Professor ManMohan Sodhi elected new POMS Fellow

The Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) has elected Professor ManMohan Sodhi FIMA, FORS, FPOMS,  Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), to be among this year’s cohort of new Fellows.

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international professional organisation representing the interests of POM professionals from around the world. The society aims to:

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

Election as a POMS Fellow is the most prestigious honour awarded by the society and is given for life. It recognises POMS members who have made exceptional intellectual contributions to the profession and the society through their research and teaching.

Professor Sodhi is one of very few POMS Fellows outside the United States to receive this prestigious fellowship in recognition of his publications, including in the POMS journal, and service to the society. He recently published on how to reduce microaggressions and other negative racial experiences in the workplace, and on exploiting synergies among the UN Sustainability Development Goals.

Professor Sodhi said:

“I am truly humbled to be inducted as a lifelong Fellow of the Production and Operations Society, given the amazing profiles of the operations and supply chain luminaries who are the existing Fellows. In the coming years, I hope to meet their expectations with my research and service to the global operations management scholar and practitioner community through POMS.

“I thank Bayes and City for a research environment where I could produce research in top-tier journals and still have time to engage with scholars of international repute and practitioners in operations and supply chain management.”

Professor Amit Nigam, Head of the Faculty of Management at Bayes, commented:

“Mohan is a highly influential operations management scholar whose work has both advanced his field and generated knowledge that has been of great use to diverse industries. This honour, which places him at the pinnacle of his research field, is just recognition for a career of impressive work.”