The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international professional society for academics and practitioners with interests in production operations, operations management, and supply chain management. The society was established in 1989 by Kalyan Singhal, of Merrick School of Business at the University of Baltimore, in collaboration with three hundred professionals from the operations management field.
Since 1990, the POMS society has annually held national conferences focused on academic and practitioner research presentations in the operations management discipline. POMS also sponsors conferences held by its Colleges, joint conferences with the European operations management society EUROMA, and international conferences. The society maintains the website www.pomsmeetings.org as a current and historical repository of information about these conferences.
The current President of POMS is Chelliah Siskandarajah, who is the Hugh Roy Cullen Chair in Business Administration Information and Operations Management at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. The President-Elect is Zuojun (Max) Shen from University of California Berkeley. POMS also is guided by Board Members made up of three Past Presidents, several Vice Presidents (e.g., Education, Finance, Meetings, Member Activities, Colleges, Publications, Communications, Industry, Americas, Africa & Middle East, Europe, and Australasia), a Secretary, and several at-large Board Members. POMS is also led by a Director of Strategic Planning, an Executive Director, Associate Directors (Global Outreach, Information Technology Services), a Web Editor, and a Social Media Coordinator.
The mission of POMS is to create, extend, and disseminate knowledge in the field of production and operations management.
POMS activities
Publications
Production and Operations Management (POM) is the flagship journal of the society. POM is a scientific peer-review journal that publishes research from areas covering operations management, supply chain management, and business analytics. The journal is published by Wiley. The editor-in-chief for the journal is Kalyan Singhal. Subodha Kumar is the deputy editor-in-chief. POM is included among several lists of top journals for the Operations Management and Supply Chain Management fields, including by the UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings, the Financial Times list, and other lists. POM is included among the top eight operations management and supply chain management journals used to calculate The SCM Journal List, being considered as a primarily analytically-focused journal.
POMS Chronicle is the official newsletter of the society and is published twice a year.
Conferences
The annual POMS conference is generally held in the early May. The most recent conference (2019 POMS Annual Conference) was held in Washington D.C. It was attended by more than 1900 professionals from around the world. In addition to the Annual conferences, several international conferences are held every year around the world. In 2019, international conferences were held in Brighton (UK), Tianjin University (China), Mumbai (India), and Hong Kong.
Chapters
POMS society has chapters in Beijing, India, Hong Kong, Latin America, Caribbean, and Taiwan.
Awards
POMS recognizes scholars and practitioners from POM field by bestowing awards in various accomplishments. They include:
POMS Fellows Award
Martin K. Starr Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice Award Sushil K. Gupta Distinguished POMS Service Award Paul Kleindorfer Award Wickham Skinner Award Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award Distinguished Lecturer Award
History
The society was established in 1989 by Kalyan Singhal, of Merrick School of Business at the University of Baltimore, in collaboration with three hundred professionals from the operations management field.
Presidents
Presidents of POMS have included: