William J. Sawaya
Associate Professor of Business Management
Associate Director MBA Program
Business Management, Department of
Office: W437B TNRB
Phone: (801) 422-2417
Email: sawaya@byu.edu
Office hours: TW 3:30 - 5:00
Expertise:
- Inventory control
- Logistics
- Management: supply-chain
- Manufacturing strategy
- Operations management
- Operations strategy
- Purchasing
- Total quality management
- characteristics of successful manufacturing system implementations
- worker-controlled wage programs
- quality disasters
- effective TQM implementations
- supply chain management
- scm rewards sharing
- PHD, INDUSTRIAL + ENGINEERING SCIEN, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1971
- MS, INDUSTRIAL + ENGINEERING SCIEN, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1969
- BS, ENG SCIENCES & TECH, UNIV OF WYOMING, 1967
- Operations - Primary
- MBA - Secondary
- Interdisciplinary Product Development (IPD) - Tertiary
- "Improving Company Performance Through Operations Management Training for Production Workers," Production and Operations Management 1993 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Ten Guidelines for Implementing Manufacturing Systems," Industrial Management 1992 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Strategies for Production Control," Production and Inventory Management 1992 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Production and Operations Management," 1986 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Automated Manufacturing: Two Cases Where It Failed to Match Its Promise," Exchange 1984 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "A Prehedging Strategy for Feedlot Operation," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics 1981 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "Using An Experimental Approach to Experiential Learning: A Leadership Example," Journal of Experiential Learning and Simulation 1979 V I E W A B S T R A C T
- "The Bond Issue Size Decision Revisited," Financial Management 1979 V I E W A B S T R A C T
Teaching
- Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 1978
- Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming, 1973-1978
- Faculty Associate, Arizona State University, 1969
- American Institute of Industrial Engineers
- Association for Manufacturing Excellence
- American Production and Inventory Control Society
- Operations Management Association
- Member Board of Directors, Rinchem Comany, Inc., 2004
- Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Product Development, DAW Technologies, 1996-1998
- Marriott School Faculty Citizenship Award , Marriott School , 2004
- Faculty of Excellence, Overall , MBA Program , 2001
- Outstanding Teacher , Institute of Business Management , 1995
- Outstanding Colleague , Institute of Business Management , 1989
- Exxon Excellence in Teaching Award , - , 1983
- Outstanding MBA Teacher , Brigham Young University MBA Student Association , 1980
- Outstanding Teaching Award , Alpha Kappa Psi , 1975
- Good Teaching Award , Amoco Foundation , 1975
- MBA Opearations Management
- Operations Management Seminar
- Principles of Supply Chain Management
- Undergraduate Operations Management
