MRO Industrial Supply
Keeping up with the demands of a demanding category.
Within SDI you’ll find industry professionals who specialize in the inner workings of the industries we serve. We understand your world, and how to apply Best-in-Class strategies and processes that make it work more efficiently – and more profitably.
The Industrials we serve include companies with large portfolios of locations, asset-intensive facilities, maintenance-intensive production lines, and a focus on uptime and reliability:
- Construction & Materials
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Industrial Goods & Services
- Aerospace & Defense
- Electronic & Electrical Equipment
- General Industrials
- Industrial Transportation
- Support Services (waste disposal)
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Oil & Gas
- Alternative Energy
- Oil & Gas Producers
- Oil Equipment, Services, Distribution
- Telecomm
- Utilities
SDI expertise applied in the real world.
Escalators in your airline terminal fail, customers are inconvenienced, soon thousands of negative Tweets go viral – OEE and parts availability couldn’t be more vital. Or a furnace that demands 24/7/365 operation goes down, costing you $10K per hour until repaired – efficient storeroom operations take on a whole new meaning.
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Success Story
It takes a progressive manager to push the organization to look at indirect spend and managing it in a different way - but once you see it, then you realize the opportunity.
Today's pace of change does not conform to yesterday's methods or business cultures. In this blog post, SDI explores the dynamics of internal colleagues as well as rapid changes in terms of market disruptions and technology advances.
The project team has worked its way through Define, Measure, Analyze, and Improve. It’s time to begin the Control phase. The key stakeholders gather to evaluate the solution as implemented and create a plan to sustain the improvements. The goal is to standardize the improved processes, establish an audit schedule and schedule periodic follow-up to identify additional opportunities for improvement.
