How PepsiCo Uses FICO Xpress to Power Global Manufacturing and Logistics Operations
Learn how PepsiCo executes hundreds of large-scale optimization models daily to accelerate production planning, improve accuracy, and standardize decisions across global operations.
Case Study
Discover how PepsiCo powers global manufacturing, logistics, and staffing decisions using FICO Xpress Optimization as its core decision engine. This case study shows how enterprise-scale optimization models, solver tuning, and close collaboration with FICO’s technical experts enable faster planning, higher accuracy, and reliable execution across hundreds of daily production scenarios worldwide.
- PepsiCo deploys production scheduling globally across all manufacturing sites, including 36 sites in the U.S. and Canada
- PepsiCo executes 400-500 enterprise-scale production planning models daily, solving mixed integer programming (MIP) problems with up to 600,000 decision variables and 400,000 constraints
- PepsiCo reduced daily production solve times by 30% through solver tuning, then achieved an additional 15% improvement by upgrading to the latest FICO Xpress release
- PepsiCo reduced staff planning cycles from 2–3 days to under 5 minutes for 80% of cases (and under one hour for all cases) using optimization-based workforce planning
- PepsiCo has relied on FICO Xpress Optimization for 15+ years as the core engine for mission-critical manufacturing, logistics, and staffing decisions, capturing continuous performance gains with each new release
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