Ambev is the largest brewery in the world and has an exclusive IT business unit called Ambev Tech. It was created to boost the company’s competitive advantages and further enhance the experience offered with its products.
The unit comprises more than 1800 professionals focused on developing solutions to transform the company’s sales area, the logistics area, as well as on building products for internal consumption within Ambev and for external consumption.
The squads are spread across headquarters in Blumenau, São Paulo, Jaguariúna, Maringá, Campinas, Sorocaba, Buenos Aires, and also in Europe.
Due to its vastness, one can imagine the size of the several IT projects carried out simultaneously within the company.
Meeting all these demands was a huge challenge for a few reasons. In this case study, you will understand how we helped Ambev find a solution to such an obstacle.
As many steps had been digitalized, the logistics sector needed to integrate data and inputs that could help control product inventory.
For that reason, the company was constantly dealing with a high volume of IT demands related to the sales and logistics sector, in addition to several specific projects. In other words, it needed to hire IT professionals quickly and assertively.
The pandemic brought a strong need to digitalize our processes. We don’t want to be just a beverage company ; we want to deliver a high-value experience to our customers
However, finding, hiring, and retaining professionals for projects was a huge challenge that directly impacted product delivery.
Ambev needed a flexible solution to hire qualified IT squads to work on projects.
However, finding, hiring, and retaining professionals for projects was a huge challenge that directly impacted product delivery.
We are investing more and more in IT with the objective of building a fully integrated production chain by 2025. We chose UDS as an IT partner to help us with this challenge.
IT Outsourcing within IT projects was the solution that Ambev found in order to assemble highly qualified squads to build an application.
UDS was chosen as an IT designation partner within projects of the group’s technological arm.
“We trust UDS as our IT partner due to its solid experience in the area.
By hiring designated professionals and eliminating the learning curve, we were able to optimize and speed up projects.”
The specific demand which started the relationship between UDS and Ambev was the development of an app for managing logistics partners.
In order to deliver the product within the required deadline, it was necessary to bring more developers to the squad.
The urgency was latent in the project. We quickly assembled a full squad comprised of professionals with backgrounds in different programming languages: C# .Net, AngularJS, NodeJS and Flutter.
The application we built together brought 90% agility and high optimization to the salespeople’s work routine.
As it was a one-off project (developing the logistics partner management application), in addition to assembling the squad quickly, UDS made professionals available for a predetermined working period.
With our designated professionals, Ambev was able to stick to the development schedule for the application that would manage logistics partners.
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