About Summit Advisory Team
Who Is Summit?
A boutique end to end supply chain consulting firm, specializing in strategy, operations, and technology. We are former operators who provide white glove advisory; not detached observers, but partners who have implemented the same systems our clients are modernizing.
The firm
Advisors who stay long enough to be accountable.
Summit was built by supply chain operators and technologists who spent their careers running distribution networks, implementing warehouse and transportation systems, and answering for the results. That perspective shapes every engagement.
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We embed with your team
Summit advisors work inside your operation, on the floor, in the planning meetings, in the steering committees. Shared calendars, shared metrics and accountability. The work does not happen in a vacuum and handed off as a PDF deck.
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We see around corners
Our advisors have held the operating roles our clients hold today. That experience surfaces the second- and third-order effects of a decision: the labor plan behind the automation, the carrier mix behind the network model. We surface them before they become surprises.
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We connect strategy to operational reality
Board-level material and dock-level execution are the same conversation for us. We translate executive intent into a plan operators can run, and translate operational constraints back into terms the board can act on.
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We stay through implementation and sustainment
Engagements continue past the recommendation into design, execution, go-live support, change management, and ongoing sustainment. We are measured on your successes in implementation, not just what we turn over in a final presentation.
Summit Advisory Team
One Partner. Endless Possibilities.
Strategy, operations, technology, and leadership under one accountable partner, so the plan, the system, and the people who run it stay aligned.
What makes us unique
Boutique by design. Operator-led by default.
These are the reasons clients keep us through implementation instead of switching partners after the assessment.
Client-side operators and technologists
Multi-industry leaders who have sat in the seats our clients sit in today, across retail, ecommerce, wholesale, consumer products, healthcare, and food and nutrition.
Real outcomes, not theoretical frameworks
Recommendations are modeled after your volumes, your labor, your service commitments and then measured against actual results.
Agile enough to shift with you
Scope changes. Acquisitions land. Peak moves. We adjust the plan with you instead of defending the original deck.
End to end, assessment through sustainment
Assessment, recommendations, design, implementation, go live support, change management, and ongoing operational sustainment under one partner.
Senior expertise without the firm overhead
A boutique structure means senior advisors do the work. No pyramid of junior staff learning on your engagement.
White glove from first call to sustainment
Small portfolio, direct access to partners, and a network of more than 100 experienced advisors when an engagement needs specialized depth.
Leadership
The people in the room.
Summit's partners and directors lead engagements directly. The person who scopes the work is the person you see through go-live.
Jill BarronManaging PartnerMore than 30 years across distribution operations, international logistics, strategy, and analytics.
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More than 30 years across distribution operations, international logistics, strategy, and analytics.
Jill has spent more than 30 years across distribution operations, international logistics, supply chain strategy, analytics, trade compliance, warehouse transformation, automation, network optimization, and process improvement.
She previously served as Vice President of Supply Chain Operations & Strategy at Neiman Marcus, where she led work spanning executive planning and day-to-day distribution performance.
Jill's strength is bridging executive strategy and operational reality, turning board-level direction into plans that hold up on the floor, and giving leadership an accurate read on what the operation can absorb.
Jay MaurerManaging PartnerNearly 30 years across supply chain operations and technology in retail, wholesale, and manufacturing.
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Nearly 30 years across supply chain operations and technology in retail, wholesale, and manufacturing.
Jay brings nearly 30 years across supply chain operations and technology, with deep experience in retail, wholesale, and manufacturing environments.
His approach is practical and hands-on. He works alongside client teams, gets into the detail of the operation, and moves quickly from problem definition to a solution the team can execute.
Clients stay with Jay because of the relationship as much as the results. He is direct, available, and accountable through implementation.
Mark GuyerManaging DirectorMore than 20 years solving supply chain, planning, inventory, analytics, and omnichannel challenges.
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More than 20 years solving supply chain, planning, inventory, analytics, and omnichannel challenges.
Mark has more than 20 years solving supply chain, planning, inventory, analytics, and omnichannel challenges for growing and established retailers.
He has held VP-level leadership roles, with experience at JD Sports USA/Finish Line and Tegra Global.
Mark is a pragmatic, data-driven problem solver. He builds the model, pressure-tests the assumptions, and recommends the option the business can actually run, including the option to do nothing.
Steven MuellerDirector, Sales and Business DevelopmentMore than 35 years in sales and customer experience, from IBM and SAP to early-stage startups.
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More than 35 years in sales and customer experience, from IBM and SAP to early-stage startups.
Steven has more than 35 years in sales and customer experience across organizations ranging from IBM and SAP to startups.
He focuses on customer outcomes first, understanding the business problem, the timeline, and the internal capacity before proposing an engagement.
He frames every client relationship around the same progression: Strategy. Execution. Transformation.
By the numbers
Outcomes shown are projected results from modeled engagements. See the case studies.
Work with Summit
Experience that stays in the room.
Tell us where the operation is under pressure. We will tell you what we would do, and whether we are the right partner to do it with you.