John Foley, FounderTwo decades in Defense Supply Chain, Procurement and Logistics
No surprises. No fire drills. We help U.S. manufacturers fix the part, supplier or category that is putting a ship date at risk.
Where the practitioner record comes from, and where it applies.
Defense acquisition rules, Foreign Military Sales and export-controlled sustainment, spares and maintenance readiness over the life of a system, single-source and long-lead part qualification, and contract restructuring.
F-35 sustainment · $48.8B FMS portfolio · 783-to-32 site contract consolidation
Supply chain modernization for mission-critical programs, independent government cost estimates, solicitation and statement of work packages, and intake, portal and workflow automation for defense and civilian agencies.
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Turbomachinery, rotating equipment, valves, specialty pipe and capital-project sourcing.
50+ BLS/EIA/FRED cost models
Risk scoring for parts and lead times across thousands of part numbers, mapping bottlenecks deep in the supplier base, second-source qualification, and resilience plans before one constrained part holds up a launch.
AI SKU risk scoring
Ocean, air and ground carrier performance tracking, global distribution network design, freight rate and surcharge benchmarking, predictive shipment visibility, and inventory placement across the network.
$30B+ global distribution across 183 countries · $2.8B–$4.6B digital & AI logistics roadmap
Procurement integration in the first 100 days after close, matching supplier and part prices across plants, invoice-to-contract overbilling audits (Scout Proof Audit), and fast category reviews aimed at margin.
$26.5B M&A synergy integration
The companies that win are the ones that refuse to separate the two.
Senior-led, built around your ambition, measured in results.
Our services follow the value chain: Design, Plan, Source and Procure, Make, Distribute and Service.
We start with your ambition: what you want your supply chain to be and how it helps the business win. Then we build the blueprint: the functions you need, what each one owns, and the people, process and technology that make it work, organized, governed and measured to deliver that ambition.
See how the operating model assessment works →Forecasts miss, plants scramble and parts arrive late. I assess how your demand plan, supply plan, materials plan and financial plan connect, then hand you a planning rhythm your team can run: a monthly sales and operations planning cycle where leaders make the calls, and a weekly execution review that keeps the plan on track.
See how the planning assessment works →Find the money your suppliers overbilled. I check your supplier invoices against what you agreed to pay, then hand you a claim list with the backup for each claim and draft letters to your suppliers. Fully remote.
See how the audit works →One part, one supplier, a ship date at risk. I build the plan and the shortlist to qualify a second source before it costs you a shipment.
See how the stand-up works →For the supplier you can't walk away from: the facts and a negotiation plan your team can run.
See how the pack is built →Two supplier lists and two prices for the same part. I find the first round of savings for your 100-day plan.
See how it works after close →One category or part family. I assess your spend, the supply market and your suppliers, then hand you a category strategy with written moves your team keeps running after I'm gone.
See how the review works →Build it, buy it or partner for it? I assess what you make in-house against what the market can supply, on cost, risk, capacity and control, then give you the make-or-buy calls and the supplier moves that follow.
See how the make vs. buy assessment works →Freight costs climbing and shipments arriving late. I benchmark your rates and surcharges, score how each carrier performs across ocean, air and ground, and hand you the moves to cut cost and late deliveries.
See how the freight assessment works →Stock short at one site and piled up at another, and orders shipping late or incomplete. I map where your inventory sits against where your orders ship and check how your warehouses fill orders, then give you a placement plan and the distribution moves that free up cash and ship orders on time and in full.
See how the distribution assessment works →Customers waiting on spare parts and repairs for products already in the field. I map the spares you stock against what fails and where, and how fast repairs and returns come back, then give you the stocking, repair and supplier moves that keep fielded products running.
See how the spares assessment works →Market signals now live in Insights. Open Market Signals →
Each episode starts with a headline and follows one product through the six stages of the supply chain: design, plan, source and procure, make, fulfill and service.
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Practical intelligence for supply chain and operations leaders, from design to service.
The cyber certification step due November 10 is paused, but the clauses a defense prime must pass down are not. Why that creates supply chain vulnerabilities, and what to get in writing before you quote.
China's November 10 rare earth date is a reminder that one small supplier three tiers down can stall a whole weapons program. How to find your own single points of failure.
SpaceX gets cited as proof that building everything yourself wins. Look closer and the lesson is narrower, and more useful for anyone running a sourcing strategy.
The Panama Canal is at 33 daily slots and still short of water. What that means for US freight on the Gulf and East Coast, and what to do this quarter.
Cass's freight spending index rose 20.4% from a year earlier in September 2026; shipments rose 1.9%. Rates and fuel did most of the lifting. How to read it before bid season.
What the wholesale inventories-to-sales ratio signals, and where multi-echelon inventory optimization fits.
No surprises. No fire drills. We help U.S. manufacturers fix the part, supplier or category that is putting a ship date at risk.
Prefer email? Write to john@foleysa.com, or connect on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab) and X (opens in a new tab).