PepsiCo recently announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Gatik to bring autonomous freight into PepsiCo’s North America food and beverage supply chain, marking the largest commercial autonomous freight deployment to date. Gatik, a leader in autonomous freight, currently operates for PepsiCo across Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas.
This deployment will bring autonomous trucks into one of the world’s largest food and beverage supply chains, accelerating PepsiCo’s push to build more innovative, resilient, and responsive transportation networks.
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. For PepsiCo, the partnership strengthens its supply chain network that makes and moves its food and beverage products across the United States every day. It provides a practical way to improve delivery consistency, add capacity, and support customer service across a complex, high-volume operation. It also marks a major commercial milestone for Gatik, which is now delivering autonomous freight at commercial scale inside one of the world’s largest and most demanding consumer goods supply chains.
The partnership is focused on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, where products move daily from site to site. These networks are high-frequency, time-sensitive, and essential to keeping products flowing consistently.
Gatik’s autonomous trucks are designed for end-to-end deliveries across highways and surface streets, with dynamic route orchestration capabilities built for complex regional logistics networks spanning hundreds of pickup and drop-off locations. This enables PepsiCo to modify route plans in response to daily operational needs, including adding or removing stops, responding to shifts in demand, and adapting to activity levels across distribution centers. That flexibility helps PepsiCo reduce variability, improve on-time performance, and add capacity without requiring major changes to its existing operations.
Gatik’s first deployment with PepsiCo was in 2022 and today, Gatik operates with more than 98% on-time delivery across its operations today. This agreement builds on PepsiCo’s experience running one of North America’s largest private fleets and brings Gatik’s autonomous freight capabilities into real, day-to-day supply chain operations.
PepsiCo and Gatik are focused on adding capacity where it’s needed most: high-demand regional networks that are hard to staff and critical to keeping shelves stocked for consumers. Ultimately, it is about supporting PepsiCo’s frontline teams with greater flexibility, consistency, and reliability across the transportation network — and ensuring PepsiCo’s people grow with the future of the business.
Gatik is a leader in autonomous freight. For more information visit www.gatik.ai.
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