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Emerging 2020 Trends in MRO Logistics

Emerging 2020 Trends in MRO Logistics

E-commerce has brought great advancements to management of the maintenance, repair, and operations supply chain. From cost control and spend management to aggregation of strategic insights and workflow transparency, the...
March 1st Symposium Recap: Tail Spend Management

March 1st Symposium Recap: Tail Spend Management

Earlier this month, SDI, in partnership with Penn State’s Center for Supply Chain Research, The Hackett Group, Dryden and Ascend Performance Materials hosted this year’s first quarterly Innovation Symposium. The...
The Reliability of Everything: SDI Reliability Engineers present at MARCON 2017

The Reliability of Everything: SDI Reliability Engineers present at MARCON 2017

The 21st annual Maintenance and Reliability Conference, MARCON 2017, will be held March 6 – 9, 2017 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The theme is “The Reliability of Everything (ROE) –  The...
MRO Supply Categories Require Distinct Strategies

MRO Supply Categories Require Distinct Strategies

Manufacturing industry observers often urge companies to centralize the maintenance, repair, and operations procurement category in order to control spend and improve efficiency. But at SDI, we know MRO does...
SDI Hosts Q1 Innovation Symposium on Tail Spend

SDI Hosts Q1 Innovation Symposium on Tail Spend

On March 1st, SDI will open its doors to research analysts, subject matter experts and practitioners to talk about the last frontier in procurement: tail spend. Typical procurement practice brings...
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2016’s MRO Trends: SDI Leads the Way

Manufacturing firms in 2016 continued to emphasize better management of their maintenance, repair, and operations, in the quest for greater control, visibility, and efficiency. Three important trends emerged during the...
Repair Strategy as a Component of Reliability-Centered MRO

Warranty & Repair Strategy as a Component of Reliability-Centered MRO

For the last 50 years, we’ve built our solutions to address the needs and pain points of our customers. We call our platform for supply and demand side management, Reliability-Centered...

Overall Equipment Effectiveness? Get the Measure of Your Production Operations!

Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) is frequently seen as a back-room topic in many manufacturing firms. That’s why it’s often overlooked, while direct materials get the limelight.  Getting the Basics...
Dogs Chase Their Tail Because They Are Irritated and That's How Most Companies Deal With MRO Tail Spend.

Dogs Chase Their Tail Because They Are Irritated and That’s How Most Companies Deal With MRO Tail Spend.

In most companies, tail spend goes unnoticed until an executive becomes irritated with excess inventory, bloated carrying costs, inflated shipping fees, or a product outage that brings down a production...
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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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