The tracking and reporting systems for Frito Lay are used to maintain information about a process and to allow reports to be driven from this information.

Typically the data is imported from other systems or keyed in by Frito Lay employees. The data is then manipulated in a way to produce reports that summarize the information in such a way that it can be used to monitor a process and to find ways to improve it. The reports often include rankings of different locations that do the same process, broken down by week, period and year.