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The “M” in MRO Supply Chain Management: How Each Maintenance Category Can Boost Your Bottom Line

Manufacturing and other industries are increasingly treating maintenance, repair, and operations procedures as core functions, working to integrate the MRO value chain with other key activities. Technological advances increase companies’...
SDI’s State of the Art 3D Laser Scanning Tool

SDI’s State of the Art 3D Laser Scanning Tool

The high cost of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) replacement parts for production equipment has always been a challenge for SDI customers.  The OEMs are often the sole source of supply...

Ridding Your Warehouse of SLOB Inventory

All too often, MRO inventory doesn’t work hard enough due to poor inventory management. In many instances, spare machine parts, pipe fittings, gaskets, bolts, and other common indirect materials simply...
Why Streamlining the MRO Ordering Process is a Necessity

Why Streamlining the MRO Ordering Process is a Necessity

Manufacturing companies are increasingly beginning to understand that indirect materials—maintenance repair and operations (MRO) materials in particular—are well deserving of serious attention.  For the typical manufacturer, MRO takes a back...

Event Recap: SDI at ISM 2016, Spend Matters Names SDI to Their 50 Providers to Watch List

SDI had the pleasure of exhibiting at this year’s ISM Annual Conference from May 16-18th in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Institute for Supply Management’s annual event sees over 2,500 global supply...

Want to Focus on Strategy? First Clean Up Your MRO Supply Chain!

Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) is a critical—but often overlooked—element of the supply chain. Certainly, when compared to the attention paid to direct materials, MRO can be a procurement and...

The market-shaping side of a changing industry.

Posted by Debra Yorkman on Wed, 05/04/2016 The Pharmaceutical Industry is moving to continuous manufacturing in an effort to produce batch sizes of one. Medical Device Manufacturers are applying image...

Breaking down supplier relationship management

Posted on Thu, 04/21/2016 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is a systematic, enterprise-wide assessment of suppliers’ assets and capabilities in view of the organizations overall business strategy, a determination of what...
You know you’re in MRO Trouble when…

You know you’re in MRO Trouble when…

MRO is a mission-critical, core-enabling, integrated business process. But it’s also one of the greatest sources of waste and value destruction in many organizations. MRO can directly impact business outcomes...
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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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