A Live Conversation With Glazer's Beer & Beverage on How They Achieved 99% Carrier Self-Scheduling Across 11 Distribution Centers
Glazer's Beer and Beverage is one of the largest beer distributors in the U.S., with 11 distribution centers across 6 states, 60-plus brewing partners including Molson Coors, Heineken, and Constellation, and over 42.5 million cases distributed last year. When peak season hits for July 4th, World Cup, or football season, the pressure on their receiving operations is real.
Before Opendock, each DC was managing appointments differently. Shared spreadsheets, Outlook calendars, Teams channels, and paper calendars. 11 locations, 11 processes, and no network visibility. Carriers showed up whenever they wanted, scheduling consumed hours of staff time daily, and there was no data to bring to supplier conversations.
In this session Jake Beasley, Director of Warehouse Operations at Glazer's Beer and Beverage, walks through exactly how they changed that and what they learned along the way.
What You Will Hear in This Recording
How Glazer's standardized scheduling across 11 DCs and got carriers to self-schedule 99% of appointments
How gate check-in eliminated manual arrival tracking and reduced dock congestion at their busiest locations
How Opendock data changed their supplier conversations with Molson Coors, Heineken, and others
How dock scheduling visibility enabled Glazer's to introduce 4-day work weeks and Volunteer Time Off programs for receiving teams
How they confidently manage peak season volume spikes without the chaos
Who This Is For
Operations and logistics professionals at beverage distributors managing high-volume dock environments: DC managers, logistics directors, IT teams evaluating dock scheduling technology, and anyone still running on spreadsheets and phone trees. Whether you're managing 2 locations or 20, this session will show what's possible when scheduling runs itself.
Speakers
Jake Beasley
Director of Warehouse Operations
Glazer's Beer & Beverage
Nate Allan
VP of Enterprise & Partnerships
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