Case Study: Anheuser-Busch boosts distribution efficiency with Dematic’s Beverage Distribution Solution

Anheuser-Busch - Customer Case Study

Anheuser-Busch, a major beverage distributor, faced challenges from rapid SKU proliferation, rising labor costs, and growing transportation expenses at its Carson, California facility. The company partnered with vendor Dematic to develop a comprehensive beverage distribution solution to address these operational inefficiencies.

Dematic implemented its Beverage Distribution Solution (BDS), a system featuring robotic layer picking, automated storage and retrieval machines (Case-A-Matic), and specialized control software. This solution significantly reduced the cost per case by cutting direct labor and transportation costs, while also enabling business growth by handling a 100% SKU increase and achieving 99.9%+ shipment accuracy. The system provided the distributor with the capacity to pre-build customer-ready pallets, fundamentally changing its operation.

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