Jeremy Jordan

Why MRO Inventory Forecasting Requires a Different Model

August 5, 2026

Introducing SDI AIM, an in-house platform built around the realities of industrial demand, critical spares, and maintenance-driven supply chains. Industrial organizations rarely have an inventory problem in isolation. Instead, they...

July Tariff Update: MRO Leaders Need Control, Not Just Visibility

July 15, 2026

Last month, we noted that managed trade is rapidly evolving into a critical MRO leadership issue. Since then, the tariff environment has continued along that exact trajectory. The defining story...

Better Tail Spend Management = Hidden Savings

July 8, 2026

The procurement landscape has fundamentally shifted. In an era of shrinking profit margins, volatile supply chains, and demanding production schedules, organizations can no longer afford to ignore the bottom 20%...

June Tariff Update: Managed Trade Is Becoming an MRO Leadership Issue

June 24, 2026

In May, we wrote that MRO procurement was entering the era of managed trade — an environment where tariff exposure is no longer defined by broad policy announcements alone, but...

May 2026 Tariff Update: Why MRO Supply Chains Are Entering the Managed Trade Era

May 27, 2026

For much of the past year, supply chain leaders have been asking the same questions about tariffs: How much will prices increase? Which categories will be hit next? How quickly...

Optimizing Your Supply Chain: How A Collaborative Model Can Transform Your Business

May 21, 2026

Key Takeaways The MRO Nightmare: When Good Strategies Go Stagnant It’s a story we hear constantly from Procurement Leaders, Supply Chain Executives, and Facility Managers: You invest heavily in a...

How to Bypass the RFP Nightmare with Cooperative Purchasing

May 6, 2026

Key Takeaways The traditional RFP (Request for Proposal) process for MRO and indirect spend is often described by procurement leaders as a “necessary evil.” It’s a marathon of administrative hurdles,...

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

April 8, 2026

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: How the Iran War Is Reshaping the Next Phase of Global Supply

March 24, 2026

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...

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Jeremy Jordan

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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