SDI’s Blog: The Supply Chain Link

Learn how joining a digital purchasing cooperative can help optimize indirect spend management. By aggregating volumes and sharing collective intelligence, cooperatives drive increased cost savings, enhanced visibility, improved responsiveness, and...

Learn how purchasing cooperatives strengthen supply chain resilience. Aggregated buying power, diversified suppliers, data analytics, and flexible contracts reduce risks. Understand differences between traditional GPOs and modern cooperative models.

Industrial procurement has emerged as a critical function for any manufacturing and production company. Effective procurement management ensures the steady supply of the raw materials, components, equipment, and services that...

Streamlining maintenance work order completion for technicians by integrating mobile technology with CMMS platforms improves procurement processes. Ron Fijalkowski explains how.

In his recent talk at the Automation Leadership Conference, John Delligatti shares strategies to optimize supply chain data without large IIoT investments, emphasizing progress over perfection.

You Can’t Use What You Can’t Find That statement is never more valid than when discussing maintenance, repair, and operations components and retail merchandise. Much of the heavy lifting manufacturers...

Keeping your manufacturing equipment running is crucial, but equipment failures happen. Having the right spare parts on hand can get production back up quickly, while waiting for a needed part...

A centralized purchasing model offers many benefits that can help businesses operate more efficiently and reduce costs. While decentralized purchasing gives individual departments more control, a centralized system provides overall...

In the landscape of sourcing strategies, understanding which procurement solutions suit your needs is essential. With increasing complexities in supply chain management, both GPOs and purchasing cooperatives have emerged as...