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The Benefits of Using a Supply Inventory Management System in Multi-Location Businesses

March 17, 2025

When your business scales rapidly or expands its territory, it adds strain to your supply chain. Needing additional production and storage facilities to accommodate growth is a great problem to...

Empowering Procurement: How SDI’s Strategic Collaboration is Driving Success for Arxada

March 6, 2025

In today’s dynamic business landscape, collaboration stands as a cornerstone of success. At SDI, we pride ourselves on forging strategic partnerships that drive innovation and efficiency in procurement and supply...

Identifying and Managing Critical Spares

February 25, 2025

In today’s landscape, every minute of unplanned downtime can lead to significant financial losses and production delays. With ongoing supply chain challenges and longer lead times, establishing an effective critical...

How to Choose the Right Supplier Relationship Management System for Your Business

February 20, 2025

Industry 4.0’s global and ultra-competitive business environment leaves no room for imprecise, resource-intensive, and error-prone manual supplier management. Delete the spreadsheet in favor of an automated supplier relationship management (SRM)...

Future-Proofing MRO and Indirect Procurement: Strategies for Long-Term Success

February 14, 2025

In an increasingly complex and unpredictable business environment, organizations must take proactive steps to future-proof their Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) and indirect procurement strategies. Supply chain disruptions, inflationary pressures,...

MRO Storeroom Management: Understanding The Big Picture

January 27, 2025

MRO storeroom management is the strategic approach to organizing and operating the space designated for storing critical parts and supplies used in maintenance, repair, and operations. Historically, MRO storerooms have...

How eProcurement Technology is Transforming Supply Chain Management

January 21, 2025

Businesses still encumbered by paper- or spreadsheet-based procurement face extinction as the digital supply chain era has dawned. Electronic procurement (eProcurement) technology streamlines business-to-business transactions by creating direct connections among...

Supply Chain Vulnerabilities: Is Your Organization at Risk?

January 14, 2025

In 2025, organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing their supply chains. Recent data shows alarming trends: prices have surged 12-15% on average, while lead times have extended by 30-50% for...

The Benefits and Challenges of Digital Supply Chain Integration

December 17, 2024

For many manufacturing companies, the maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supply chain often lags behind advancements in customer-facing activities like service delivery and order fulfillment. The primary reason? Incremental, cyclical...

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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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