Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to report several times on Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits supply chain initiatives.
If you’re not familiar with the company, Southern Glazer’s is one of the largest – if not the largest – distributors of wine and spirits in the world. It is also a leader in it vertical, where the company was among the earliest adopters of high levels of automation in its distribution centers, launched a broader network design with a special facility to aggregate the storage and distribution of SKUs which are ordered in small quantities.