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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...
Tariff Developments Are Reshaping MRO Strategy

The Electronics Exemption Paradox: How July 2025 Tariff Developments Are Reshaping MRO Strategy

The tariff landscape shifted again in July 2025, creating a complex procurement environment that’s forcing C-suite executives to fundamentally rethink MRO strategy. While steel and aluminum tariffs remain at 50%,...
MRO Data Management

7 Functions that Benefit from MRO Data Management

MRO Master Data Management is a discipline driven by two functional areas in manufacturing – Maintenance/Operations Master Data Management for MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) is far more than a...
Tail Spend in Your Organization

How to Identify and Classify Tail Spend in Your Organization

In today’s complex procurement environments, tail spend represents a unique strategic opportunity. Often defined by its diversity, tail spend includes the many smaller, lower-dollar transactions that make up a significant...
Tariff Escalation Pushes MRO Costs to Critical Levels

Breaking Point: June 2025 Tariff Escalation Pushes MRO Costs to Critical Levels

The 50% Steel and Aluminum Shock: Manufacturing’s New Reality The manufacturing landscape shifted dramatically on June 4, 2025, when the most aggressive tariff escalation in modern U.S. trade history took...
Mobile Procurement Process

How Mobile Procurement Tools Save Money & Extend Equipment Uptime

As manufacturing operations grow more complex, the demand for responsive, real-time sourcing of MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) supplies has never been greater. SDI has long been a leader in...

The ROI of Investing in Digital Supply Chain Management Solutions

In today’s volatile market landscape, characterized by supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and increasing global complexity, companies can no longer afford to treat supply chain management as a back-office function....
Mitigate Rising Costs in U.S. Manufacturing

Navigating Tariff Turbulence: How SDI Mitigates Rising Costs in U.S. Manufacturing

As U.S. manufacturers brace for a new wave of tariff policies—ranging from sweeping steel and aluminum duties to looming pharmaceutical import restrictions—supply chains are feeling the pressure. The result? Rising...
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Chief Operations Officer & EVP Supply Chain Cooperative at
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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