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The Flexibility of Online Education with the Benefit of Live Instruction

Don't let travel restrictions or a crowded schedule derail your educational development as a supply management professional. As the leader in supply management education, ISM offers several flexible training options to achieve your supply management certification, or simply take a course in an area of interest to you for career growth. By investing in yourself, you will gain the higher level of expertise needed for professional growth and success.  

Designed with today's busy professional in mind, ISM offers live online training different lengths and learning styles to ensure you have access to the right materials, in the right format for you.  

Whether you are new to the field or a veteran professional, top experts in the field will help you build your knowledge and skills as a supply management professional with our live, online education.

Live Online Courses to Fit Your Schedule

Virtual Classroom

Virtual Classroom courses provide the opportunity to connect with your peers and learn from instructors in a focused, online classroom setting. Delivered live through Zoom, your instructor will dive deep into the topic at hand and provide opportunities for networking and collaborating with other participants.

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Guided Learning

Five weeks in length, Guided Learning courses provide a structure for you to work through materials at your own pace. Weekly instructor-led webinars can be attended live or watched on-demand, however attending live affords you the opportunity to engage with your instructor and other participants.

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Webinars

Webinar topics focus on hot trends, challenges and issues in our industry. They feature leading subject matter experts, offering insights and ideas that you won’t find or hear anywhere else. Webinars are all about timely, relevant information that arm you with valuable knowledge for success. 

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Explore ISM’s Live Online Supply Management Education Events

Online learning offers the convenience you need as a busy supply management professional to prepare for your supply management certification, or take a single course in an area of interest to you. ISM’s online learning layers in live instructor-led webinars to bring you the benefits of live instruction coupled with the flexibility of online study.

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Join us in the Virtual Classroom

Virtual Classroom courses offer a similar depth of content as face-to-face classroom seminars. Delivered live through Zoom, your instructor will encourage you to have your video on and that you turn on your microphone to ask questions and participate in discussions. What sets Virtual Classroom courses apart from other online learning experiences is collaboration and networking with other participants.

Upcoming Live Online Education

  • April

    16

    2026

    A practical guide to cost intelligence for volatile markets

    Procurement leaders are under more pressure than ever — from executives demanding cost justification, from suppliers pushing through price increases, and from a volatile market where tariffs, labor shifts, and input cost swings can change overnight. The expectation is clear: procurement should protect margins, manage risk, and advise the business with confidence.

    Most teams are still working with two imperfect tools. Spend analytics show where money went. Commodity indexes show what's happening in the market. But neither explains why the cost of the specific products you buy is changing — and neither gives you the data to push back on a supplier, protect a margin commitment, or brief your CFO with confidence.

    That gap is where procurement shifts from reactive to strategic.

    Cost intelligence closes it. By modeling the actual cost drivers behind the products you buy — materials, labor, energy, manufacturing inputs, tariffs — procurement teams can understand in real time what a product should cost, why a price changed, and whether a supplier increase is justified or inflated. That's not a report. That's a defensible position

    In this webinar, Daniela Osio, CEO and Co-Founder of Dalinea, will show how leading procurement organizations are using cost intelligence to:

    • Protect margins — identify where you're overpaying before a contract renewal, not after.
    • Manage risk — understand your exposure to raw material volatility, tariff shifts, and single-source dependencies before they become P&L problems.
    • Lead supplier negotiations — challenge price increase requests with cost-level data instead of market benchma.
    • Advise finance with confidence — bring a forward-looking cost view to the business, not just historical spend summaries.
    • Move procurement from a cost center to a strategic function — with the data to anticipate cost changes, not just explain them

    Attendees will walk away with a framework for understanding where cost intelligence fits in their current stack, what it unlocks that spend analytics and benchmarks cannot, and how to use industry-level cost insights to become the most informed voice in the room when supply chain decisions are being made.

    Learning Objectives:

  • How to use product-level cost modeling to challenge supplier narratives and protect negotiating power
  • Lead supplier negotiations — challenge price increase requests with cost-level data instead of market benchmarks.
  • What "proactive cost management" looks like in practice — real examples from procurement teams managing direct materials volatility
  • How to use cost intelligence to brief finance and the C-suite with credibility
  • How industry cost insights can transform procurement into a strategic advisory function
  • Online
  • April

    16

    2026

    MEMBER WEBINAR
    Member Only

    Member Orientation

    This webinar provides knowledge regarding the many benefits that come with being a part of the ISM community. Join us and learn about the essential tools, vibrant community, and exceptional learning that enhances your professional development. You'll also gain insight into the array of programs, services, and resources that are available to you through your membership.

    Online
    Megan Hays
  • April

    21-23

    2026

    Accelerate your certification journey with this comprehensive package, which includes: 

    • Live virtual classroom instruction over three consecutive days 
    • Six months of access to the digital learning system after course ends 
    • Access to a practice exam 
    • Supply Management Core Exam (exam registration is valid for six months from course end date) 

    This solution is the fastest and most effective way to prepare for and earn your certification. This bundle supports certification paths for CPSM, CPSD, and APSM

    Save over 15% when you purchase the Supply Management Core Bundle. 

    Please note: Bundled purchases are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. 

    This bundle utilizes the 3rd edition certification materials and exam. The Supply Management Core Exam or retakes must be taken by March 19, 2027.  

     

    Online
    Kimberly DeWitt, CPSM
  • April

    26-28

    2026

    SOCIAL EVENT
    Member Only

    ISM World 2026 Team Experience

    ISM World 2026 Team Experience
    Aurora, CO

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