Case Study
Managing Rapid Growth
With Support From JDA, Glazer’s Leverages Collaboration to Keep Pace Glazer’s Distributors has enjoyed years of steady growth as it expanded its business selling wine, spirits and malt beverages to big-box retailers, bars, restaurants and liquor stores. In the early to mid-2000s, Glazer’s realized that it needed new supply chain planning and collaboration solutions to manage this ongoing growth — as well as the changing industry landscape. “Our vendors were consolidating. Our retailers were consolidating. We were consolidating, too, as we acquired other distributors and incorporated them into our business,” said Dave Christensen, supply chain strategy manager at Glazer’s. Glazer’s was in the midst of a dramatic growth period. Its total sales of $400 million in the mid-1990s wo