Gallo Invests In Agentic AI To Improve Supply Chain Capabilities

InnovationTransportationGallo Invests In Agentic AI To Improve Supply Chain CapabilitiesBySteve Banker,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management.Follow AuthorJun 10, 2026, 09:12am EDTGALLO is the world's largest wine producer by volume.GALLOGALLO is on a journey to make better supply chain decisions. “I think one of the key things that I've realized is the fact that we have so much software, but we don't have enough signals to use to make decisions,” Nitin Murali, the vice president of supply chain excellence, explained to me. “So, the focus was on figuring out how we could close that signal deficit. How do we make sure that we are focused on making decisions at the right time, faster, and at scale?”The GALLO Supply ChainGALLO, which changed its name from EJ Gallo in 2024, is a private, family‑owned alcohol beverage company with more than 7,000 employees. Their headquarters are in Modesto, California. This 90-plus-year-old company is best known as a provider of economy-priced wines. It is the largest wine producer in the world by volume. It has 130 brands across wine, spirits, malt, and ready‑to‑drink beverages. They have the top-selling wine -Barefoot - and ready-to-drink hard seltzers - High Noon – in the United States. They sell their products in 110 nations. The company works with more than 3,000 suppliers. In addition to grape growers, these suppliers include companies that provide branded wine imports, bulk wine, contract manufacturing, packaging, energy, technology support, and raw materials. The company exports California wine and imports wine from Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. Gallo imports spirits from Australia, the Caribbean, Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Gallo has been shrinking its manufacturing footprint in response to a national decline in alcohol consumption. MORE FOR YOUGALLO publishes a sus...