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...
Why You Need Better Inventory Visibility, Including What’s Managed by a Third Party
You can’t manage or improve what you can’t see. That adage is never more appropriate than when it comes in inventory. Whether you do it yourself or rely on a...
5 Easy Ways to Improve Supplier Relationship Management
Optimal supplier relationship management requires much more than selecting low-cost, dependable vendors. COVID-19, globalization, and societal shifts have combined to shine a spotlight on how organizations can assure reliable streams...
What Is eProcurement and Why Your Company Should Care?
COVID-19 forced businesses of every kind to automate, digitize, and adopt technologies to overcome the constraints it exerted on the global supply chain. The pandemic and its aftermath highlighted the...
How 3D Printing Can Be Utilized to Futureproof the Facility Maintenance Supply Chain
How can we mitigate risk around asset downtime? What happens when OEMs or suppliers of critical materials are affected by pandemic-related issues, inflation, international conflicts, or natural disasters? Disruption has...
10 Technologies Reshaping the Integrated Supply Chain Management Ecosystem
Today’s economic outlook is creating a strain on even the largest organizations. From the tight labor market and skills gap to the disruption of supply chains and extended lead times,...
