Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. (HBC) S.A., will use a rugged mobile computing solution from Symbol Technologies Inc. to help increase productivity and improve operational efficiency within the organization.
Coca-Cola's deployment of Symbol's MC9000 mobile computers across its Europe, Middle East and Africa operations is part of a strategic initiative to improve the efficiency, productivity and customer service delivered by its mobile workforce. The Symbol mobility platform replaces a range of working practices that were based on paper, laptops and PDAs. The solution now helps support Coca-Cola HBC's mobile enterprise strategy of capturing and delivering accurate information while workers are on the road, such as inventory, delivery schedules and store set-up and displays to its mobile workforce, customers, partners and suppliers in a timely fashion.
Serving a population of more than 500 million consumers across 26 countries, Coca-Cola HBC will equip more than 6,000 associates with Symbol MC9000 mobile computers. Coca-Cola HBC plans to rollout enterprise applications on the ruggedized MC9000 mobile computer which includes a color screen, built-in bar code scanner, wide-area networking (WAN) and Wi-Fi wireless networking.
Symbol has provided four customized versions of the MC9000 mobile computer to meet the varying needs of Coca-Cola's business operations, including tracking outlet sales history, inventory levels, product profitability and promotions; ensuring merchandising is in accordance with current contracts and promotions; assisting delivery teams with route planning and accounting; and enabling electronic service management teams to maintain equipment such as refrigerators and vending machines.
Coca-Cola HBC has already deployed 3,000 MC9000 mobile computers and plans to continue to develop and implement solutions on the devices over the next two years
