IPSCMI, The International Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Institute, is the only organization of its kind offering a complete “portfolio” of training, education, and professional certification programs offered throughout the world in all modes of instruction, including conventional public seminars, in-house seminars, online, satellite, and other distance learning modes. IPSCMI is the “brainchild” of Dr. LeRoy Graw, who created a predecessor organization with the same mission and scope of operations in 1989 called the “National Contract Service Corporation” (NCSC). NCSC ceased its operations in 1999 when Dr. Graw shifted his business focus from the US to Asia. Because of its similar business scope, IPSCMI is in fact “the son of NCSC”. IPSCMI is a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) in the State of Delaware, United States of America. Its shareholders include such distinguished individuals/organizations as the American Purchasing Society, Singapore Purchasing and Supply Association (PASAS), CATTAN Services Group, Inc. and Jumanji Group, (US and China branches). These organizations are, in addition, esteemed and valuable alliance partners of the IPSCMI.
IPSCMI’s purchasing and supply chain management courses and programs are provided around the world by a complete network of alliance partners which contract with IPSCMI for collaboration in conducting the IPSCMI programs. Training courses are usually joint IPSCMI/alliance partner efforts, in order to deliver quality programs catering to the needs of the diverse student clientele. Instructors, whether they are provided by IPSMCI or the alliance partner, must be certified in the discipline they teach. In Asia and the Middle East, every effort is made to find qualified local instructors, who can teach the curricula in the local native language, without the need for interpretation. When American or other non-native instructors are used, a local interpreter with intensive background/knowledge of purchasing and supply chain management acts as a “second instructor” for those students without complete English facility.
