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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...

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...
Supply Chain Technology

How Manufacturers Are Using Supply Chain Technology to Build Resilience

The potential for warehousing, transportation, and sourcing disruptions are everywhere, and growing in this volatile supply chain environment we are currently in. Only supply chains that are flexible enough to...

U.S. Tariff Expansion: Critical Implications for Manufacturing Supply Chains

Executive Summary The 2025 expansion of U.S. tariffs represents a significant shift in trade policy with immediate consequences for procurement strategies across manufacturing sectors. This analysis examines the current tariff...
SDI’s Strategic Collaboration is Driving Success for Arxada

Empowering Procurement: How SDI’s Strategic Collaboration is Driving Success for Arxada

In today’s dynamic business landscape, collaboration stands as a cornerstone of success. At SDI, we pride ourselves on forging strategic partnerships that drive innovation and efficiency in procurement and supply...
Supplier Relationship Management System

How to Choose the Right Supplier Relationship Management System for Your Business

Industry 4.0’s global and ultra-competitive business environment leaves no room for imprecise, resource-intensive, and error-prone manual supplier management. Delete the spreadsheet in favor of an automated supplier relationship management (SRM)...
Selecting an eProcurement Solution

How eProcurement Technology is Transforming Supply Chain Management

Businesses still encumbered by paper- or spreadsheet-based procurement face extinction as the digital supply chain era has dawned. Electronic procurement (eProcurement) technology streamlines business-to-business transactions by creating direct connections among...
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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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