Whether you’re a manufacturing plant or a retail facility, inventory management for the spare parts, consumables, and materials needed to maintain and repair facility and plant assets is crucial. For...
Understanding the Cost of Asset Downtime and How to Minimize It
Asset downtime can have a significant impact on an organization’s bottom line, resulting in lost productivity, revenue, and increased maintenance costs. When critical assets break down, production comes to a...
What to Do When Quality and Purchasing Costs Are out of Control
With competition increasing and competitive advantage difficult to sustain, profits in the manufacturing sector today often comes down to cost containment. Unfortunately, market conditions, supply chain issues, labor issues, invasions,...
Unlocking the Power of Digital Transformation with Effective Supply Chain Master Data Management
Master data – the information, statistics, processes, and guidelines that govern a business and its supply chain – has always been essential, strategic, and proprietary. The groundswell attending digital transformation...
How to Overcome Supply Chain Disruptions With Real-time Data Transparency
The global nature of business, geopolitical upheaval, impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic, increasing extreme weather events, and more factors are placing ever-greater strains on complex and interdependent supply chains....
How to Leverage Source to Pay Solutions in Your MRO Strategy
Few activities bear as heavily on a manufacturing or retail business’s success as the procurement and payment function. Source-to-pay (S2P) solutions dictate the price and terms of raw materials, the...
ProcureCon MRO 2022 Themes, Takeaways and Predictions
SDI was proud to sponsor and participate in this year’s Procurecon MRO. Procurecon events always share inspiring content from insightful guest speakers and provide a natural atmosphere that helps cultivate...
How to Incorporate AI in Supply Chain to Drive Business Forward
With margin-constrained organizations turning to maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supply chains as sources of cost savings and competitive advantages, the intent to connect the supply network to all aspects...
How Digital Supply Chain Technology Can Improve Facilities Maintenance Labor & Resource Planning
The “next normal” in facility management is already here, and the perfect storm is on the horizon. FM leaders, already resource-constrained by the pandemic and early retirements, are facing continued...
