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...
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...
How MRO As-a-Service can embed procurement as the value engine
Posted by Chris Moore on Sun, 03/20/2016 Spend Matters decribes themselves as bloggers. They were the first blog and social media site in the procurement and supply chain sector. But...
Achieving Consensus To Drive Real Change In Your Indirect Supply Chain: Driving Change
This is Part III of our three part series on Achieving Consensus to Drive Real Change in your Indirect Supply Chain. To learn more about making a case for change,...
At Last. The project team has worked its way through Define, Measure, Analyze, and Improve. It’s time to begin the Control phase. The key stakeholders gather to evaluate the solution...
Achieving Consensus to Drive Real Change in your Indirect Supply Chain: Case for Change
This is Part II of our three part series on Achieving Consensus to Drive Real Change in your Indirect Supply Chain. To learn more about Setting up Change, check out...
Achieving Consensus to Drive Real Change in your Indirect Supply Chain: Setting up the Change
Ensuring you’re on the market-shaping side of a changing industry and disrupted business model. Additive manufacturing and 3D Printing innovations, compressed product life cycles, and changing consumer expectations are forcing...
