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Liquor Control Commission reports $10.5M cases sold, online renewals and SIPs replacement; seeks two funded FTEs
Summary
Michigan Liquor Control Commission Chair Kristen Belcher and staff told the same subcommittee the agency is replacing a 50‑year-old SIPS wholesale system, has processed more than 18,000 of 22,000 annual renewals online, and seeks funding to authorize two additional FTEs to reach a 150 FTE authorization.
Kristen Belcher, chair of the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Insurance and Financial Services that the commission handled about 10.5 million cases of spirits in the most recent reporting period and oversees more than 14,000 spirit SKUs available to Michigan retailers.
Belcher and MLCC staff described an annual renewal cycle in which roughly 22,000 individual license renewals were due this year and the commission had processed over 18,000 renewals through an online system. Carrie Kron, MLCC business manager, and David Marvin, executive services director, outlined an ongoing IT project to replace the commission’s sales, inventory and purchasing system (SIPs), which staff said will modernize ordering and…
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