Liberty Coca-Cola
Beverage Icon Liberty Coca-Cola Retains DVIRC Six Sigma Experts Resulting in $1.4MM in Initial Cost Savings
Beverage Icon Liberty Coca-Cola Retains DVIRC Six Sigma Experts Resulting in $1.4MM in Initial Cost Savings
For over 100 years, Liberty Coca-Cola beverages has produced, sold and distributed 90 million cases of some of the world’s most recognizable products, including Coca-Cola, and other soft drinks, juices, energy drinks, water and ready-to-drink coffee and tea across its 16,000 square miles of territory in New York, New Jersey, and the Greater Philadelphia region.
With 3,000 associates across 8 distribution centers and 3 manufacturing facilities, Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages takes pride in empowering its people and making a difference in the local communities it proudly serves. The Liberty team often says the ‘L’ in the name stands for ‘Local,’ and as a leading manufacturer, Liberty wants to partner with local experts and could empower their teams through continuous improvement.
Liberty’s leaders identified the need to develop Six Sigma certification programs in its Philadelphia facility as part of a larger investment in the long-term growth of its people and their careers, engaging all associates to make and own local decisions, while striving for a culture of operational excellence.
The objective was to train and empower employees to have the necessary skills and capabilities needed to plan and implement process improvements throughout the company.
The Green Belt Certification Program was designed to promote participant collaboration and teamwork to work on real-world projects. The typical value generated from these projects is considerable – far exceeding the cost of the program. In addition, once the individuals and teams are trained, they continue generating high value through second and third project charters.
After teaching DMAIC methods, teams identified a problem with truck idling times by analyzing telematic data. The team found they could eliminate waste by cutting down on this time. We quickly got to work on research and analysis to craft a tailored solution.
We live our “beyond the project” mentality by going beyond our scope of work to help Liberty Coca-Cola innovate its processes even further through Six Sigma consulting.
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