For your school district, MRO supply chain management is anything but elementary. Inefficiencies like excess inventory, staff downtime, and mismanagement rapidly take a toll on your maintenance and custodial budget. Plus, students (and faculty) are often affected when facilities aren’t well maintained.

It’s a complex challenge, and only SDI has the answer. Our MRO supply chain solutions are designed to streamline maintenance and custodial operations across your district. They help you cut costs, increase efficiency, and realize all the benefits of an optimized MRO supply chain. Whether you’re looking to create or reorganize your storeroom and reduce inventory costs, outsource the management of your maintenance operations, or uncover new opportunities to boost productivity, we have the answer.

Best of all, SDI is not a distributor. This means we’ll never push you to buy from our vendors — we’ll work with your approved state-contracted vendors to get the most out of your funding. It’s one more way we help you maximize your budget.

Although maintenance supplies may cost only pennies per piece, chinks in your supply chain — like excess inventory, transaction management, and poorly managed materials — quickly drain your budget. Our MRO solutions help you eliminate inefficiencies, protect budget dollars, and:

• Cut Costs Dramatically. We’ve helped customers eliminate inventory surplus, excess paperwork, obsolete stock, and other costly inefficiencies in the first year of the program.
• Gain District-Wide Control. Our program centralizes all of your maintenance supplies and data for increased efficiency district-wide.
• Improve Student Education. The money you save can be invested in improving education in your district, or used to relieve the backlog of maintenance requests to improve their learning environment.
• Make More Informed Decisions. Historical tracking and comprehensive management reports arm you with the right data for smarter decision-making.
• Increase Staff Productivity. SDI customers typically achieve order-fill rates of up to 99%, so your staff doesn’t have to waste any more time waiting for critical parts and supplies.
• Reduce your Technology Investment. Without a heavy, up-front investment, you can increase efficiency with SDI’s advanced technology for MRO — including hand-held devices for mobile work-order management. 

• Outsourced Solution — We take total control of your MRO supply chain through on-site storeroom staffing so you can focus on educating students.
• Hosted Solution — We deliver an ASP-based solution that offers state-of-the-art technology, processes, and support for your existing personnel.
• Enterprise Solution — We link all of your facilities, systems, processes, and people through a single, district-wide solution, operating through a common platform.
• Inventory Management — We forecast your school district’s need for maintenance supplies and replenish them as needed, optimizing your inventory and reducing related costs by as much as 40%.
• Productivity Program — We continually evaluate your maintenance and custodial operations and uncover new ways to boost productivity and savings.
• Mobile Technology — We link your management staff and maintenance workers — district-wide — via hand-held, wireless devices.
• Custom Catalogs — We provide a custom, electronic catalog that enables staff to search for and procure materials you typically purchase in an easy-to-use, Internet-based format.