Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Deploys Corvus Robotics Drone Inventory System Nationwide
Expanded rollout across nine distribution centers drives measurable gains in inventory accuracy, fill rates, and operational throughput.
Mountain View, CA — March 24, 2026
Corvus Robotics and Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits today announced a strategic technology partnership and expanded deployment of the Corvus One autonomous inventory management system across Southern Glazer's distribution network. Over the past 18 months, Southern Glazer's has deployed more than 40 Corvus One autonomous drones across nine distribution centers nationwide, with continued expansion planned. The rollout supports Southern Glazer's broader supply chain transformation initiative and reinforces its commitment to operational excellence across its network.
Corvus One operates continuously within active warehouse environments, autonomously flying aisles to scan and validate reserve storage locations without disrupting case-picking operations. The result is hands-free, high-frequency inventory audits that sync directly with the Southern Glazer's WMS, freeing teams to focus on higher-value work.
Across deployed facilities, the system has completed approximately 5,000 flights and identified over 35,000 verified discrepancies.
Operational Results
100 Basis Point Improvement in Cases Per Hour. Improved inventory accuracy has contributed to faster, more efficient fulfillment of customer orders across the network.
6x Inventory Validation Frequency. Shifting from a quarterly count cadence to biweekly turns, Southern Glazer's now identifies and resolves discrepancies before they reach picking and outbound shipping.
60 to 70 Labor Hours Reallocated Per Week, Per Site. Inventory teams now focus on resolving verified discrepancies rather than performing broad manual counts, using the Corvus interface to review high-resolution images, label scans, and historical video tied to specific storage locations.
"Across our network, inventory accuracy directly impacts how effectively we serve our customers. By increasing the frequency and precision of our reserve inventory validation, we are identifying issues earlier, improving fill rates, and enabling our teams to focus on proactive problem solving instead of reactive counting. The speed at which we have scaled this technology across nine sites reflects the value it is delivering to our operations."
Karli Sage, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Technology & Engineering, Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
The system's visual record of each scan provides searchable, time-stamped footage of pallet positions and license plate labels, enabling rapid root-cause analysis and team coaching. In beverage distribution, a single verified discrepancy can represent significant dollar value per pallet.
"Southern Glazer's operates at a scale where small improvements in accuracy have meaningful downstream impact. Their team has embraced autonomous inventory as core infrastructure within their supply chain transformation initiative. Scaling to nine facilities with more than 40 drones demonstrates strong operational buy-in and sets a new benchmark for how beverage distributors can modernize inventory control without slowing the floor."
Jackie Wu, CEO, Corvus RoboticsThe collaboration includes regular cross-site operational reviews, enabling Southern Glazer's facilities to share best practices and continuously refine how autonomous inventory integrates into daily workflows. As additional facilities come online, the companies will continue collaborating to standardize deployment models and performance benchmarks across the network.
For food and beverage distributors managing high SKU counts, fast-moving case-picking environments, and tight service level expectations, frequent and autonomous reserve validation provides earlier detection of discrepancies, stronger fill performance, and measurable improvements in warehouse throughput.
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About Corvus Robotics
Corvus Robotics builds physical AI agents for large scale supply chain environments, enabling companies to understand and coordinate inventory operations in real time. Built in America, Corvus deploys infrastructure free autonomous drones that operate continuously inside active warehouses and manufacturing facilities at scale. Its spatial AI agents learn from real world deployments to improve models of space, inventory and supply chains. Through a Robots as a Service model, Corvus creates a data flywheel where deployments compound customer value and system intelligence over time, solving the hardest problems in physical AI including autonomy, reliability and real world deployment at national scale while supporting a more efficient and responsive physical economy.
About Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is the world's preeminent distributor of beverage alcohol, building brands for moments that matter. The multi-generational, family-owned company has operations in 47 U.S. markets and Canada. In 2026, Southern Glazer's was recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community. For more information visit southernglazers.com.
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