & Infrastructure and Cloud
Operations teams in partnership with
strategic vendors (SAP, Microsoft, Suse,
Infosys, Cognizant and HCL) led and
materialized a program to scale core
operation systems from 24 to 32TB, setting a
precedent across industry and the first one in
Azure to go productive and to support
enabling North America business future
growth.
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The scale up to 32 TB really does
position us not only for coming program
deployments, but to continue to handle
the additional volume as we grow our
business. What the team has done not
just position us for the Now, but it
positions us for the Future.
Dave Dohnalik
Tech Strategy & Enterprise Solutions, Sr Vice President
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The scale up to 32 TB really does
position us not only for coming program
deployments, but to continue to handle
the additional volume as we grow our
business. What the team has done not
just position us for the Now, but it
positions us for the Future.
Dave Dohnalik
Tech Strategy & Enterprise Solutions, Sr Vice President
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Participating partner information
PepsiCo’s partnership with Microsoft was
instrumental to delivering the first 32tb scale-
up systems in production on Azure. Our
close partnership to address PepsiCo’s
testing and feedback prior to going live set
the stage for successful and on-time
production deployment of the largest scale-
up system available on Azure.
- Wade Graham, General Manager &
Managing Director, Microsoft
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Microsoft
The liaison and close partnership with both internal and external technology experts played a
critical role in the success of the program. From PepsiCo Anand Kamarti and Deepak
Patel led the technology aspects, ensuring seamless execution, while Wade Graham and
Glenn Wallace served as strategic external partners from Microsoft and SAP, respectively.
Microsoft co-created technology platforms to provision the unprecedented infrastructure
required by PepsiCo. They ensured timely provisioning of infrastructure with the correct
setup, enabling all necessary testing cycles and a smooth transition to production, meeting
all operational readiness criteria as planned and within budget.
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Participating partner information
PepsiCo’s partnership with Microsoft was
instrumental to delivering the first 32tb scale-
up systems in production on Azure. Our
close partnership to address PepsiCo’s
testing and feedback prior to going live set
the stage for successful and on-time
production deployment of the largest scale-
up system available on Azure.
- Wade Graham, General Manager &
Managing Director, Microsoft
5
Microsoft
The liaison and close partnership with both internal and external technology experts played a
critical role in the success of the program. From PepsiCo Anand Kamarti and Deepak
Patel led the technology aspects, ensuring seamless execution, while Wade Graham and
Glenn Wallace served as strategic external partners from Microsoft and SAP, respectively.
Microsoft co-created technology platforms to provision the unprecedented infrastructure
required by PepsiCo. They ensured timely provisioning of infrastructure with the correct
setup, enabling all necessary testing cycles and a smooth transition to production, meeting
all operational readiness criteria as planned and within budget.
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