Pathway Consulting provides executive-level supply chain advisory to organizations navigating complexity, structural misalignment, growth pressure, or elevated risk exposure.
We work directly with CEOs, COOs, Chief Supply Chain Officers, and Boards to strengthen the architecture that governs supply chain performance. Our focus is not tactical execution. It is strategic clarity, structural coherence, and disciplined decision-making at the top.
Modern supply chains accumulate complexity quietly. Incentives fragment. Governance drifts. Controls multiply. Risk builds before it becomes visible. Performance weakens not from lack of effort, but from structural misalignment.
We intervene at the level where these dynamics originate.
Our advisory work centers on four core domains:
We align supply chain design, operating models, and governance structures with enterprise strategy, ensuring that performance systems reflect long-term objectives rather than short-term reaction.
We help leadership teams identify fragilities, map exposure across the value chain, and design governance mechanisms that protect performance without slowing the organization.
We provide disciplined advisory support for high-impact decisions, including network redesign, outsourcing strategy, capital investments, and organizational realignment.
We eliminate self-inflicted complexity, restore planning discipline, and realign incentives across functions to reinforce coherent execution.
Our engagements are structured, confidential, and directly led by Rafael A. Vela. We operate as a boutique advisory partner, working closely with leadership teams to strengthen judgment, reinforce structural integrity, and build supply chain systems capable of sustained performance.
Pathway Consulting
Executive Supply Chain Advisory
https://path.com.co rvela@path.com.co
rvela@rafaelvela.com
Phone + WhatsApp: +507 6671 4500 (Panama)
WhatsApp calls and messages: +34613257208 (Spain)
Pathway Consulting: +30 years of international, multi-industry experience in Supply Chain Management.

To strengthen executive judgment and supply chain architecture in environments of complexity and risk.
Pathway Consulting exists to support leadership teams where performance, governance, and exposure intersect.
Our work clarifies structural weaknesses, restores alignment between strategy and execution, and reinforces disciplined decision-making at the top.
We do not simply solve operational issues.
We strengthen the system that governs them.

To contribute to a generation of organizations that operate with structural coherence, strategic clarity, and disciplined risk awareness.
We envision enterprises where supply chains are not reactive mechanisms, but intentional architectures.
Where governance protects performance without slowing it. Where leadership sees exposure before it becomes disruption.
Our vision is durability.
Performance sustained by structure.

Structural Integrity
Enduring performance depends on coherent architecture. We align structure, incentives, governance, and execution so that systems operate as designed.
Executive Responsibility
Leadership is custodial. Decisions at the top carry consequences beyond metrics. We support executives in exercising authority with responsibility and foresight.
Clarity Over Noise
Complexity accumulates quietly. We prioritize disciplined simplification and precise judgment over excessive reporting, control layers, or reactionary measures.
Independent Judgement
We advise with intellectual independence. Our loyalty is to structural soundness and long-term performance, not convenience or short-term optics.
Discretion and Trust
Executive advisory requires confidentiality, ethical conduct, and measured communication. Trust is foundational to our engagements. .
Sustainable Stewardship. Responsible Impact
Supply chains influence economies, communities, and environments. We support performance that is sustainable, resilient, and mindful of broader responsibility.