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

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...
MRO Change Initiatives

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

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...
4 Reasons to Partner with an MRO Service Provider

4 Reasons to Partner with an MRO Service Provider

Even as manufacturing companies race to increase their return on everything from engineering to marketing, they may be overlooking a rich source of cost savings and productivity enhancements. By engaging...

Building the Tools to Help Customers Better Understand their Indirect Supply Chain Needs… and Achieve Results

The Challenge with Data in the Indirect Spend World and The Unintended Consequences Businesses spend a huge amount of time managing their direct supply. And they should. These are the...
Four Areas of Wasted Spend in MRO Procurement and How to Fix Them

Four Areas of Wasted Spend in MRO Procurement and How to Fix Them

MRO procurement is often the least considered expense of your company’s consumables. Its humble, unpretentious nature is not often noticed unless costs escalate exponentially or a much-needed critical spare can’t...

The Quest for MRO Procurement Value in a Tech-Savvy World

Posted by on Wed, 06/20/2018 Next Generation…EVERYTHING! The term “Next Generation” may as well be another way of saying: What goes around, comes around. On a regular basis, we try...
3 Quick-Win MRO Services that Create an Immediate Impact

3 Quick-Win MRO Services that Create an Immediate Impact

The best maintenance, repair, and operations supply chains employ holistic approaches to monitoring, ordering, staging, and analyzing inventory. Such high-level integration often requires a commitment of purpose and resources not...

Delivering Procurement Value – when “Home Runs” are not easy to hit!

Posted by on Fri, 05/25/2018 It doesn’t matter where you are in your procurement career, we all hit that patch of work where the “low hanging fruit”, is higher in...
How to Tell When it May be Time to Move Towards Predictive Inventory Management

How to Tell When it May be Time to Move Towards Predictive Inventory Management

Traditionally, Min/Max inventory management applies to only a small percentage of items in the storeroom – items with a consistent, predictable consumption pattern. The trouble is that MRO isn’t always...
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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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