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Training and Education for Today’s Rapidly Changing Supply Chain Landscape
Our profession is advancing rapidly and changing almost daily, posing new challenges to the supply management professional. As our industry evolves, so does ISM training. We are the only supply management association that provides training in all areas of our supply management profession.
We stay on top of trends and changes to keep our training relevant to what our members expect and need for success. With globally-recognized training programs, ISM education is respected across industries within supply management.
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Ways to Train in Supply Chain Management
ISM offers a variety of ways to get the training you need for success and advancement.
ISM Certificates
Discover ISM Certificates for an in-depth study of supply management topics. Designed for supply chain pros, these empower skill development and career advancement.
Each program has 5 self-paced courses, followed by a knowledge quiz, equipping you with the expertise for success in today's marketplace.
Live Online Training
ISM offers a robust suite of live online training opportunities, recognizing that virtual learning is both convenient and economical. Choose from short, info-packed webinars to more in-depth virtual classroom and guided study courses where you get the benefit of live instruction.
Self-Paced Training
ISM provides a library of self-paced learning from hot topic, on-demand webinars, to interactive skill-based e-learning. These offerings are designed for the busy professional. You get the flexibility to study anytime, anywhere.
In-Person Training
Our Classroom In-Person Training is exclusively available as a customized group training program, delivered by global supply management industry experts to your team on-site. Benefit from in-depth seminars tailored to your organization’s unique needs, with focused learning and networking opportunities for your team members to engage with each other and their instructor.
Core Competency Areas for Training
ISM offers training across 16 core supply chain competencies and more than 70 sub-competencies. Explore each core competency area below to discover supporting education to advance your career.
Upcoming Education
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March
31
2026
TEST PRODUCT Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is the process by which an organization works with its suppliers to accomplish common goals or objectives. SRM is vital to the success of your organization’s top and bottom line. As a supply management professional, you play an essential role in the success of these relationships. And, the more skilled you are at navigating and managing these relationships, the more valuable you will be to your organization. This course will provide you with impactful strategies and models to optimize the performance of your suppliers. You’ll learn how to effectively partner with internal stakeholders to segment and manage your supplier relationships. Gain knowledge and skills to identify and execute relationship strategies to improve overall efficiency, performance, accountability, compliance and value.
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Apr-May
02-04
2026
GUIDED LEARNING
Negotiating for Excellence
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.
OnlineGreg DeSimone, CPSM, C.P.M. -
April
07
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.
Online -
April
08-09
2026
VIRTUAL CLASS
Procurement Bootcamp
Procurement is an organizational function that covers a multitude of business functions. This includes specification development, value analysis, supplier market research, negotiation, buying activities, contract administration and inventory management. This course will provide a holistic approach to managing your supply chain and drive strategic value to impact both bottom-line costs and top-line revenues.
OnlineDavid E Malone, CPSM -
April
14-15
2026
VIRTUAL CLASS
Supplier Cost Analysis and Financial Analysis
The objective of this course is to increase the knowledge, skills and abilities in supplier Cost Analysis and Supplier Financial Analysis. Cost analysis is a powerful tool for supply managers and can change the conversation with suppliers to open new opportunities for savings and value creation. Financial Analysis can also provide useful information that will lead to insights about whether your supplier is making too little or too much profit, whether they are generating cash or burning cash and if new risks may have arisen in recent reporting periods.
OnlineCollins Ifenyichukwu Oluka, CPSM
