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Sponsors

Many thanks to the Sponsors, Exhibitors, and Advertisers who help make POMS-2007 possible!

Platinum Sponsor	Silver Sponsor
Silver Sponsor	Bronze Sponsor

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Conference Registration

All registration for the conference will be done on-line through the POMS website. The website will be available for registration beginning January 22, 2007 and close on April 10, 2007. The registration fees are as follows:

• Members: $375 by February 15, $425 between February 16 and March 7, $475 between March 8 and April 10. The on-site registration fee is $525.
  
• Non-Members: $400 by February 15, $450 between February 16 and March 7, $500 between March 8 and April 10. The on site registration fee is $550.
  
• Students and Retirees: $105 by February 15, $125 between February 16 and March 7, $145 between March 8 and April 10. The on site registration fee is $160.

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Conference Venue

The Conference will be held at the Fairmont Hotel Dallas, 1717 North Akard Street, Dallas, Texas 75201, USA (Phone: 214-720-2020). The Fairmont, located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, should prove to be an excellent location for our meeting. Early May promises great Texas weather, and easy access through the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport from anywhere in the world. The room rate for single or double occupancy is $184 per night plus taxes (an extra person can stay in the room for an additional $30). Suites are available for $284.00.

The Fairmont Hotel is a 550 room hotel, and we've reserved substantially more hotel rooms than last year for our members. Note that the hotel plans to remodel all of their sleeping rooms before our arrival, so we will have great accommodations for your stay. If you want an early start on hotel reservations, please go to the Fairmont website and use the group code GRCIC1 (the box for the Group Code will appear after you enter your arrival and departure dates). These rates are discounted from the normal internet rates for this time period by about $25 per night, so be sure to use our Group Code. If you do not enter the group code, regular Internet rates will be used for your reservation.

We recommend that you join the Fairmont's "President Club" before making reservations. From their website: "Membership is complimentary and your Fairmont President's Club experience begins the moment you arrive at any of our properties with express check-in and continues during your stay with complimentary, high-speed Internet access, free local calls, 500 airline miles per stay on qualifying rates, complimentary daily newspaper, and more."

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Plenary

Video of the May 6, 2007 plenary speech in honor of William W. Cooper, Charles C. Holt, and Gerald E. Thompson. Speakers include Paul Kleindorfer, Hau Lee, Suresh Sethi, and Marty Starr.

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Contributed Papers

Papers are invited on all topics related to teaching, research, and practice of OM. Current tracks and track chairs include, but are not limited to, the following:

Disaster Management	Sushil Gupta Florida International University poms@fiu.edu   and   Martin K. Starr Rollins College mstarr@cfl.rr.com
Education	Rohit Verma Cornell University Ithaca rv54@cornell.edu
Empirical and Economic Research in OM	Vishal Gaur New York University vgaur@stern.nyu.edu   and   Taylor Randall University of Utah acttr@business.utah.edu
Environmental Issues and Reverse Logistics in Production/Manufacturing	Surendra Gupta Northeastern University gupta@neu.edu   and   Vaidy Jayaraman University of Miami vaidy@miami.edu
Games and Economic Models in OM	Mahesh Nagarajan University of British Columbia, Canada Mahesh.Nagarajan@SAUDER.UBC.CA   and   Haresh Gurnani University of Miami haresh@miami.edu
Healthcare Operations	Craig Froehle University of Cincinnati craig.froehle@uc.edu
Human Resource Issues in OM	Martin K. Starr Rollins College mstarr@CFL.rr.com   and   Hesan A. Quazi Nanyang Technological University, Singapore AHAQUAZI@ntu.edu.sg
Humanitarian Logistics	Luk N. Van Wassenhove INSEAD, France Luk.VAN-WASSENHOVE@insead.edu
International/Global Operations	Vidyaranya B. Gargeya University of North Carolina - Greensboro vbgargey@uncg.edu
Inventory Management	Don Warsing North Carolina State University don_warsing@ncsu.edu
JIT & Lean Production	Yoshiki Matsui Yokohama National University, Japan ymatsui@ynu.ac.jp   and   Rachna Shah University of Minnesota RShah@csom.umn.edu
Managing Disruptions in Supply Chains	Kathryn E. Stecke University of Texas at Dallas kstecke@utdallas.edu   and   Tom Schmitt University of Washington Seattle glennsch@u.washington.edu   and   Sanjay Kumar University of Texas at Dallas skumar@utdallas.edu
Marketing-Operations Interface	Tamer Boyaci McGill University, Canada tamer.boyaci@mcgill.ca   and   Saibal Ray McGill University, Canada saibal.ray@mcgill.ca
Mass Customization	Cipriano Forza University of Padova, Italy cipriano.forza@unipd.it   and   Manus Rungtusanatham University of Minnesota j.rungtusanatham@csom.umn.edu   and   Fabrizio Salvador Instituto de Empersa Business School Fabrizio.Salvador@ie.edu
Operational Advantage Group (OAG)	Rafael Menda McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals rmenda@gmail.com
Operations-IT Interface	Indranil Bardhan University of Texas at Dallas bardhan@utdallas.edu
Operations Strategy	Amelia Carr Bowling Green State University ascarr@cba.bgsu.edu
Optimization Models for Operations	Joseph P. Geunes University of Florida geunes@ise.ufl.edu
Product Innovation and Technology Management	Michael Lapre Vanderbilt University Michael.Lapre@owen.vanderbilt.edu
Production and Inventory Models	Metin Cakanyildirim University of Texas at Dallas Metin@utdallas.edu
Project Management	Daniel Heiser DePaul University dheiser@depaul.edu
Purchasing and Sourcing Management	Srinivas Talluri Michigan State University talluri@bus.msu.edu
Quality Management	Hale Kaynak The University of Texas Pan-American HKaynak@panam.edu
Service Operations	Jun Zhang University of Texas at Dallas jxz063000@utdallas.edu   and   Huimin Wang Hohai University, China huiminwang63@hotmail.com
Strategic Sourcing Issues	WC Benton Ohio State University Benton.1@osu.edu
Supply Chain Management	Rajesh Srivastava Florida Gulf Coast University rsrivast@fgcu.edu   and   James F. O'Kane Northumbria University, UK james.okane@unn.ac.uk
Sustainable Operations & Closed-Loop Supply Chains	Mark E Ferguson Georgia Institute of Technology Mark.Ferguson@MGT.GATECH.EDU   and   V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr. Pennsylvania State University drg16@psu.edu
The Role of Technologies in Global Supply Chains	Pedro Reyes Baylor University pedro_reyes@baylor.edu
Transportation and Logistics	Svein Brathen Molde University College, Norway Svein.Brathen@hiMolde.no

If you are interested in organizing a track not currently listed, please contact the Program Chair at Yunzeng.wang@utdallas.edu by November 30, 2006.

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Invited Sessions

If you would like to organize an invited session, please contact the appropriate Track Chair (listed above) or the Program Chair at Yunzeng.wang@utdallas.edu by December 15, 2006.

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Abstract Submission

The deadline for submissions of abstracts is January 20, 2007. Abstracts should be limited to 150 words. A registered author may not be allowed to present more than three papers due to scheduling conflicts. Acceptance of abstracts will be notified through e-mail by the end of January, 2007. If you need a hard copy of the acceptance letter for traveling visa and other purposes, please contact Sophia G. Orme at sgo041000@utdallas.edu.

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Submission of Full-Length Papers

1. Format the paper as follows: Font Size 12, Times New Roman, Line Spacing - double (there is no page limit). Include all tables and figures in one document (the submission system accepts only one document per abstract). The first page should include the following:
    First Line: Abstract Number
    Second Line: Abstract Title
    Authors’ information (Name, Organization, address, e-mail, phone)
    POMS 18th Annual Conference
    Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
    May 4 to May 7, 2007

2. Save/convert the paper into PDF format.

3. Click Full Length Paper Submission.

4. The program will prompt you to enter the abstract number and the e-mail of the author for correspondence. Complete remaining fields.

5. Submit the PDF generated in step 2 by the March 7, 2007 deadline.

Please note that the full length paper is not mandatory to participate in the conference. All full-length papers will be included in the CD-proceedings.

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Tutorials/Workshops

Tutorial and workshop proposals are encouraged. Please contact the Program Chair at Yunzeng.wang@utdallas.edu by December 15, 2006 if you have an interest.

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Doctoral Student Consortium

The Doctoral Student Consortium aims to provide an excellent opportunity for career development and networking with fellow doctoral students and prominent academicians. The theme of the consortium will be Transitioning from Doctoral Student to Professor. This half-day session will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2006, 8:00 AM to noon. Professor Tim Lowe from the University of Iowa will be leading the session.

The program will be limited to 30 participants. To participate, please send a short email expressing your interest as well as your resume to Professor Tim Lowe at timothy-lowe@uiowa.edu. Please do so by January 31, 2007.

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4th Annual Program for Emerging Scholars of POM

Application deadline extended to February 16, 2007

Untenured university faculty holding teaching positions in the field of Production and Operations Management are invited to apply for participation in the special "Emerging Scholars Program" session of the POM 2007 Conference in Dallas, TX. The half-day program will be held the morning of May 07, 2007, the last day of the conference. In order to foster the development of new professionals pursuing academic careers in OM, the Production and Operations Management Society is sponsoring this special session of the conference.

The program's goal is to provide new academic professionals in OM with career-building advice in developing excellence in their personal programs of teaching, research, and service. The program is highly interactive and will feature internationally recognized senior OM scholars as discussion leaders.

The program will be limited to 18 participants. Priority will be given to first time faculty attendees who have registered for the conference. If you are interested in participating, please do the following:
• Register for the POMS-2007 conference
• Send a short email describing your interest along with a copy of your current curriculum vitae on or before February 16, 2007 to kanet@udayton.edu with copy to stoessma@notes.udayton.edu.

Program Organizers:
Jack Kanet, University of Dayton, co-chair
Michael F. Gorman, University of Dayton, co-chair
Martin Stößlein, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, co-chair

Read about the completed 2007 Emerging Scholars program (Word)

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Wickham Skinner Awards

POMS will continue to offer the Wickham Skinner Awards to recognize excellence in contributions to the POM field. Details of the awards are available in the offical announcement (Word).

Winners of the Wickham Skinner Awards were as follows:
Early Career Award (Co-Winners): Justin Ren (Boston University) and Rachna Shah (University of Minnesota)

Teaching Innovation Award: Andy A. Tsay (Santa Clara University)

Best Unpublished Research: "Efficient Take Back Legislation" by Atalay Atasu, Miklos Sarvary, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove (INSEAD)

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CIBER International Case Writing Award

Indiana University CIBER is pleased to announce the eighth CIBER International Case Writing Award in the amount of $2500. For additional information, contact Roger Schmenner at rschmenn@iupui.edu.

Winner of the 2007 CIBER International Case Writing Award was "Streamlining the Global Logistics Service Processes at Nanjing Wangjiawan Logistics Center (WLC)" by Amy Zeng (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Jing Hou and Lindu Zhao (Institute of Systems Engineering of Southeast University)

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Martin K. Starr Excellence in POM Practice (E-POMP) Award

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has instituted the Martin K. Starr Excellence in POM Practice (E-POMP) Award to recognize contributions made to the field of Production and Operations Management (POM) by POM practitioners. Details of the award are available on the POMS website. For additional information contact Sushil Gupta at poms@fiu.edu.

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POM-2007 Conference Committee

General Chair Kathryn E. Stecke UT Dallas kstecke@utdallas.edu		Program Chair Yunzeng Wang UT Dallas Yunzeng.wang@utdallas.edu
International Committee Chair Sushil Gupta Florida International University poms@fiu.edu		Emerging Scholars Program John (Jack) Kanet University of Dayton kanet@udayton.edu
Doctoral Consortium Tim Lowe University of Iowa Timothy-lowe@uiowa.edu		Conference Advisor Barbara Flynn Indiana University bbflynn@iupui.edu
Sponsorship Coordinator Nagesh N. Murthy University of Oregon nmurthy@lcbmail.uoregon.edu		Local Events Coordinator Metin Cakanyildirim UT Dallas metin@utdallas.edu
Vice President Meetings Timothy L. Smunt Wake Forest University Tim.Smunt@mba.wfu.edu		Program Editor and Proceedings Editor (on CD) Sushil Gupta Florida International University poms@fiu.edu