About POMS

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international professional organization representing the interests of POM professionals from around the world. The purposes of the Society are:

• to extend and integrate knowledge that contributes to the improved understanding and practice of production and operations management (POM);
  
• to disseminate information on POM to managers, scientists, educators, students, public and private organizations, national and local governments, and the general public; and
  
• to promote the improvement of POM and its teaching in public and private manufacturing and service organizations throughout the world
  

Kalyan Singhal, in collaboration with about three hundred professors and executives, founded POMS on June 30, 1989. The society held its first international meeting in Washington, D.C. in October, 1990. The inaugural issue of its journal, Production and Operations Management, was published in March, 1992.

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has become the "Gateway to the POM World". The long term goal and vision for POMS is that it should become the "home" organization for all POM professionals and be recognized as such by other professional organizations, accreditation bodies, university administrators, business and industry leaders, and our own colleagues in business schools. POMS must become the repository of fundamental POM information and the most authoritative source of developments in the POM field.

To achieve this goal, POMS facilitates communication among professors and POM professionals from all over the globe. POMS provides the following multi-dimensional links which create a "virtual department" and provide avenues for sharing ideas that impact teaching, research and practice.

• electronic links which include the POMS website (www.poms.org) and e-mail to and from the POMS home office (poms@fiu.edu)

• the printed word which includes Production and Operations Management, an increasingly influential quarterly journal solely devoted to the POM field, and POMS Chronicle, the society's newsletter

• face-to-face contact at POMS-sponsored conferences both in the United States and in other countries with an opportunity to network with members of POM community from all over the world.

The Society's approach to Production and Operations Management is problem-centered; it does not rely on particular methodologies. We are dedicated to uncovering and understanding the canon of knowledge in POM and we encourage reviews and reinterpretations of past research and the provocative idea that initiates new research. Pedagogy remains a core interest of the Society; conference sessions, the website, and various bulletins are evidence of this interest.

The tangible benefits of the Society include:

• Receipt of the Production and Operations Management journal.

• Discounted registration fee at the POMS annual conference.

• Periodic receipt of Job Bulletin, Research Bulletin, and other e- mail announcements.

• Receipt of the POMS Chronicle newsletter.

• Continuing access to the portions of the POMS website that will be locked in the future:
  
  • Pedagogy area -- links to course websites and syllabi at many schools; links to case collections and international groups; clearinghouse for sabbaticals and leaves around the world

  • Membership area -- find and phone or e-mail other members easily

Become a new member via the Members area, or write the POMS Home Office at the address here.

President
Jatinder (Jeet) Gupta
College of Administrative Science
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899, USA

President-Elect
Cheryl Gaimon
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30308, USA

Past Presidents
Hau Lee
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Gabriel Bitran
Sloan School of Management
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Kasra Ferdows
The McDonough Schl of Business
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057, USA

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