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Tail spend management

Tail Spend Management Solutions That Work

Key Takeaways You already know exactly where the bulk of your procurement budget goes. Modern manufacturing demands that you dedicate your best financial and management resources to securing your direct...
Hidden Cost of Dirty Data

The Hidden Cost of “Dirty Data” in Your MRO Supply Chain

Key Takeaways You know the sinking feeling. A critical machine goes down, halting production. Your maintenance tech checks the CMMS, which shows three replacement motors in stock. But when they...
Supply Chain Volatility

The Honest Truth About Supply Chain Volatility (And Why Your Current Strategy is Failing)

If you are a procurement or supply chain leader right now, you are likely exhausted. For the past several years, you’ve been forced to play a never-ending game of whack-a-mole....
Tariffs, Conflict & Cost Instability

Tariffs, Conflict & Cost Instability: How the Iran War Is Reshaping the Next Phase of Global Supply

Over the past several years, tariffs have fundamentally restructured the cost basis of global supply chains. Organizations responded by diversifying sourcing, renegotiating contracts, and recalibrating total landed costs to protect...

How Distributors Can Benefit from Supplier Relationship Management

Explore the crucial role of Supplier Relationship Management in enhancing supply chain efficiency. Active management enhances the benefits of supplier relationship management in five major ways by optimizing vendor performance...
Why Your ERP Isn’t Enough

Why Your ERP Isn’t Enough for MRO Inventory Management

Key Takeaways If your organization has invested millions into a top-tier Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system like SAP or Oracle, you likely expected it to be a silver-bullet solution for...
Storeroom Organization How to Maximize Space and Efficiency

Storeroom Organization: How to Maximize Space and Efficiency

Key Takeaways Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) stockrooms are no different from consumer product inventory systems—they must be built and managed to solve “customer” problems. In an MRO setting, these...
Why Friction, Not Cost, is Your New Enemy

Tariffs 2.0: Why Friction, Not Cost, is Your New Enemy

Structural Volatility Is Now Embedded in MRO and Supply Chain Operations If December 2025 established that elevated tariffs are a permanent operating condition, January confirmed a more precise and consequential...
6 Signs Your MRO Supply Chain Is Leaking Money

6 Signs Your MRO Supply Chain Is Leaking Money (And How to Plug the Holes)

Key Takeaways For most industrial organizations, the MRO supply chain doesn’t show up on the P&L as a headline cost. But when inefficiencies accumulate—fragmented buying, excess inventory, inconsistent data visibility—it...
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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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