Production and Operations Management Society

What Production and Operations Management Society does

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international nonprofit professional society founded on June 30, 1989, by Kalyan Singhal in collaboration with approximately 300 professors and executives, and headquartered at Temple University's Fox School of Business. It serves as a global platform integrating knowledge across the Production and Operations Management (POM) discipline, targeting academics, researchers, students, and practitioners worldwide. Its core offerings include the flagship Production and Operations Management journal (published 12 times annually in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell since 2009), the POMS Chronicle newsletter, annual and international conferences, nine specialized subject-matter colleges, regional chapters in Beijing, India, and Latin America & Caribbean, and a portfolio of 30+ named awards recognizing research, teaching, and practice excellence.

The society's core technology is non-existent in the traditional product sense — it is a knowledge-dissemination organization that operates a website, mobile conference apps, social media channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, YouTube, SoundCloud), and partners with Wiley-Blackwell for journal distribution. Revenue is generated through four streams: recurring membership dues, institutional journal subscriptions (managed via Wiley-Blackwell), conference registration fees, and publications/awards programs. Its flagship POM Journal carries strong reputational assets, ranked in Business Week's Top 20, UT Dallas Top 24, Financial Times Top 50, and A* in ABDC rankings.

POMS is governed by a volunteer officer structure (President, President-elect, multiple Vice Presidents across functional areas, Regional Vice Presidents across four global regions, and Board Members), with day-to-day operations run by an Executive Director and small coordinator staff housed at Temple University. The society's strategic direction in 2026 includes the launch of OAPEX (College of Operations in AI, Platforms, and Exponential Technologies) and an international conference rotation spanning Stockholm, Xi'an, Reno, Orlando, and Dallas through 2028.

Name

Production and Operations Management Society

Legal name

Production and Operations Management Society

Website

https://poms.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international nonprofit professional society founded in 1989 that serves POM academics, researchers, students, and practitioners worldwide through a flagship journal, annual conferences, specialized colleges, regional chapters, and awards programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees from POM professionals, academics, and students worldwide
2. Journal Subscriptions: Institutional subscription fees for the Production and Operations Management journal, managed in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell since 2009
3. Conference Fees: Registration fees for annual conferences and international conferences
4. Publications and Awards: Revenue from awards programs and related publications

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

POMS is an international professional academic society that advances production and operations management (POM) scholarship and practice. It sells individual and institutional memberships, publishes the peer-reviewed POM Journal in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, hosts annual and international conferences, organizes 9 specialized colleges covering sub-disciplines (supply chain, healthcare OM, behavioral OM, sustainability, etc.), and operates regional chapters in Beijing, India, and Latin America.

Product overview

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international professional organization that operates as a unified membership society rather than a commercial product company. Its core offerings include the flagship POM Journal (published 12x yearly via Wiley-Blackwell), the POMS Chronicle newsletter, annual and international conferences, nine specialized colleges covering POM sub-disciplines, regional chapters (Beijing, India, Latin America), awards programs recognizing research excellence, POMS Practice initiatives connecting academics with practitioners, and POM Jobs for career opportunities. These offerings are integrated through a membership-based structure to serve POM professionals worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Production and Operations Management (POM) Journal: The flagship journal of POMS, published in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, covering scientific research into product and process design, operations, and supply chain management.
• POMS Chronicle

Products and services

• POMS Membership Annual membership program for individuals (regular, student, retired, life tiers) and institutions (university, corporate) that confers access to POMS programs, colleges, chapters, journals, and conference discounts.
• Production and Operations Management (POM) Journal Peer-reviewed academic journal covering production and operations management research, co-published with Wiley-Blackwell for individual and institutional subscribers globally.
• POMS Annual Conference Flagship annual international academic conference bringing together POM scholars, PhD students, and practitioners for paper presentations, networking, and college meetings.
• POMS International Conferences Regional and specialized international conferences held in addition to the annual conference to serve the global POM community.
• POMS Awards Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Journal appears in Business Week top 20, UT Dallas top 24, Financial Times top 50, A* level ABDC ranking
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Wiley-BlackwellcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership established in 2009 for marketing and distribution of the Production and Operations Management journal. Wiley-Blackwell manages fulfillment for all institutional subscriptions and the subscription renewal process including payment receipt.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Academy of Management: AOM is the leading professional association for management scholars, with overlapping academic membership, peer-reviewed journals (AMJ, AMR, AME), and an annual meeting that competes for the same POM researcher audience.
• INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences is the largest professional society for OR/MS, overlapping directly with POMS on operations management research, publications (Management Science, Operations Research), and conference programming for a similar academic member base.
• ASCM (formerly APICS): Association for Supply Chain Management is a direct competitor in supply chain and operations management credentials, certification, conferences, and publications, serving a practitioner-academic crossover audience that overlaps significantly with POMS's supply chain college.
• Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE): IISE represents industrial and systems engineers with overlapping operations research, conferences, and journals (IISE Transactions), competing for both academic and practitioner members engaged in production and operations management.
• Decision Sciences Institute: DSI publishes Decision Sciences Journal and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, hosting an annual meeting that competes for the same operations management and decision sciences academic audience POMS serves.

Others

• Association for Information Systems (AIS): AIS is the premier professional association for information systems research with conferences (ICIS, AMCIS) and journals (MIS Quarterly). It is adjacent rather than directly competitive but shares the same academic community and emerging interest in digital operations that motivated POMS's OAPEX launch.

Emerging players

• International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT): IAMOT focuses on the management of technology and innovation, overlapping with POMS's Product Innovation and Technology Management college and Disruptive Technologies paper award, sharing a portion of the academic audience.
• Society for Advancement of Management (SAM): SAM is an international general-management professional society publishing the SAM Advanced Management Journal and offering conferences and awards that overlap with POMS's practitioner-engagement function at the operations management interface.
• Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) Society: M&SOM is an INFORMS-sponsored journal and community within manufacturing and service operations, representing a more focused subset of the POM space that POMS addresses via its Service Operations and Manufacturing Operations paper awards.

Regional players

• European Operations Management Association (EurOMA): EurOMA is the leading European operations management academic association with annual conferences and a journal (International Journal of Operations & Production Management), competing with POMS International Conferences for European member engagement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PomsSociety
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCUb-OzPzeG9BkfnuZYgzgBw
• Facebookfacebook.com/POMSSociety
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pomsociety

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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