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PRODUCTIONS
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OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT
REPORT
COCA COLA COMPANY
GROUP MEMBERS
Barkat Ali Memon
Namarta Bajaj
Waqar Hussain
Saadia Abbasi
Attaullah Qureshi

SUBMITED TO: Mr. FAROOQ MEMON

DATE: May 6, 2014

Introduction:
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer,
retailer and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, which is
headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company is best known for its flagship product CocaCola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia The Coca-Cola
formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 - March 12,
1929), who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. The company operates
a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only
produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who
hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North America.
Under the implementation of the Coca-Cola system, the Coca-Cola Company has to cooperate
with over 300 bottling partners worldwide. The company manufactures and sells concentrates,
beverage bases and syrups to bottling operations, owns the brands and is responsible for
consumer brand marketing initiatives. Our bottling partners manufacture, package,
merchandise and distribute the final branded beverages to our customers and vending
partners, who then sell our products to consumers. The company has 92800 worldwide
associates around the world live and work in the market the company serves. In 2009, The
Coca-Cola Company outputted 24.4 billion unit cases products and the sales revenue of The
Coca-Cola Company for the year is 30990 millions. The company has four of the worlds top five
nonalcoholic sparkling beverage brands which are Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite and Fanta.

Product Line of Coca Cola:

Soft Drinks

Sport Drinks

Tea and Coffee

Water

Energy Drinks

Juices/Drink

Production process of Soft Drink at Coca Cola:

The carbonated soft drinks produced by Coca-Cola are subject to strict quality control and
inspection procedures ensuring they meet the highest international standards.
Briefly, the processes involve the following:

Pure water is subjected to sophisticated filtering, softening and disinfecting to remove

all impurities.

Sugar is added, along with the appropriate beverage concentrate to produce syrup, the
basic component for the soft drink.

The mixture is saturated with carbon dioxide at a low temperature and under high
pressure to give the drinks their renowned fizziness.

Automated machinery dispenses the mixture, in precisely calculated quantities, into

sterilized bottles while another cans, caps or seals them.

The containers move to another machine which applies labels and bar codes, after
which they are automatically inspected to the guarantee they meet all requirements.

After final checking, bottles and cans are transported to machines which pack them in
cartons or boxes before being laces on wooden pallets.

Packed beverages are delivered by trucks to storage facilities to await delivery to

customers and to be enjoyed by consumers.

Production Process Map:

Opportunities for Improvement:

Coca-Cola has been working on a new PlantBottle that will help the company to be even more
sustainable now and in the future. A traditional Coke bottle is created from petroleum and
other fossil fuels, while the new PlantBottle uses materials that are 30 percent plant-based. The
company was hoping that they wouldnt have to sacrifice anything for this new process. As of
2011 there were nine countries that used the PlantBottle. Those countries consisted of
Denmark, Western US, Western Canada, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Sweden and Chile, but
it has not transferred this technology to the Pakistan yet. This bottle has a very different
manufacturing process. Coca-Cola has planned to produce two million of the bottles by 2010
and had exceeded that, producing 2.5 million bottles.
Another advantage would be to of using Plantbottle in Pakistan unlike other plant-based
plastics, it can be processed through existing manufacturing and recycling facilities without
contaminating traditional PET. Therefore, the material in the "PlantBottle can be used, recycled
and reused repeatedly.
Key features of the Plant Bottle

Made from a blend of petroleum-based materials and up to 30 % plant-based materials

Made through an innovative process that turns sugar cane and molasses, a by-product
of sugar production into a key component for PET

Same level of performance as PET

100% compatible with existing PET recycling streams (and more environmentally
efficient than composting)

Does not contaminate the existing recycling stream

Does not compete with food products or scarce land for food

How this Plant bottle will work

Conclusion:
If the plant bottle system is applied to current Manufacturing process in Pakistan for the
production of Soft Drinks, then it will not only be efficient but will also be environmental
friendly as well. It will reduced much of the cost of raw material along with that it will be
making cost efficient for the manufacturing