NAPM-Denver, Inc has more than 600 purchasing and supply management members.
Join NAPM-Denver now to network and exchange ideas with other purchasing and supply management professionals.
Benefits of Membership
As a member, you are able to:
- Attend dinner meetings featuring exciting speakers and topics on purchasing; supply management and other timely subjects.
- Participate in the pre-dinner seminars and earn 1 Continuing Education hour for each session attended.
- Enjoy networking opportunities - Gain invaluable contacts from other members of the purchasing and supply management profession during monthly meetings and educational functions.
- Volunteer on committees and the Board of Directors - Acquire new skills in planning, managing and organizing while developing leadership potential.
- Attend a series of one or two day Professional Development Seminars.
- Attend the ISM Satellite Seminar series.
- Give input on programs to a dedicated and innovative Board of Directors that is working hard to develop new services and programs for an ever-changing profession.
- If unemployed, members have the opportunity to be added to a list of members available for employment. Prospective employers who contact the NAPM-Denver office are given the list for contact purposes.
- Become A.P.P. and C.P.M. Certified. These two professional designations are offered and administered by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). Members receive discounts on exams and study materials.
- Receive Inside Supply Management, a monthly magazine that contains valuable information on new trends and developments in the profession.
- Receive the ISM Report on Business, a monthly survey of purchasing statistics that is relied upon by leading economists and businessmen for forecasting and planning purposes.
- Look at the local NAPM-Denver website for meetings, seminars, business survey information, volunteer opportunities and the latest copy of the NAPM-Denver newsletter, Purchasing Buyline.
- Have unlimited access to ISM-Online (website, located at www.ism.ws) that includes job-related information, a wealth of articles on purchasing and supply chain management, ISM information and searchable databases.
- Join special interest Groups and Forums - Gain a deeper understanding of purchasing specialties and develop valuable connections across the United States.
- Receive purchasing-related research studies and benchmarks free from the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies (CAPS), a joint venture between ISM and Arizona State University.
- Seminars - Log-on to on-line seminars taught by experienced instructors. NAPM-Denver members receive discounts on seminars.
- Purchase and or rent professional development resources (videos, audio tapes and books) - ISM has over 80 different programs and over 50 books to choose from. ISM members receive discounts.