What you will learn:
- Understand the need for cultural and leadership alignment
- Discover strategies to create good relations
- Learn the facets of contract administration
- Analyze your supplier portfolio to segment appropriately
- Acquire ways to establish partnerships and strategic alliances
- Realize need for supplier diversity
- Determine how to create performance evaluations
- Learn the strategic benefits of supplier development and mentorship
- Evaluate opportunities for supplier continuous improvement
- Discover the value of early supplier involvement to your organization
- Leverage organizational innovation through supplier engagement
- Review ways to reduce costs through sharing with suppliers
- Understand supplier risk factors and ways to mitigate
- Acquire knowledge of supply base management
- Attain insight to optimize supply chain management
- Discover the power of SRM technology
Course Schedule:
This Guided Learning is a self-paced course consisting of online reading and four live webinars over a five week period. The webinars are scheduled for the following dates. If you are not able to attend a webinar live, they will be made available on-demand. In addition to the webinars, you instructor will accessible for questions and on-on-one assistance throughout the course.
07/17/25 from 4:00-5:00 p.m.ET
07/24/25 from 4:00-5:00 p.m.ET
08/07/25 from 4:00-5:00 p.m.ET
08/13/25 from 4:00-5:00 p.m.ET
Who Should Attend:
This ISM supply management course is ideal for buyers, category managers, purchasing managers, sourcing managers, materials managers, SRM managers, and other supply management professionals who seek to sharpen their supplier relationship management skills to support organizational goals and outcomes.