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MRO 2025: SDI’s Guide to Digital Supply Chain

July 29, 2021

Posted by Jim Owens on Thu, 07/29/2021 The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the manufacturing industries inability to overcome major supply chain disruptions and exacerbated several of the challenges facing the procurement,...

Overcoming the Unintended Consequences of the New K-12 Normal

July 29, 2021

As we look forward to the next K-12 school year, school leaders are in a uniquely challenging position. However, in this case the cliché is true … “Challenges are the...

5 MRO Pain Points And How To Address Them

June 30, 2021

The MRO supply chain is evolving thanks in part to Industry 4.0. But while businesses spend a huge amount of time managing their direct supply, historically the MRO supply chain...

How to Become More Efficient Using RPA in the Procurement Process

June 30, 2021

Posted by John Delligatti on Wed, 06/30/2021 The transactional nature of maintenance, repair, and operations procurement make it a target-rich environment for robotic process automation. The desire for manufacturers to...

MRO Supply Chain Optimization for School Facilities

June 30, 2021

Optimization begins with streamlining MRO procurement There are dozens of buzzwords trending these days on social media and in the news about the supply chain problems in educational institutions. Unfortunately...

Sourcing Efficiency Is Key to MRO Supply Chain Strategy

June 1, 2021

The maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) function within manufacturing facilities has always focused on efficiency. The theory was that MRO is a cost of doing business, a necessary expense that...

How COVID-19 Affected the Supply Chain in the Education Sector

June 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic proved that global and regional surges in demand can critically impact supply chain in education sector, exposing the faults of conventional wisdom regarding supply chain: that it’s...

3 Ways to Minimize Supply Chain Disruptions

April 27, 2021

Among all the human calamity, COVID-19 also demonstrated in no uncertain terms that it is critical for manufacturing firms and other asset-intensive, multi-site enterprises to take steps to minimize supply...

PPE for Schools: A guide to ASTM International’s new mask standard

April 27, 2021

Posted by Charnett Moffett on Tue, 04/27/2021 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ASTM International published its first-ever standard for face coverings to help establish minimum design, performance, labeling and...

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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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