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SDI’s Lean Six Sigma Principals Boosts Productivity

June 29, 2017

SDI embraces Lean Six Sigma (LSS) not only for its own mission, but also as a framework for helping our customers dominate their industries. As maintenance, repair, and operations logistics...

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

February 23, 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...

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

December 19, 2016

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!

December 19, 2016

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...

3D SCANNING TECHNOLOGY HELPS SDI SLASH COSTS AND LEAD TIMES FOR MAJOR BEVERAGE COMPANY

November 21, 2016

When you’re one of the largest beverage and brewing companies in the world, and a filler gear fails on the line, time is money. SDI 3D-scanned the part, converted it...

Value Stream Mapping: The Path to Efficiency

October 13, 2016

A Value Stream Map is simply a visual depiction of a process. By viewing workflow at it stands currently, manufacturing and even service companies can “see” where it is wasting...

SDI Employees Receive MRO Reliability Training from University of Tennessee

September 21, 2016

A new training initiative recently attended by employees will help SDI provide customers with even greater alignment of its maintenance, repair, and operations processes. The training is developed and presented...

MRO Engineers: The Knowledge and Experience to Improve Your Processes

September 21, 2016

So you’ve decided to outsource your Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) processes and are considering the alternatives. Some may favor the ‘easy call’ and go with a parts distributor, but...

Treat Factory Assets like Valued Customers

August 26, 2016

Companies often shuffle their maintenance, repair, and operations process into the most convenient and least time-consuming silo. They may know intuitively that it is not the most efficient way to...

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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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