College of Supply Chain Management

The 2009 Mini-Conference of the POMS College of Supply Chain Management will be held at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa in Orlando, immediately following the POMS Annual Meeting. The conference will begin at 3:00 PM on Monday, May 4 and end at 2:30 PM on Tuesday, May 5.

The POMS College of Supply Chain Management Service Award was created to recognize individuals whose distinguished service to the College has helped to advance significantly its goals and objectives.

The College of Supply Chain Management is a special interest group of POMS that seeks to create a community for researchers in supply chain management. The college embraces the full spectrum of research paradigms including modeling, empirical and field-based work and facilitates close interaction between academics and practitioners through focused conferences.

The POMS College of Supply Chain Management held an exciting conference in May 2007 focused on supply chain issues in emerging markets. Check out the conference wiki, which we have updated with more content from the conference, videos, lots of photos, the winning student papers, and more: http://supplychain.wetpaint.com/

Feel free to add comments or post other material. The wiki is available to the entire POMS community as a resource on supply chain issues in emerging markets.

Service Award: The POMS College of Supply Chain Management Service Award recognizes individuals whose distinguished service to the College has helped to advance significantly its goals and objectives. Nominations for the 2009 Award should include a one paragraph statement of why the person (or persons) are deserving of this honor. Nominations can be emailed to Mark Ferguson at mark.ferguson@mgt.gatech.edu and are due by Friday, February 27th.

Conference 2009: The 2009 Mini-Conference of the POMS College of Supply Chain Management will be held at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa in Orlando, mmediately following the POMS Annual Meeting. The conference will begin at 3:00 PM on Monday, May 4 and end at 2:30 PM on Tuesday, May 5.

The mini-conference will continue in its tradition of connecting industry experts and academics to explore emerging issues critical to supply chain practice, teaching, and research. This year's theme is "Managing Supply Chains in Turbulent Times". Our exploration of this topic will include a series of industry panels, examining how recent economic and regulatory changes are (or should be) impacting the way supply chains are managed. The mini-conference will also include a keynote address by Yossi Sheffi, MIT professor and director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.

More details, including registration information, will be posted shortly.

Student Paper Competition: The annual College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition is chaired this year by Saif Benjaafar, University of Minnesota. Submissions are due by Jan. 12, 2009. Full instructions are available here.

All members of POMS will be eligible to join the College of Supply Chain Management. Annual membership fee is $20, and it is collected along with the annual dues of POMS.

President: Ananth Iyer, Purdue
President-elect: Christopher Tang, UCLA
VP-Special Events: Mark Ferguson, Georgia Tech
VP-Annual POMS Conference: Nicole DeHoratius, Zaragoza Logistics Center, University of Portland
Treasurer: Ricardo Ernst, Georgetown
Secretary: Brian Tomlin, Tuck
Online Editor: Paulo Goncalves, University of Miami
Past-Presidents:
Karen Donohue (Minnesota), Jay Swaminathan (UNC), Eric Johnson (Tuck), Ananth Raman (Harvard) and Marshall Fisher (Wharton)