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Tariffs Uncertainty

October 2025 Tariff Shock & Strategic Reset: What’s New, What’s Next for MRO Procurement

New Tariff Fronts Open While Others Stall Furniture, Lumber, and Wood Enter the Crosshairs Effective October 14, the administration will impose a 10% tariff on softwood lumber and timber imports and 25% tariffs...
Slob Inventory

Ridding Your Warehouse of SLOB Inventory: How to Eliminate Waste & Unlock Value

In today’s competitive industrial landscape, Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) inventory that sits unused can become a silent profit killer. Whether it’s spare machine parts, fasteners, seals, gasket materials, or...
Risk Mitigation Through Diversified Suppliers

Risk Mitigation Through Diversified Suppliers: The Cooperative Approach

In today’s volatile global market, supply risk mitigation is no longer optional—it’s a strategic imperative. From geopolitical instability, labor shortages, ever evolving tariffs and extreme weather events, disruptions can strike...
Tariff Flexibility

Strategic Inflection: September 2025 Tariff Flexibility and AI Investment Recalibrate MRO Strategy

Tariff Rigidity Meets Strategic Nuance September brought unexpected breathing room amidst the relentless tariff turmoil. On September 6, President Trump signed an executive order granting tariff exemptions—effective September 8—for over...

How to Create an Efficient Maintenance Room Floor Plan

Your maintenance room is more than just a storage space—it’s a strategic asset. An efficient maintenance room floor plan ensures quick access to critical inventory, minimizes downtime, and supports proactive...
Procurement Services

5 Signs Your Organization Has Outgrown Its Procurement Software

Has Your Procurement Software Hit Its Limit? In today’s fast-paced, disruption-prone supply chain environment, what once worked in procurement may now be holding you back. As organizations scale, the cracks...
Tariff Escalation

The August Reckoning: EU and Canada Tariff Escalation Forces Emergency MRO Strategy Pivot

August 2025 shattered remaining supply chain stability. Trump’s 30% EU tariff and 35% Canadian tariff escalation have eliminated decades-old sourcing relationships, forcing immediate strategic pivots for manufacturing executives. The message...
Digital Purchasing Cooperatives

How Digital Purchasing Cooperatives Unlock New Value from Indirect Spend

Learn how joining a digital purchasing cooperative can help optimize indirect spend management. By aggregating volumes and sharing collective intelligence, cooperatives drive increased cost savings, enhanced visibility, improved responsiveness, and...
GPOs vs Coops

Why Cooperative Purchasing Outperforms GPOs in MRO Spend Management

In today’s complex supply chain landscape, organizations are under increasing pressure to drive cost savings, improve efficiency, and maintain control over their Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) procurement. Group Purchasing...
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With over 25 years of experience in business outsourcing and professional services environments across multiple industry verticals, Jeremy has responsibility for all day-to-day operations for SDI’s Supply Chain Cooperative. Jeremy has a great deal of experience developing and leading high performance teams to operational excellence with a highly successful track record of driving continuous and innovative process excellence across complex organizations. His diverse blend of functional experience in high growth and turnaround outsourcing organizations brings a wealth of expertise to best align SDI’s supply chain solution to our clients’ needs, both operationally and financially.
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