Great Lakes Consulting Associates, LLC specializes in general management consulting exclusively for the beverage industry. We provide comprehensive consulting services in the areas of distribution operations and supply chain management.

Our experience in the beverage industry covers over 50 separate clients/engagements and over 30 years of consulting experience. Our associates include some of the best beverage sales, beverage marketing and information systems professionals in the country. Our customers are among the industry leaders and continually provide a great resource for collaboration and business development activities.

Beverage Wholesale Distribution
Our distributor clients include multi-state, intrastate and local wholesalers; NA startup companies; along with multi-beverage distributors and consolidators in several major metropolitan markets including Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Portland, Ore. and New York City. Our areas of expertise include strategic planning, business development, sales management systems, sales and distribution programming, consolidation, valuation, supplier relations, profitability improvement, organization design and staffing, compensation planning, warehouse operations and business systems analyses.

Beverage Supply Chain Management
Our supply side clients include national domestic brewers, regional microbrewers, along with several new age suppliers of the ice tea, juice and functional/healthy beverage categories. Consulting activities include supply chain management, organization design, customer service, operations work flow, business systems analyses, software selection and automation.

Industries Served
Distributor
Manufacturer
Beverage Supply-Chain Management