Jason Fincher is a Principal Logistics Analyst for CANA Advisors. Mr. Fincher is responsible for contributing to problem definition and solution design, logistics subject matter expertise and modeling, and project management.  Mr. Fincher is currently the sitting President and founder of the Association of Marine Corps Logisticians (AMCL). 

Mr. Fincher has over 23 years of experience as a Marine logistics officer and defense systems analyst.  His focus areas include supply chain and operations management, wargaming, transportation management, repair parts forecasting, maintenance management, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation.

Mr. Fincher managed several major analysis projects including a service wide study to validate logistics sustainment planning metrics.  His analysis provided a road map for building systems of data collection, processing, and dissemination of critical planning information, replacing the largely ad hoc legacy system.  He also authored a concept for distributed operational logistics that was validated through service level wargames and was widely influential on emerging Marine Corps doctrine.

Mr. Fincher’s Marine Corps career included multiple overseas deployments where he served in a variety of logistics coordination, management, and execution roles.  He oversaw the redesign of deployed supply processes for shipboard Marine units that became standard practice for Marine Expeditionary Unit deployments.  He is widely recognized as an expert in several DoD logistics disciplines and regularly contributes to the AMCL professional blog. Mr. Fincher’s masters work included studies on the implementation of Global Combat Service Support – Marine Corps (GCSS-MC) and thesis work on comparing and assessing supply performance metrics.