Member-Only Webinars for Supply Management Professionals
One of the many benefits of ISM membership
As an ISM member, you gain complimentary access to exclusive webinars focused on key trends, challenges, and developments shaping the supply management profession.
Delivered by leading experts and available live or on demand, these sessions provide timely insights to support continuous learning and professional growth.
Upcoming Webinars Education
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March
18
2026
SPONSOR WEBINAR
Fixing Contractor Risk in Modern Procurement
Despite AI and cutting-edge technology, nearly 50% of procurement professionals say contractor verification and onboarding is a top challenge. Reserve your seat to hear how technology is helping - and not helping – 150 + procurement pros across multiple industries.
Nearly 50% of procurement professionals say contractor verification and onboarding remains a top challenge. Despite AI and cutting-edge technology, procurement leaders and their teams say...
They use an average of 5 different tools to assess contractors, vendors, and suppliers.
At least 55% spend 1-5 business days assessing contractor certifications and qualifications.
Over 50% rely on physical audits and site visits to verify compliance and check certifications
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how technology is both supporting and hindering procurement teams across more than 150 professionals and multiple industries.
- Analyze new proprietary research findings related to contractor risk management, sourcing efficiency, and compliance challenges
- Identify key insights and practical takeaways from real-world procurement data to improve operational performance.
- Engage in a live Q&A session to deepen understanding and clarify research findings.
- Access and review the full research report to apply lessons learned within your own procurement strategy.
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March
24
2026
MEMBER WEBINAR
Member OnlyCreating Resilience and Sustainability: Navigating the Impact of Tariffs and Disruption
In this interactive presentation, trusted trade authority Tom Cook discusses the uncertainty and disruption in today’s global supply chain, outlining the solutions available for tariff mitigation and risk and spend management. The focus includes alternative sourcing, nearshoring, drawback, Foreign-Trade Zones, tariff engineering, tariff classification reviews, freight options, freight consolidation, Incoterms, and robust demand planning. Learn how to apply a “landed cost” approach to managing cost and risk: assessing and analyzing all costs related to the supply chain, from acquisition, freight, customs clearance, duties and taxes, to inland freight, warehousing, and distribution.
Learning objectives include:
- Understand the tariff environment: the context, the current status, and likely direction for 2026.
- Understand the impacted categories, products and processes and understand your options for mitigation.
- Understand the importance of trade compliance and risks and costs of non-compliance.
- Understand which tariff mitigation strategies can bolster supply chain resilience in the long term, and how to identify what will work for your company.
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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.
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