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FEBRUARY 2018 Newsletter MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT NEWS HEAR FROM SOME OF OUR ANNUAL CONFERENCE SPEAKERS UPCOMING Michael Arpino Dear Members, I hope everyone has been enjoying their winter thus far. I really want to focus on the Annual Conference for the February 2018 Newsletter and tell you about the great speakers and topics we have lined up. This year the annual conference’s theme is Procurement Trends & Innovation. The event is taking place on March 8, 2018 at Amazon Business, 7 West 34th Street, New York and we really hope to see you there! Speakers Include: Diana Brown, Amazon Business • Heidi Cohen, Swiss Post Solutions • Frank Farnacci, The Millennium Group • Hilarie Gaylin, Cultivating Greatness, LLC • Debbie Hayes, Multiple Critical Access Hospitals • Lisa Jones, EyeMail, Inc. • James Kelly, JVKellyGroup, Inc. • David Nathans, SOCSoter, Inc. • Ryan Walicki, Nitor Partners I am excited to announce that we are featuring articles in the upcoming newsletters is articles written by or about our Annual Conference speakers or companies. Make sure to check some of them out below! Topics Include: Centering Yourself in the Present • Intelligent Automation • Office of the Future • The Value of Innovation in Health Care • Block Chain for Supply Chain • Riding the Economic Tide • Big Innovation from Small Business • Cyber Security IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please make sure you are completing our “Report on Business Survey” every month! This survey provides vital trend information on what is happening in our supply chain and your input is crucial to our success. It takes only a couple of minutes to click through the short survey, so thank you in advance for responding to the survey. Hope to see you soon! P.S. Don’t forget about the professional development courses we have upcoming! Michael Arpino ISM-NY President REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN ANNUAL CONFERENCE: PROCUREMENT TRENDS & INNOVATION at Amazon Business! – March 8, 2018! PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR ISM-NEW YORK UPCOMING EVENTS, MEETINGS AND SEMINARS. VISIT OUR WEBSITE, WWW.ISMNY.COM , TO VIEW ALL THINGS TO COME! Register Here EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONALS Thursday, March 15, 2018 Register Here Register Here ADVANCED STRATEGIC SOURCING Thursday, March 22, 2018 © 2018 ISM - New York, Inc. NITOR PARTNERS PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGY IS FOR EVERY ORGANIZATION (YES, EVEN YOURS!) EYEMAIL INC. - COMMENTARY FROM LISA Procurement technology is now for everyone. This has not always been true. The perception has been that procurement technology solutions are too expensive, do too much or are not worth the incremental investment. This is now simply false. Let’s dig into this: 1. The Tech Industry wants everyone to have access, including mid-market organizations The evolution of technology in general and procurement technology is as follows: 1970’s and before… Giant buildings with huge air conditioners housed massive mainframes that ran on tapes and cards. These mainframes barely had enough RAM to check emails – something we now do on our iPhones with ease. Life was better, but still big, expensive and required a degree in Engineering. Lisa S. Jones of EyeMail Inc. will be speaking at our ISM-NY Annual Conference in March on Big Innovation from Small Business. EyeMail is a marketing communications technology that generates a compelling & memorable instant-play video email experience, that drives open and click-thru rates upwards of 65%. Clientele includes Delta Air Lines, The Coca-Cola Company and Major League Baseball. EyeMail Inc. will be recognized as the 2018 Catalyst of the Year from Delta Air Lines, at the Delta Star Awards ceremony at the end of February 2018. For more information about how EyeMail can bring your email campaigns to life, please visit http://eyemailinc.com/overview/ Read More

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FEBRUARY 2018Newsletter

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

NEWS

HEAR FROM SOME OF OUR ANNUAL CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

UPCOMING

Michael Arpino

Dear Members,

I hope everyone has been enjoying their winter thus far. I really want to focus on the Annual Conference for the February 2018 Newsletter and tell you about the great speakers and topics we have lined up. This year the annual conference’s theme is Procurement Trends & Innovation. The event is taking place on March 8, 2018 at Amazon Business, 7 West 34th Street, New York and we really hope to see you there!

Speakers Include:Diana Brown, Amazon Business • Heidi Cohen, Swiss Post Solutions • Frank Farnacci, The Millennium Group • Hilarie Gaylin, Cultivating Greatness, LLC • Debbie Hayes, Multiple Critical Access Hospitals • Lisa Jones, EyeMail, Inc. • James Kelly, JVKellyGroup, Inc. • David Nathans, SOCSoter, Inc. • Ryan Walicki, Nitor Partners

I am excited to announce that we are featuring articles in the upcoming newsletters is articles written by or about our Annual Conference speakers or companies. Make sure to check some of them out below!

Topics Include: Centering Yourself in the Present • Intelligent Automation • Office of the Future • The Value of Innovation in Health Care • Block Chain for Supply Chain • Riding the Economic Tide • Big Innovation from Small Business • Cyber Security

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please make sure you are completing our “Report on Business Survey” every month! This survey provides vital trend information on what is happening in our supply chain and your input is crucial to our success. It takes only a couple of minutes to click through the short survey, so thank you in advance for responding to the survey.

Hope to see you soon!

P.S. Don’t forget about the professional development courses we have upcoming!

Michael ArpinoISM-NY President

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

ANNUAL CONFERENCE: PROCUREMENT TRENDS & INNOVATION

at Amazon Business! – March 8, 2018!

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR ISM-NEW YORK UPCOMING EVENTS, MEETINGS AND SEMINARS. VISIT OUR WEBSITE, WWW.ISMNY.COM, TO VIEW ALL THINGS TO COME!

Register Here

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONALSThursday, March 15, 2018

Register Here

Register Here

ADVANCED STRATEGIC SOURCINGThursday, March 22, 2018

© 2018 ISM - New York, Inc.

NITOR PARTNERS PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGY IS FOR EVERY ORGANIZATION (YES, EVEN YOURS!)

EYEMAIL INC. - COMMENTARY FROM LISA

Procurement technology is now for everyone. This has not always been true. The perception has been that procurement technology solutions are too expensive, do too much or are not worth the incremental investment. This is now simply false.Let’s dig into this:1. The Tech Industry wants everyone to have access, including mid-market organizations The evolution of technology in general and procurement technology is as follows:1970’s and before…Giant buildings with huge air conditioners housed massive mainframes that ran on tapes and cards. These mainframes barely had enough RAM to check emails – something we now do on our iPhones with ease. Life was better, but still big, expensive and required a degree in Engineering.

Lisa S. Jones of EyeMail Inc. will be speaking at our ISM-NY Annual Conference in March on Big Innovation from Small Business. EyeMail is a marketing communications technology that generates a compelling & memorable instant-play video email experience, that drives open and click-thru rates upwards of 65%. Clientele includes Delta Air Lines, The Coca-Cola Company and Major League Baseball. EyeMail Inc. will be recognized as the 2018 Catalyst of the Year from Delta Air Lines, at the Delta Star Awards ceremony at the end of February 2018. For more information about how EyeMail can bring your email campaigns to life, please visit http://eyemailinc.com/overview/

Read More