so gj Pepsi. We've been around for
about 100 years. We have 13
locations in central Southern Ohio,
eastern Kentucky. We have about 1600
employees. We got into power APS about
18 months ago. We were in during the beta
program. We really drive to
kind of look for those next cutting edge technologies.
It's going to enhance our business, enhance revenue
and cut costs and also kind
of the streamline our business
and make our people more efficient so we can sell
more product. So we're trying to do a lot
more mobile, but we didn't have any professional
developers on staff in order to do
that when we saw power. Absolute just
felt like a no brainer for us who fell in love
with it. We were working with it even before
it went to general availability.
When Microsoft did launch power
APS in G A or general availability,
we went live with our first application.
Eric has never really done a lot of
development around here or any riel
programming development for us. Most
of his work has been in the cloud space,
So when he took over power APS, it
was really a new beginning for him to
start
programming
acts for G and J. So it was
unique to see how quickly he went from almost
zero programming skills to
developing a full lap. Rolling that out literally
3 to 4 months.
The store audit Center
in power APS allows us to quickly communicate
any kind of tacit need to complete in
the marketplace to our account managers
and communicate driver notes to our driver's
routing instructions to our logistics team
and also follow up on any out
of stocks or Sinus dishes. We can't
we can't have empty shelves,
right Way just can't lose
to our competition just because
we have empty shelves. That's where power
APS comes into play. That's where Flo comes
into play. That's where power bi I comes in plays.
They're helping us,
you know, ensure proper execution. They're
helping us improve on execution. They're exposing
where we're not executing.
Every day we have 70 to 80 trucks
running out of this building.
They have
140 different parking spots that
those trucks could be put in.
As you can see, all the trucks look the same.
If you're a driver, how do you know which truck is
yours for the day.
Why do you need an application to tell a guy what spot?
Urine. But when you talk about the size
on the amount of trucks that Columbus has,
that we can't have drivers who have,
you know, certain windows to meet to
deliver products that our customers walking
through our parking lot.
So we developed an app that allows the warehouse
to mark where each truck is parked.
In the morning. The driver simply opens his phone,
checks his email, and it tells them exactly where his truck
is parked. What
we discovered with Power APS in Power Bi
I and Flow is that when used
in conjunction with each other,
it created a digital feedback loop that allowed
us to collect data that we've never been able
to collect before,
store it and then in power, bi eyes pulling
that in
and then were able Teoh they were able
to report on it, make sense of what we're seeing,
what makes sense of what we've never seen before.
Power bi. I allows us to look for
trends where we're strong and at the
same time trends were weak and allows
us to make any adjustments and how
we go to market.
We feel like there's hundreds, if not thousands
of processes
that we feel like power APS power bi I
and flow are going to allow us to tackle
those those challenges that we have that are
not digital currently.
So the journey for us really with power haps
in power Bi I started with power bi I So along
that journey we decided that it wasn't just
about reporting on the data. They were so
much new information that they wanted
to show in power. Bi I so power
bi I actually helped drive power out for
us because we actually
use power APs to gather that information
to then deliver it downstream
to power bi I So, in essence power bi
I kind of
was the birth of power APs for
us.