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The beverage industry, like many others, is undergoing a digital transformation. From optimizing inventory management to automating complex tasks, AI is brewing up a new era of efficiency and productivity in beverage warehousing.
AI
When you think of Generative AI (Gen AI), the first thing that comes to mind might be chatbots or personalized product recommendations. But as we head into 2025, direct-to-consumer (DTC) beverage brands must push their thinking further.
AI
AI is taking the digital transformation industry by storm. Whether it’s by streamlining employee processes, improving quality control, predicting demand and optimizing the supply chain, every aspect of a business has become easier with the help from AI.
M&A
As the outlook of M&As within BevAlc evolves, companies looking to make M&As accretive need to focus on five success factors: effective integration, preserving brand “magic,” identifying right growth areas, strategic product placement and leveraging supply chain synergies.
AI
For the beverage alcohol industry, distribution is the critical bridge between production and consumer — but distributors often face hurdles that range from routing hang-ups to inventory blind spots. These hurdles can significantly hamper delivery times and inflate costs.  Last-mile delivery stands out as the most expensive and time-intensive aspect...
warehouse
Looking at the world around us, technology is being utilized to improve just about everything. From implementing AI in the consumer shopping experience to data collection to grab-and-go shops, it is quite literally impacting everything that we do. For decades, technology has been improving warehouse management and driving innovation in...
alcohol
Among many trends in the alcohol industry supercharged by the Covid-19 pandemic was direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipping. Sheltering in place during the health crisis, consumers learned at a rapid rate that they could order alcohol online and have it sent to their door. What was a growing DTC movement before 2020...
Covid-19 sped up the alcohol ecommerce trend already growing before 2020, boosting companies like City Hive. This New York-based business provides an all-in-one ecommerce platform for wine and spirit shops. As the pandemic paralyzed America, City Hive helped retailers nationwide digitize their sales and operations. So what comes next? What happens...
Once a home brewer in Vermont, Matthew Osterman now owns the first and only dedicated contract brewery west of the Mississippi. In 2013, he left his job at New Plant Beer in Denver and signed a seven-year lease on a 70,000-square-foot facility near Interstate 25. Two years later, Sleeping...
Family-owned-and-operated Alliance Beverage Distributing prides itself on offering the most diverse beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverage portfolio in West Michigan, with more than 5,000 SKUs – and counting. The Grand Rapids-based distributor, a joint venture between Kent Beverage and B&B Distributing launched in 2013, delivers 7.2 million CEs annually...