Membership

Membership Benefits
Membership Qualifications

Why should I join?

Education – Enhance your skills by attending our local seminars taught by experienced instructors on topics like supplier selection, e-commerce, purchase planning, cost-price analysis, and more.

Professional Designation – the Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) and the CPSM Certified Professional in Supply Management certification programs demonstrate your competency of purchasing and materials management.

Networking – Open the doors to valuable contacts within the purchasing community at monthly dinner meetings and educational functions.

Committee Participation – Acquire new skills in planning, managing, and organizing while developing your leadership potential.

Professional Development Resources – Access to many books on purchasing and business topics, videotapes for purchase, self-study workbooks, computer-based programs, and C.P.M. and CPSM. study materials through ISM's Online Product/Service Catalog; useful job tools in the ISM Tool Kit ; and an incredible collection of Purchasing resource material in the ISM Resource Guides.

Purchasing Advocate – One of our objectives is to promote the purchasing profession locally and around the globe.

Who can join ISM?

• A person who is involved in the purchasing or supply management  process, including without limitation, purchasing, purchasing research, value analysis, inventory control, materials management, supply chain management, or any other activity or function which is related to the purchasing or materials process.
• An editor, secretary, or business manager employed by an Affiliated Association.
• A person with a full-time appointment as a teacher, research specialist, department head, director or dean of a college, university, or other academic institution whose academic responsibility includes purchasing management or materials management or other related fields or subjects.
• A regular member whose dues are currently paid on a continuous basis who is unemployed shall continue to be eligible for membership.
• A regular member whose dues are currently paid on a continuous basis who retires shall continue to be eligible for membership.
• An undergraduate or graduate student enrolled full time in an accredited community college or four-year college or university.
• A person who is engaged in the business of providing consulting services primarily in the field of purchasing management and materials management on condition that such person does not solicit members of an affiliated association for consulting engagements.

Renew Your Membership
To renew your membership, please login to the Member's Only section on the left side of the home page.  User name is defaulted to be the first letter of your first name followed by your last name.  For example, John Doe's user name would be jdoe.

E-mail: info@ismmilwaukee.org
Phone: 414/462-8645
USPS: 11801 W. Silver Spring Dr., Ste 200, Milwaukee, WI 53225.