Are you satisfied with the value and service you receive from your existing supplier network, but struggle to efficiently manage the transaction side of MRO supply? Do you want to manage your storerooms with your own personnel but lack the tools to do the job well?  If that sounds like your company, you’re on the road to MRO supply chain efficiency — but you still need other pieces of the puzzle to realize total cost savings in every link of your supply chain: state-of-the-art technology and automated, disciplined processes.

SDI’s Hosted Solutions, built around an ASP (Applications Service Provider) model, ensures that you continue to benefit from your existing vendor relationships and experienced site personnel. Our team first analyzes all existing relationships and determines if there are more efficient supply options. We then provide you with recommendations on how to leverage your existing supplier network and/or supplement it with our vast network. All material pricing is passed through to you at cost — guaranteed.  As a pure integrator with no corporate ties to any single distribution business, SDI remains completely neutral to sourcing decisions.  Then we provide your site personnel with both the training and tools to manage the process well.  We continue to work with your team, monitoring performance and answering questions.  No other MRO supply chain company offers such impartiality and flexibility.

Upon agreement of a supplier network, SDI experts then provide best-in-class transaction management services — taking the burden of cumbersome administrative tasks off of your team. Customers who already have a well-defined MRO strategy with excellent supplier pricing in place benefit from a more cost-efficient, enterprise-wide approach to transaction processing without disrupting the service level or contracts of their existing supplier network.

SDI’s hosting process provides all of the traditional value of integrated supply while allowing the customer to continue strategic management of the MRO supply chain.  Key benefits include:

• Multiple service options, from a minimally invasive presence to full service
• Transaction processing, consolidation, and automation of traditionally high-volume, low-value transactions typically associated with MRO
• Contract compliance for existing agreements
• Online ordering tools with customized catalog based on what the customer actually needs, not generic “punch out” catalogs.
• Advanced site inventory management tools with sophisticated forecasting technology
• Flexibility to gradually build out to full service programs based on the success of each building block