PepsiCo this week announced a multi-year collaboration with Siemens and NVIDIA to transform plant and supply chain operations through digital twins and artificial intelligence.
PepsiCo plans to apply digital twins to reshape how plant and warehousing facilities are digitally simulated and tested. The Purchase, N.Y.-based company already has early pilots underway in the U.S.
“The scale and complexity of PepsiCo’s business, from farm to shelf, is massive—and we are embedding AI throughout our operations to better meet the increasing demands of our consumers and customers,” said Ramon Laguarta, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo. “Our work with Siemens and NVIDIA will help accelerate our continued journey of becoming a future-fit company, operating with agility and foresight.”
With demand for production and distribution capacity rising, PepsiCo is using AI and new digital approaches to process simulation and facility design. The company said they will help it retool and optimize its existing physical footprint. It noted that traditional expansion methods are slow and costly, limiting flexibility and scalability.
Instead, PepsiCo is shifting to a digital-first planning strategy. The company is using physics-based digital twins and AI agents as co-designers to simulate, validate, and optimize facility layouts before any physical build.
As part of these efforts, PepsiCo is using Siemens Digital Twin Composer, built on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, to simulate upgrades to its facilities in the U.S. with plans to scale globally.