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.

President: Marshall Fisher, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
President-Elect: Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

Past Presidents
   Jatinder (Jeet) Gupta, College of Administrative Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA.
   Cheryl Gaimon, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
   Wally Hopp, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Vice-President, Finance:, Beril Toktay, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, U.S.A.
Vice-President, Education: Manoj Malhotra, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
Vice-President, Meetings: Jim Gilbert, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA
Vice-President, Member Activities: Janice Carrillo, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Vice-President, Publications: Amiya Chakravarty, College of Business Administration, North Eastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Vice-President, Industry: Rafael Menda, Mcneil Consumer Healthcare, Fort Washington, PA, USA
Vice President-Colleges: Uday Apte, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA, USA.
Vice-President Communications: Christian Terwiesch, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Secretary: Richard Metters, Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A.
Regional Vice President, Americas: Afonso Fleury , University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Regional Vice President-Europe: Jose A. D. Machuca, Facultad Ciencias Economicas y Empressri, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
Regional Vice President-Africa and Middle East: Norman Faull, Graduate Sch. of Business, Univ. of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Regional Vice-President, Asia-Pacific: Jian Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Board Members
   Kasra Ferdows, Georgetown University, Washington, D, C., U.S.A.
   Robert Klassen, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
   Rachna Shah, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
   Chris Voss, London Business School, London, U.K.
   Peter Ward, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

President EurOMA: Ann Vereecke, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Founder & Editor-In-Chief, POM: Kalyan Singhal, Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
Chair, Council of POMS Presidents: Martin Starr, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College Winter Park, FL, USA
Executive Director: Sushil Gupta, College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Associate Executive Director: Chelliah Sriskandarajah, School of Management, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.

POMS, in its efforts to globalize POM profession, is reaching out to other professional organizations that share similar goals and objectives. Following the POMS Board meeting in Chicago (2005), POMS and EurOMA explored the possibility of expanding cooperation between the two societies and agreed on the following:

Joint membership: Starting in 2006 each society offered the option of joining the other one at a reduced fee.

Web information and links exchange: The two Societies also agreed to list conferences and other public activities of both societies on the website of each society with appropriate links.

Details of EurOMA can be found at http://www.euroma-online.org

As of July 10, 2008, all POMS.org website change requests should be e-mailed to the webpage editor, Kuashik Dutta, at kaushik.dutta@fiu.edu.