From the Front Lines to Our Main Stage

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.

The process of successful negotiation is both an art and a science. Enhance your negotiation skills with this ISM course and influence the outcome of individual transactions, relationships with suppliers and your organization’s overall success. When planned appropriately, your organization can gain a significant advantage in position power in both the short and long term. Led by an ISM subject matter expert, this course covers negotiating with excellence through weekly webinars and daily online training modules that consist of multimedia, knowledge checks and practical application activities.

Sponsored by Zycus

The AI window is closing - not on adoption, but on advantage.

Every procurement leader is experimenting with AI. 100% of procurement leaders now report some level of AI implementation, and yet 72% still consider their AI maturity only "moderate," with successful use cases in some functions but limited efficiency gains at scale. The real question for 2026 is no longer whether to use AI - it's how to operationalize it enterprise-wide before your competitors do.

The shift from Generative AI to Agentic AI is redefining what's possible in procurement. Autonomous agents can now execute across sourcing, supplier management, negotiation, and payments - but only organizations that redesign their operating model around AI will capture the full value.

In this thought leadership webinar, Zycus brings together procurement innovators and industry analysts to tackle the hard questions CPOs are grappling with right now:

• Why most AI pilots stall - and the operating model changes that unlock enterprise scale.
• The Intake-to-Outcomes shift: How AI agents are rewriting the procurement journey from first request to final payment.
• Winning the talent equation: As AI and automation remove transactional friction, human relationships matter more at the points of trust and innovation - what that means for your team structure.
• Responsible AI in practice: Nearly all large companies deploying AI have reported some risk-related financial loss from compliance failures and flawed outputs - and how governance frameworks are separating leaders from laggards.
• Real benchmarks from digital leaders: Digital masters deliver 2× higher savings as a share of spend and 2.6× higher ROI than the average - what they're doing differently.

This year, the differentiator will no longer be who uses AI, but who can source, integrate, and scale it across the enterprise. This webinar gives procurement leaders the frameworks, case studies, and roadmap they need to move from experimentation to transformation.