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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.
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.
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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Upcoming Live Online Education
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September
09-10
2026
Successful supplier relationships drive both revenue growth and cost optimization. This advanced SRM course provides practical models and strategies for building supplier partnerships that deliver measurable business impact.
Participants learn how to prepare the organization for SRM, segment suppliers, leverage supplier innovation, improve performance management and optimize supply base effectiveness.
Recommended For
Buyers • Category Managers • Purchasing Mangers • Sourcing Managers • Materials Managers • SRM Managers • Supply Chain Managers
OnlineTina Oliver -
Sep-Oct
10-12
2026
GUIDED LEARNING
Strategic Cost and Price Management
Overview
Organizations increasingly rely on procurement to contribute to profitability beyond traditional cost savings. This course provides advanced techniques for analyzing, managing and controlling costs across the supply chain. Participants learn how to apply total cost of ownership, should-cost modeling, value analysis, financial tools and strategic cost management frameworks that support stronger sourcing and business decisions. You will have 60 days access after the last day of the course.
Recommended For
Category Managers • Supply Chain Analysts • Buyers • Purchasing Managers • Strategic Sourcing Professionals
OnlineGreg DeSimone, CPSM, C.P.M. -
September
17
2026
Almost every procurement team has AI running somewhere. Very few have managed to scale it.
Most organizations have landed in the same place: automated workflows with a human checking every output. That is real progress, and it is where the majority stall. Scaling is not a matter of adding more agents. It is a different problem with a different answer.
This session is a candid conversation for teams ready to move past that plateau. Our panel discusses why individual task-specific agents rarely scale, and why what scales is a governed workflow rather than a standalone agent.
From there, the discussion turns practical. The panel shares a six-part test they use to decide where AI should be deployed first, separating a use case that will scale from one that stalls after the pilot, and works through real examples of agentic AI running in procurement today.
The conversation closes on governing it: where a human should stay in the loop, what guardrails need to exist before an agent acts on its own, and the signals that tell you when it is safe to widen the boundaries. Plus the step most teams skip, which is what to baseline before you deploy, so results can be attributed and the next phase can actually be funded.
OnlineSaquib Jawed, Teresa O'Brien, Zycus Inc -
September
22-24
2026
VIRTUAL CLASS
Contracting: Beyond the Basics
Effective contracts require more than a basic understanding of terms and conditions. This course helps experienced supply chain professionals strengthen their ability to draft, evaluate and customize agreements across a wide range of business situations.
Participants review real contract clauses and their uses across services, software, construction and e-commerce scenarios and address contracting from a global perspective. You are encouraged to bring copies of your own contracts for reference and hands-on application during the program.
Recommended For
Procurement Managers • Contract Managers • Strategic Sourcing Professionals • Supply Chain Leaders • Purchasing Professionals
Prerequisite: Participants should have fundamental knowledge of business contracts, purchasing law and the UCC prior to attending.
OnlineChevazz Brown
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