Be a Supply Chain Insider with Member-Only Webinars
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As an ISM member, you have access to exclusive, free webinars on topics that focus on hot trends, challenges and issues in supply chain. 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.
Member-only webinars are one of the many benefits our members enjoy most.
Webinar topics focus on hot trends, challenges and issues in our profession. 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.
This member benefit allows you to keep your pulse on the latest news, information, trends and updates that impact our profession. If you can’t make the webinars live, they are also available to members on-demand.
Member-Only Supply Chain Webinars
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April
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2026
SPONSOR WEBINAR
Building an AI-First Procurement Operating Model in 2026
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.
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April
16
2026
MEMBER WEBINAR
Member OnlyCost Beats Spend: How Procurement Leads — Instead of Reacts
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 benchma.
- 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
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April
16
2026
MEMBER WEBINAR
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