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Maintenance Storeroom Management & Inventory Management: Why it is more important than ever for chemical manufacturers

November 28, 2018

The manufacturing industry has been under mounting pressure from growing international competition, industry consolidation, and increasing customer expectations. Chemical manufacturers aren’t immune to these industry trends and are looking for...

MRO Technical and Project Services: The Key to Connecting your MRO Strategy to your Asset Life Optimization Strategy

October 29, 2018

While it’s clear that an optimized MRO supply chain supports reliability strategies, many companies are surprised to learn that MRO technical services and project services are a crucial part of...

7 Functions that Benefit from MRO Data Management

October 29, 2018

MRO Master Data Management is a discipline driven by two functional areas in manufacturing – Maintenance/Operations and Procurement. Both rely on technology and domain expertise to ensure the accuracy and...

MRO Storeroom Efficiency Extends Well Beyond Proper MRO Supply Storage

September 28, 2018

Posted by Glenn Pierce on Fri, 09/28/2018 I recently came across this “oldie, but goodie” in Efficient Plant Magazine about the importance of efficiency in MRO Storerooms. The article, written...

Overcoming Common Equipment Bill of Material (BOM) Woes

September 27, 2018

One of the simplest ways to reduce production downtime is to have a Bill of Material (BOM) for all of your organization’s equipment. If the BOMs don’t exist (or are...

How Standardized Data Leads to a More Powerful Data Analysis

September 26, 2018

Posted by John Delligatti on Wed, 09/26/2018 Google Dataset Search Engine Google has launched a new search type specifically engineered to assist people in finding datasets. Although the number of...

Scheduled Maintenance vs. Reactive Maintenance. Which Method is Really Better?

August 27, 2018

Manufacturing equipment maintenance comes in many forms. At one end of the spectrum is reactive maintenance – waiting for a piece of machinery to break down, then diagnosing and curing...

MRO Data Analytics: How to Leverage both Data and Market Trends

August 23, 2018

Posted by on Thu, 08/23/2018 The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Monthly issues the Manufacturing Index (58.1%) and Non-Manufacturing Index (55.7%) as noted for July 2018. I’d like to point...

Overcoming the Naysayers: Getting Others to Buy Into Your MRO Change Initiatives

July 25, 2018

Learning To Manage Change The Hard Way Procurement is a contact sport. Procurement professionals (by nature of being a shared support service) are always tasked to produce savings and compliance...

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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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