SDI’s Blog: The Supply Chain Link

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...

Fewer qualified workers are available to maintain equipment, causing production slowdowns and stoppages. With less people going into this field and more existing personnel deciding to retire, many companies are...

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...

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,...

Given the robust technology and intuitive user interfaces available, nearly every industry or business vertical can benefit from implementing mobile procurement tools. With the interconnected, global nature of supply chains,...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the world’s lack of readiness to manage through a global supply chain crisis and the need for digital supply chain solutions and management strategies that reduce...

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SDI has always taken the lead in integrating supply chain management systems and aligning processes to make sourcing, storing, moving, and accessing critical maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplies more...

Organizations, still reeling from the supply chain fallout from the COVID19 pandemic, continue to be squeezed tighter as they try to find a new balance between supply and demand. Challenging...