William McLaury

Associate Professor, Professional Practice Rutgers Business School

Bill was the Executive Director, Pharma Supply Chain with Novartis Pharmaceuticals for over thirty years before retiring in July 2014 and joining the Rutgers Business School (RBS) faculty full time.  While with Novartis, Bill held a number of supply chain management leadership positions with operational responsibility, both locally and globally, including ten years as Regional Head for North America, and two years as Global Head of Pharma Supply Chain Strategy. He also served as the Novartis representative on the Industry Advisory Board for the Center for Supply Chain Management at RBS for fourteen years, and as the Chairman of that Advisory Board for the last five.  

He is the creator of the Rutgers SCM Curriculum for Secondary Schools which has been adopted by the New Jersey Department of Education, and used in individual schools in 6 other states as well.  He is also the author of the textbook, “Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, A Practitioner’s Perspective” which is used both in the Introduction to Supply Chain Management course at RBS as well as for the Rutgers SCM Curriculum for Secondary Schools.

He is a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) where he served as the Education Chair for the NJ Roundtable.  He continues to be a frequent guest speaker at numerous industry and academic events. 

Bill has a Bachelor of Science degree in Supply Chain Management from Bowling Green State University, a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and a Master of Administrative Sciences degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University.