IBM wins multimillion deal for Coke's SAP cloud

IBM will host and manage Coca-Cola Amatil's cloud ERP in a deal worth millions of dollars.

The agreement will see IBM manage the SAP software in a cloud hosted at its own data centre in Sydney.

According to IBM, the cloud platform will "streamline CCA's order management and distribution processes; increase operational efficiencies; and deliver consistent and exceptional quality of customer experience across the two geographies".

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Grant Thomson, cloud business leader at IBM, said: "CCA will be able to leverage best-practice processes from its Australian operation and apply them to the rest of the South Pacific region."

CCA's Australian and Indonesian operations will be onboarded first.

The system will later expand to CCA's other operations in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Samoa.

"By using a common cloud platform across Australia and Indonesia, we will be able standardise and automate our operations and bring a consistent level of efficiency to our Indonesian business," said CCA CIO Barry Simpson.