How PepsiCo is Expanding Autonomous Freight Deployment

PepsiCo has expanded its use of autonomous vehicles through a multi-year partnership with technology company Gatik. The agreement represents the largest autonomous freight deployment to date.

The collaboration aims to strengthen PepsiCo's supply chain operations by improving delivery consistency and adding capacity across high-volume networks. The deployment could show how autonomous technology integrates into complex distribution systems.

Autonomous delivery operations

"Serving our vast network of customers requires a supply chain that is safe, reliable and built for the future," says Jim Farrell, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at PepsiCo.

"Gatik is already operating inside our networks and brings the autonomous freight technology, commercial experience and scale we need to strengthen service, add capacity and move products more consistently for our customers."

PepsiCo uses Gatik's autonomous vehicles for time-sensitive daily transportation requirements. The vehicles handle deliveries across surface roads and freeways.

The system manages logistics for hundreds of locations without manual intervention. PepsiCo can adjust route plans by adding or removing stops to align with demand fluctuations at its various centres.

According to the partnership, Gatik currently manages PepsiCo's logistics across Texas, Arkansas and Arizona. The company has achieved a 98% on-time delivery rate in these regions.

Scaling commercial autonomous trucking

Gautam Narang, CEO and Co-Founder of Gatik, adds: "Autonomous trucking has reached commercial scale when it operates inside one of the most demanding supply chains on the planet.

"That is what Gatik is doing with PepsiCo. Our autonomous trucks are already moving products every day across Texas, Arizona and Arkansas, and this partnership is proof that Gatik is becoming central to how the world's largest companies move goods."

The partnership between PepsiCo and Gatik began in 2022. That year marked PepsiCo's first deployment of a Gatik autonomous vehicle.

PepsiCo has implemented additional technology initiatives to improve its supply chain operations. In 2025, the corporation began using Salesforce Agentforce AI to enhance customer experience and sales processes.

Ramon Laguarta, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo believes: "AI is reshaping our business in ways that were once unimaginable. This collaboration with Salesforce is another step toward a more connected and adaptive PepsiCo, deploying AI to unlock smarter and faster decision-making, fuel innovation and power sustainable growth."

Broader supply chain initiatives

Marc Benioff, Salesforce's Chair and CEO, emphasises the importance of strategic innovation within the partnership: "We are excited to see PepsiCo, a company whose products are enjoyed over a billion times a day, at the forefront of the digital labour revolution with Agentforce. Ramon and his team are reimagining how work gets done by uniting human expertise with the intelligence of our deeply unified platform."

PepsiCo also partnered with fertiliser company Yara International in 2025 to scale low-carbon farming throughout Latin America and Europe. The partnership aims to improve the corporation's regenerative agriculture programme.

This collaboration demonstrates PepsiCo's focus on transforming sustainable agriculture within its supply chain process. The partnership could mean reduced carbon emissions across PepsiCo's agricultural sourcing operations.