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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August
06
2026
MEMBER WEBINAR
Member OnlyAI-Native Cost Intelligence to Turn Procurement into a Profit Center
Procurement leaders are under pressure to do more than manage spend—they’re expected to drive measurable business value. This member-only webinar explores how AI-native cost intelligence is reshaping procurement into a strategic profit lever.
Join Gautam Pasari, Founder and CEO of True ValueHub, a 2025 ISM Supply Chain Trailblazer winner, for a focused discussion and case study on how organizations can move upstream in the cost lifecycle, increase transparency across global supply networks, and accelerate sourcing decisions without compromising rigor. You’ll gain practical insight into how AI is enabling faster, more informed collaboration across engineering, sourcing, and supplier ecosystems.
What you’ll learn:
- Why early-stage cost intelligence matters
Understand how influencing the first 70–80% of cost during design can unlock greater savings and reduce downstream trade-offs. - How to build transparency and tariff resilience
See how breaking costs into clear drivers—materials, manufacturing, logistics, and carbon—creates a shared understanding with suppliers and strengthens your ability to model and respond to tariffs and trade shifts. - How AI is accelerating sourcing cycles
Explore how AI-enabled workflows can compress RFQ timelines from months to days, enabling real-time collaboration and more strategic decision-making.
Learning Objectives
- Identify how early-stage cost intelligence influences 70–80% of total product cost and apply this insight to improve design-phase decision-making.
- Evaluate cost drivers across materials, manufacturing, logistics, and carbon to improve transparency, strengthen supplier alignment, and model the impact of tariffs and trade changes.
- Apply AI-enabled approaches to accelerate RFQ and sourcing processes, reducing cycle times and enabling more effective real-time collaboration.
OnlineGautam Pasari - Why early-stage cost intelligence matters
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August
20
2026
MEMBER WEBINAR
Member OnlyMember 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.
OnlineMegan Hays -
August
20
2026
U.S. manufacturers are being repriced faster than their cost data can keep up. Tariffs stack, raw material prices swing, and trade rules shift mid-quarter, and every one of those events hits margin and competitiveness directly. For procurement teams the job has changed: you need the true total landed cost of every part, origin cost, freight, logistics and duties, and you need it again as soon as conditions move.
Tom Yanowsky of KNF Neuberger shares what this looks like inside a U.S. plant that manufactures locally while sourcing from European sister factories: how tariff changes reshaped sourcing decisions, why the answer still lives in Excel instead of SAP, and where the localize-or-import calculation actually breaks down.
Johannes Groll, Chief Product Officer at Tacto, then shows how AI changes the economics of that work: Tacto Intelligence models complex supply chains and cost drivers across hundreds of thousands of parts at once, so buyers get landed cost transparency in minutes rather than weeks and can defend price increases with facts instead of arguments.
Includes live product demonstrations and time for audience Q&A.
OnlineJohannes Groll, Thomas Yanowsky
