Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo’s North American supply chain

Gatik operates a fleet of autonomous trucks on networks across North America. | Source: Gatik

PepsiCo this week announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Gatik AI Inc., a developer of autonomous systems for middle-mile logistics. Gatik will bring autonomous freight into PepsiCo’s North America food and beverage supply chain.

Today, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company is already operating for PepsiCo across Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas. The new partnership focuses on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, where Gatik moves products daily from site to site. These networks are high-frequency, time-sensitive, and essential to keeping products flowing consistently.

“Serving our vast network of customers requires a supply chain that is safe, reliable, and built for the future,” said Jim Farrell, the 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.”

Gatik designed its autonomous trucks for end-to-end deliveries across highways and surface streets. It features dynamic route-orchestration capabilities designed for complex regional logistics networks spanning hundreds of pickup and drop-off locations.

This enables PepsiCo to modify route plans in response to daily operational needs. It can add or removing stops, respond to shifts in demand, and adapt to activity levels across distribution centers. Autonomous vehicles can reduce variability, improve on-time performance, and add capacity without requiring major changes to its existing operations, claimed Gatik.

The company ’s first deployment with PepsiCo was in 2022. Today, Gatik said it operates with more than 98% on-time delivery across its operations. The partners said their agreement builds on PepsiCo’s experience running one of North America’s largest private fleets. It also brings Gatik’s autonomous freight capabilities into real, day-to-day supply chain operations.

“Autonomous trucking has reached commercial scale when it operates inside one of the most demanding supply chains on the planet,” stated Gautam Narang, co-founder and CEO of Gatik. “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.”