Overcome pressure with performance-driven solutions
Labor shortages, rising costs and unpredictable market shifts are creating a complex environment where performance is hard to sustain and even harder to grow.
Outdated strategies can leave distributors struggling to keep pace with constant change, while inefficient operational processes drain resources, add to cost pressures and slow progress. At the same time, leadership gaps make it difficult to drive change and engage critical talent, adding pressure across every level of the organization.
To move forward in the distribution industry, you need more than isolated fixes. Wipfli applies holistic support for your strategy, people and processes so you can enhance performance and competitiveness.
Why Wipfli?
With decades of industry experience, Wipfli’s organizational performance consulting for distribution team understands the operational realities and strategic challenges you face.
Our team doesn’t just advise. We work closely with you to understand how you operate, uncover inefficiencies, strengthen execution and build the agility needed to respond to uncertainty. From optimizing workflows to strengthening your leadership bench, we help you turn disruption into momentum.
Our organizational performance services for distribution include:
Strategy and operations
Unlock real results with industry-experienced support for planning and execution. Wipfli helps you build agile strategies and optimized operations, including support for process improvement, inventory management and inventory pricing.
Leadership development
Wipfli can enhance your leadership readiness at every level, creating a culture that attracts top talent, fosters engagement and drives retention. From front-line supervisors to senior executives, we help equip your people with the skills and mindset to lead in today’s dynamic environment.
Our team
Christopher R. Blaylock, CPA
Since 2002, Chris has been assisting clients with financial accounting and reporting matters and related business considerations to help them achieve their goals. He utilizes his exemplary analytical and client service skills to gain a thorough understanding of core operations to better help businesses achieve their objectives. Chris is able to leverage his broad experience to help companies maximize the value of the research and development tax credit.
Tom Cox
Tom Cox leads Wipfi's leadership development programs. As a partner with 35 years of experience, clients benefit from Tom’s demonstrated ability to develop leaders and teams, cascading plans and accountability throughout organizations.
Kate E. Brown
Kate Brown is a Business Intelligence and Analytics Manager in Wipfli’s Business Solutions Group, she is focused on designing and building analytics platforms that improve organizational performance and drive actionable analytics for our diverse clientele.
Cara Walton
Cara Walton leads Wipfli’s manufacturing benchmarking intelligence tool, overseeing its strategic growth, data acquisition and intelligence gathering. Under her leadership, the tool has analyzed millions of data points from thousands of manufacturers, become the top resource for manufacturing benchmarking with 7+ years of trended data and launched a division for custom market studies across durable goods industries.
Brett Polglaze
Brett Polglaze brings over 20 years of experience to Wipfli’s organizational performance management consulting team and has a passion for tackling complex organizational questions. From improving business process flows to assisting clients through complex system selections, his focus has always been to architect solutions that solve critical business issues. He has led all aspects of technology selection, implementation, and operations improvement initiatives.
Jake R. Rohrer
Jake Rohrer is a manager in Wipfli’s Organizational Performance team, specializing in the manufacturing industry. Working with manufacturers, he seeks to improve operational efficiency by assessing and optimizing. Jake is experienced working with teams across various business units to create synergies and galvanize positive business outcomes. His communication strategy of “seek to learn” allows him to pick up on the root cause of underperformance and tailor unique solutions to meet the needs of his clients.
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Client success story
Wipfli helped Sage Freight implement an ERP and unified data, decreasing their month-end close process by 33% and increasing on-time collections by 18%.
