Inside Gallo's Grape-to-Glass Supply Chain

E1632 - Inside Gallo's Grape-to-Glass Supply Chain

Published: September 9, 2026

Duration: 1:03:35

Most wine drinkers picture a boutique vineyard. Andrew Rice says the real story is scale: hundreds of rail cars, thousands of truckloads, and a regulatory maze most consumers never see.
 

In this episode of Supply Chain Now, Scott Luton and special guest co-host Wanda Johnson speak with Andrew Rice, senior ERP technical product manager at Gallo, about the wine supply chain. From grape to glass, government regulation and the three-tier system, harvest and weather risk, inventory and aging complexity, and how technology like agentic AI is transforming operations.
 

Andrew explains why wine supply ch...