Seminars, Training & Review Courses


Certified Professional in
Supply Management (CPSM)
Review Courses
(Sponsored by ISM-LA)

CPSM
ISM LA along with other local chapters has partnered with one of the finest instructors available to offer CPSM courses, The President of Perpetual Frontiers, Merle Roberts, C.P.M., CPSM. Please follow this link to find the next course near you. http://perpetualfrontiers.com/schedule.htm

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Past Events

TAKING CHARGE:
A TOTALLY NEW WAY OF NEGOTIATING THAT GUARANTEES SUCCESS
(sponsored by NAPM-San Fernando Valley)


Date:  Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time:  7:30AM - 4:30PM
Location:  Holiday Inn Burbank Media Center
                 150 E. Angeleno Avenue
                 Burbank, CA 91502 
Registration Fees:  click on brochure link below

NAPM-SFV is sponsoring a seminar entitled "Taking Charge- A totally new way of Negotiating that Guarantees your Success". 

The speaker is Dr. Ross Reck.  You may know him from his best selling books, The Win-Win Negotiator, REVVED - An Incredible Way to Rev up Your Workplace and Achieve Amazing Results, Turning your Customers into your Sales Force, The X-Factor and Instant Turnaround - Getting People Excited About Coming to Work and Working Hard. 

During this course, you will learn to develop plans to achieve dramatic results, build relationships that lead to "yes", and reach agreement that make both parties better off and more. 

Dr. Reck is a compelling and dynamic speaker and has been featured at hundreds of meetings, conferences and conventions throughout the United States and the world.  The seminar is being at the Holiday Inn in Burbank.
Building Competitive Advantage:
How DHL Leverages Technology to Unleash Supplier Innovation and Drive Value Across the Enterprise 

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010

Time: 1:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 a.m. PST

Live Interactive Panel Discussion

Don't miss this Free, 1-hour STREAMING ONLY Web event hosted by ISM and sponsored by Emptoris.

http://www.ism.ws/1768

(See below for participation details)

Register today. Participants will be able to take part in live Q&A during the main presentation with a live, interactive panel, so come prepared with questions!

With the global economy emerging from a deep recession, procurement professionals grapple with higher performance expectations more than ever. Supplier collaboration is increasingly more important to help organizations regain the profitability they enjoyed just a few years ago.

Leading procurement organizations have the right processes and technologies in place to regain their competitive advantage. They have raised the profile of procurement within their enterprise to better manage total costs and negotiate optimal contracts. They are also masters at engaging suppliers in relationships that drive profitability. If your organization is not quite there now is the time to take action.  Join us for a live, interactive panel discussion where you'll learn:

•        Practical supplier partnering approaches that encourage innovation

•        How technology can give you a competitive advantage both internally and externally

•        Strategies to strengthen your supplier relationships to increase profitability

•        Techniques to source high profile services that can reduce costs

Featured Speakers:

Wayne Evans
Sr. Vice President, Procurement
DHL

Sven Blawatt
Manager, Procurement
DHL

Sean Correll
Global Director, Consulting Services
Emptoris

Moderator:

Donavon Favre
Professor, Supply Chain Management
North Carolina State University

Attendance of the live session of this Web Seminar qualifies for one CEH credit at ISM.

Participation Details: You will need a computer with Internet access and sound in order to participate in this event. This is a streaming only Web seminar and you will not be required to have a phone in order to listen. After you register, our provider's system will recognize your PC when you return to attend. If you wish to attend the event on a different PC from which you registered, you will need to input the email address that was included in your registration in order to log in.

For multiple people viewing the seminar on one PC, please print-out a copy of the CEH certificate for each participant and have the person who registered for the event (or the participants' manager/s), sign the certificate in order that all participants receive CEH credit. CEH credit is given for attendance of live Web Seminars only and is issued via email within 14 business days of the event. NO CEH credit is given for viewing archived Web seminars. ISM Web seminars are archived on ISM's Web site within 14 days.

Don't Train –
Make an Investment and Expect a Return

Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 

Time: 11:00 a.m. EST / 8:00 a.m. PST Don't miss this Free, 1-hour STREAMING ONLY Web event hosted by the ISM-ADR School for Supply Management.

http://www.ism.ws/1671

(See below for participation details)

Supply management teams need to apply the same strategic approaches and discipline to their professional development as they do to the purchasing categories they manage. Unfortunately, many companies approach professional development as an ad hoc string of training courses. Employees may learn new skills, but without support, it is difficult to put these new skills to use.

A better approach is targeting employee needs and providing a professional development program where learning experiences are put to use by providing long-term mentoring, coaching and monitoring progress.

Join Bill Michel and other members of the ISM-ADR School for Supply Management to discover why training may be considered an expense, but professional development is an investment with high returns and measurable results. You will learn:

How "Training" and "Professional Development" differElements of a Professional Development ProgramThe importance of a Personal Development Plan (PDP)How to embed new skills into the workplaceAbout measuring your Return on Investment (ROI)

Featured Speaker/s:

Bill Michels C.P.M.

Chief Executive Officer

ADR North America LLC.

Moderator:

Rene A. Yates CPSM, C.P.M.

Manager, ISM School for Supply Management™

Institute for Supply Management®

Attendance of the live session of this Web Seminar qualifies for one CEH credit at ISM.

Participation Details: You will need a computer with Internet access and sound in order to participate in this event. This is a streaming only Web seminar and you will not be required to have a phone in order to listen. After you register, our provider's system will recognize your PC when you return to attend. If you wish to attend the event on a different PC from which you registered, you will need to input the email address that was included in your registration in order to log in.

For multiple people viewing the seminar on one PC, please print-out a copy of the CEH certificate for each participant and have the person who registered for the event (or the participants' manager/s), sign the certificate in order that all participants receive CEH credit. CEH credit is given for attendance of live Web Seminars only and is issued via email within 14 business days of the event. NO CEH credit is given for viewing archived Web seminars. ISM Web seminars are archived on ISM's Web site within 14 days.

Final C.P.M. Workshops
(Review Courses)
Note: These are NOT the CPSM Review Courses

Before you take your final CPM test, make sure you're prepared! Merle Robert's Perpetual Frontiers is beginning a final series of C.P.M. preparation workshops in Orange County beginning on 10-31-09.

Complete schedule for the workshops of each module:
Module 1 - 10-31-09 (complete)
Module 2 - 11-07-09 (complete)
Module 3 - 11-14-09 (complete)
Module 4 - 11-21-09 (complete)

These coursed are being offered in cooperation with NAPM-OC and Perpetual Frontiers. Click the below link for more information:
www.perpetualfrontiers.com/schedule.htm 

* Last day to take C.P.M. Exams is 12/31/2009

Containing Costs at The Container Store –
A Lesson in Smarter Spending

Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009

Time: 2:00 p.m. EST / 11:00 a.m. PST

Don't miss this Free, 1-hour STREAMING ONLY Web event hosted by ISM and sponsored by Coupa.

http://www.ism.ws/1655

(See below for participation details)

Let's face it 2010 will be tough. Expect:

$3.00 / gallon for gas to be the new norm

Consumers to continue to cut back, saying good-bye to $4 cups of coffee and nightly take out

Companies to respond to declining sales and thinning profit margins with continued hiring and budget freezes

That despite all the economic changes challenges, you will be asked deliver 10% more savings with 10% less resources

The businesses that will end up on top are ones that can contain their cost structure and embrace next generation procurement as the foundation for complete spend control and savings management.

The Container Store: Putting a Lid on Supply Management Costs

From purchasing processes to shipping, businesses must rely on efficiencies to keep costs low and productivity high. For retailers like The Container Store, being able to efficiently manage the non-merchandise supply process by using next generation procurement has delivered great results.

During this live, one-hour web event, you will have the opportunity to learn from purchasing and supply management practitioners and discover how The Container Store is:

Saving 36 hours a week that was previously wasted maintaining in-house inventory and manually shipping supply orders by integrating their supply management process with warehouse management and supplier systems.

Giving managers a reality check of just how much they are spending by stockpiling and over-ordering supplies by exposing end costs to inventory managers.

Accurately charging supply costs to individual stores based on supply usage and not just by arbitrary measures like percent of sales volume.

Delivering greater price discounts by creating a supply management machine that automates the req-to-pay process and allows purchasing to focus more on negotiating strategic contracts instead of pushing paper.

Featured Speakers:
Scott Jones
Purchasing Manager
The Container Store

Mike Morrow
Purchasing Agent
The Container Store

Jason Hekl
Vice President of Marketing
Coupa Software

Attendance of the live session of this Web Seminar qualifies for one CEH credit at ISM.

Participation Details: You will need a computer with Internet access and sound in order to participate in this event. This is a streaming only Web seminar and you will not be required to have a phone in order to listen. After you register, our provider's system will recognize your PC when you return to attend. If you wish to attend the event on a different PC from which you registered, you will need to input the email address that was included in your registration in order to log in.

For multiple people viewing the seminar on one PC, please print-out a copy of the CEH certificate for each participant and have the person who registered for the event (or the participants' manager/s), sign the certificate in order that all participants receive CEH credit. CEH credit is given for attendance of live Web Seminars only and is issued via email within 14 business days of the event. NO CEH credit is given for viewing archived Web seminars. ISM Web seminars are archived on ISM's Web site within 14 days.
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