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Supply Management News & Reports
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The Changing Dual Use Landscape
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Shared Strategies, Support ... and Success
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Getting the Best Deals in Negotiations
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Upcoming Education
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September
12
2024
Join us for a candid discussion and behind-the-scenes look at the remarkable career journey of Ann Ackerson, a prominent senior supply chain executive. Ann will share her personal highs and lows, offer invaluable insights and lessons learned throughout her distinguished career. From navigating challenges to seizing opportunities, Ann's story is one of resilience, determination, and success.
Ann is a CPO with more than three decades of strategic sourcing, material management, and global supply chain leadership experience she acquired while working for multi-billion dollar manufacturing and services companies.
This webinar is a must-attend for women aspiring to excel in the field. Discover how Ann carved her path to the top and emerged as a respected leader. Gain practical advice and empowering recommendations tailored specifically for women in supply chain roles.
ISM membership is not required to attend – all are welcome.
Online -
Sep-Oct
12-14
2024
GUIDED LEARNING
Category Management Best Practices and Beyond
Category management requires that you think of the big picture and ISM's Guided Learning will enable you to fully leverage this strategic procurement opportunity. Designed with today's busy professional in mind, this comprehensive, self-paced course will provide an understanding of supply chain dynamics and their broader impact on your organization.
Greg DeSimone, C.P.M. -
September
24-26
2024
VIRTUAL CLASS
Contracting: Beyond the Basics
Many supply chain professionals learn the basics of contracting on the job. However, to advance in your profession, you’ll need to develop more sophisticated contracting skills. This supply chain management course will provide you with advanced contracting know-how to progress in your career and take on new challenges. In this “beyond the basics” contracting course, you’ll build upon your existing contract knowledge and take it a step further by focusing on how to construct effective customized agreements. For hands-on practice, you’ll review numerous contract clauses and their uses in various situations, including services, software, construction and e-commerce. This course will also address contracts from a global perspective to prepare you with global contracting skills, an in-demand skill set. To ensure this course is applicable to your specific role, you're invited to have copies of your contracts for reference during the program.
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September
24
2024
MEMBER WEBINAR
Member OnlySupply Chain Costing and Performance Management
This presentation is based on the book “Supply Chain Costing and Performance Management” that Gary Cokins co-authored published by John Wiley & Sons. The book is a result of a research study to examine the application of supply chain profit and costing measurement methods in multiple industries and international settings.
Learning Objectives:
- Why there is pressure on supply chain trading partners to collaborate rather than be adversarial.
- Why customers are the source of shareholder wealth creation for suppliers.
- How to measure and manage supplier, product, channel, and customer profitability.
- Why as differentiation from product advantages is reduced or neutralized due to commoditization, then service level differentiation matters, and the customer relationship grows in importance as a competitive advantage.
- How to shift the mindset from growing sales to growing profitable sales and to view customers as investments like in a stock portfolio to seek higher ROIs – return on customers (ROC).
- How to consider influencing a company’s suppliers’ suppliers and customers’ customers – second tiers and above.
Online - Why there is pressure on supply chain trading partners to collaborate rather than be adversarial.
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September
26
2024
SPONSOR WEBINAR
Supplier.io Presents the 2024 State of Supplier Diversity
In this webinar, experts from Supplier.io will present findings from their 7th annual State of Supplier Diversity report. This report highlights the key trends, decisions, and actions of supplier diversity leaders.
Combined with over $2T in spend analysis, Supplier.io surveyed over 350 supplier diversity professionals across a number of topic areas including executive support, program management, data, results, politics, relationship to the business, ESG and more. This discussion is a must-attend event for any procurement and supplier diversity leader today.
Join us to explore these items in-depth and discover how to improve your supplier diversity program to keep up with the industry.
The 2024 report specifically explores a few current trending topics including:
- The impact of politics on supplier diversity programs
- Business support and how well leaders are connecting with business peers
- The growing importance of sustainability in procurementOnline
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