Supply Chain Assurance
Supply Chain Assurance
Eighteen years in Defence logistics have meant one recurring task: checking whether the record matches the physical reality, then building the control that closes the gap when it doesn't. That work spans financial control, asset accountability, compliance recovery and audit remediation across defence, maritime and aviation environments, evidenced below through case studies, working frameworks and the coursework for an MIT MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management (coursework complete, final examination outstanding).
Supply chain assurance tests whether inventory, records, controls and operational processes perform as reported, and corrects the gap where they do not.
Six selected case studies
Nine in total, all linked belowEvery one of these started as the same question: does the record match the physical reality, and what breaks first when it doesn't?
Restoring Control to a Failing Account
Took over an unsatisfactory supply chain account and designed the first-line controls that brought it to full compliance. Three control artefacts adopted, none of them dependent on one individual.
Read the case study →Identifying £2.4M in Misallocated Funds
Identified £2.4M in misallocated expenditure on an adjacent account through a review of annual inventory demands, then led the root-cause analysis behind a proposed enterprise-wide policy instruction.
Read the case study →Modernising Assurance Across Inspections
Re-engineered deck-plate assurance across three Fleet Logistics Inspections through integrated ISO governance, Lean Six Sigma and the Three Lines Model, adopted as departmental policy.
Read the case study →Closing Asset-Accountability Gaps
Consolidated dispersed ground support equipment into a single accountable stock holding site following a Tier 3 audit recommendation, closing fourteen major loss investigations along the way.
Read the case study →Recovering a Non-Compliant Account at NATO SHAPE
Brought a tri-service logistics account, including ammunition, from non-compliance to full compliance in around nine months, building three artefacts still in use.
Read the case study →Building Fleet-Wide Inventory Visibility
Took over a predecessor's incomplete build and reconfigured the spreadsheet feeding it, creating a single source of truth for STOROB (cross-platform stock reallocation) tracking that identified an £8,000, 50-hour STOROB within days, was rolled out to an adjacent unit, and has since been adopted by inventory managers elsewhere in the fleet.
Read the case study →Assurance Frameworks
See all ten →Two of the working frameworks most directly relevant to assurance and audit.
An Internal Audit, End to End
A full audit cycle worked against a fictional company: scoping, risk-based planning, control objectives, testing, evidence standards, graded findings, owned actions, follow-up and independent closure.
Open the demonstration →The Three Lines of Defence: From Warships to AI
The Royal Navy's four-tier logistics assurance model mapped against ISO/IEC 42001 AI governance: Supersession, Minimum Viable Bureaucracy, and why assurance is what gives command the confidence to deploy.
Open the framework →Related Writing
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The Physical Assurance Gap in Third-Party Risk
Two 2026 KPMG surveys map where third-party risk management is putting its attention: data, AI, managed services. Physical verification barely appears in either, and the people already doing it have never been told that it counts.
For third-party-risk professionals: a practical way to find the physical dependencies that registers miss.
Read the essay →
The Enterprise Risk Management We Already Do
Corporate risk management is being rewired around decisions, dependencies and judgement. Operational institutions have worked that way for decades, under other names.
For GRC and internal-audit leaders: how operational judgement maps onto the enterprise risk approach PwC now describes.
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The Convergence of Cyber-GRC and Physical Logistics
Why siloed supply chain assurance creates blind spots, where they form, and what happens to custody when nobody is holding the item.
For supply chain, trade compliance and GRC leaders: where cyber and physical assurance leave a gap between them.
Read the essay →Get in touch
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