Delivering Procurement Value – when “Home Runs” are not easy to hit!
Posted by on Fri, 05/25/2018 It doesn’t matter where you are in your procurement career, we all hit that patch of work where the “low hanging fruit”, is higher in...
How to Tell When it May be Time to Move Towards Predictive Inventory Management
Traditionally, Min/Max inventory management applies to only a small percentage of items in the storeroom – items with a consistent, predictable consumption pattern. The trouble is that MRO isn’t always...
Why Your Maintenance Strategy is Only as Good as the Data in your CMMS
Whether your maintenance scheduling and inventory control tasks depend on SAP, Maximo, Asset Suite, eMaint or another CMMS, it is only as good as the data it uses. With clean,...
What’s Your Score? How Accessing Your Personal Skills Can Apply to Your MRO Business Partnerships
Posted by on Mon, 04/23/2018 I’m not talking about your golf handicap or your credit score. I’m thinking about where you score yourself against your peers in the workplace. Have...
How Facilities Management Data Analytics Can Help Capture more MRO Spend
Do you have visibility into your MRO spend? You may have even less visibility into it than you imagined. Working in MRO and Facilities Management Solutions, in our experience, we’ve...
Manufacturing organizations collect, store, and compare vast amounts of data from every department as they strive to become as efficient as possible. Unfortunately, this data is often redundant, incomplete, and...
The Way Forward – Change Management in a Changing World
Posted by on Fri, 03/23/2018 Recently I was asked to evaluate information on how best to understand and facilitate change within an organization. Specifically, involving services and MRO supply chain. ...
The Components That Make Up a Strategic Facilities Management Program
For over 50 years SDI has worked collaboratively with our clients to develop solutions that deliver the outcomes they desire – whether that’s reducing parts consumption, saving on piece price,...
Manufacturer Recalls Often Have Maintenance, Repair, and Operations to Blame: Gaskets and Tainted Lettuce
Posted by Jerome Blanc on Mon, 02/26/2018 Unfortunately, it’s becoming more and more common worldwide – the dreaded product recall. Sometimes it’s an airbag. Sometimes a baby stroller. And sometimes,...
