About AHRMM

AHRMM offers a full calendar of events each year to its members and the industry at large. AHRMM Members receive discounted pricing on most educational programs. Affiliated AHRMM chapters also offer local education opportunities. For details visit the Chapter Event Calendar.

AHRMM offers Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for attending programs.

2012	Program/Event	Overview
May 31	Webinar: Why the Item Master Does Not Support Value Analysis Efforts	Learn how today’s Strategic Sourcing tools can provide the accurate data needed to support value analysis and standardization efforts.
June 6	Webinar: Physician/Supply Chain/Vendor Collaboration: A Formula to Standardize Spine Products to Deliver Savings	Learn how Dartmouth-Hitchcock followed physician leadership to move from four spine product vendors to one and deliver millions of dollars in savings.
June 13 & 19	Webinar: CMRP Overview 2-Part Series	Taught by certified peers, a three-hour refresher course to become better prepared for the Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) examination.
June 14	Webinar: Artificial Intelligence – The Future of Supply Chain	Learn how artificial intelligence can help support success of value analysis and standardization initiatives, especially through management of high-cost physician preference items.
July 19	Webinar: Strategies to Improve Efficiency and Compliance in Supplier Management	Learn a standard process for use in supplier management and how to create strategic sourcing agreements that benefit both suppliers and healthcare providers for both clinical and pharmaceutical sourcing.
August 5-8	AHRMM's 50th Annual Conference & Exhibition	San Antonio, Texas
August 15	Webinar: Show Me the Money - Successful Supply Chain Savings	This presentation is designed to help managers recognize the qualities and talents needed to create successful cost-reduction, success focused teams, identify savings opportunities, implement cultural and practice changes, and sustain the changes.
August 23	Webinar: How to Control Costly Physician Preference Items	Review how to capture all supplies outside the “official” MMIS to gain visibility and control of costly Physician Preference Items (PPIs).
October 7-13	National Healthcare Resource & Materials Management Week	Appreciation week celebrates materials management professionals for their contributions to the healthcare supply chain field.
October 10	Webinar: Creating a Rewarding Supplier Diversity Program	Discover criteria necessary for implementing a successful supplier diversity program.
October 25	Webinar: Harnessing Data Normalization to Drive Product Savings	Learn the methods used to conduct data normalization.
December 6	Webinar: Using Attribution to Drive Product Rationalization and Savings	Understand how aligning product attributes can support a product rationalization program and lower costs.

2013	Program/Event	Overview
February 14	Webinar: Detecting Product Equivalency to Drive Lower Physician Preference Items	Learn how technology can support improved product functional equivalency decisions to drive savings.
July 28-31	AHRMM's 51st Annual Conference & Exhibition	San Diego, California
October 6-12	National Healthcare Resource & Materials Management Week	Appreciation week celebrates materials management professionals for their contributions to the healthcare supply chain field.