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Shanduka’s side of life with SAP

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necessarily have thought about the processes that ensure the continuous supply of this favourite drink.

‘If we are the best in what we do, others will follow us’ rather than attempting most other traditional forms of leadership.

ost South Africans have enjoyed drinking an ice cold Coca-Cola at some or other time. However, we may not

Coca-Cola Shanduka Beverages completed a SAP installation at the end of December 2011. Their Group Engineering Manager, Micheal Payne, discussed with Management Today the motivation for implementing a unified operating system, the implementation process followed, the teething problems they experienced and the business changes that have resulted subsequent to the installation. He also offered some advice for organisations who are investigating installing an operating system.

produce concentrate, which is sold to licensed Coco-Cola bottlers throughout the world.

The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia,

The bottlers, who hold territorially-exclusive contracts with the company, produce finished products in cans and bottles from the concentrate in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. The bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail stores and other distributors.

Coca-Cola South African bottler network, was created in July 2007. The Coca-Cola Company sold 70% of Scarlet Ibis Investments 3 (Pty) Ltd to the Shanduka Group, which is owned by Cyril Ramaphosa.

and Nigel and they supply six sales centres with a range of products. Its franchise territory extends to 15% of Gauteng, 65% of Mpumalanga and 3% of Limpopo. CCSB is one of the four franchised Coca-Cola bottlers in South Africa. The other three are Amalgamated Beverage Industries (ABI), Coca-Cola Fortune

September 2011 | Management Today 63 CCSB have two plants, one each in Witbank CCSB, the most recent addition to the