Rob Handfield

Business Management

Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University and director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scrc.ncsu.edu). He also serves as an adjunct professor with the Supply Chain Management Research Group at the Manchester Business School.

Handfield is the consulting editor of the Journal of Operations Management, one of the leading supply chain management journals in the field, and is the author of several books on supply chain management, the most recent being Supply Market Intelligence, Supply Chain Re-Design and Introduction to Supply Chain Management (Prentice Hall, 1999, 25,000 copies sold, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).  He has co-authored textbooks for MBA and undergraduate classes including Purchasing and Supply Chain Management 3rd revision (with Robert Monczka) and Operations and Supply Chain Management (with Cecil Bozarth).  Handfield was identified as one of a handful of individuals in the 2007 “Pros to Know” list compiled by Supply and Demand Chain Executive journal :(http://www.sdcexec.com/publication/article.jsp?pubId=1&id=9287).  He is regularly quoted in periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Inc. Supply Chain Management Review, and other periodicals.

Handfield has consulted with over 25 Fortune 500 companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, Freightliner, Boston Scientific, Delphi, Chevron, British Petroleum, Nortel Networks, Chevron Phillips, Lyondell Chemical, Conoco Phillips, Federal Express, Milliken, and others.  He has published more than 100 articles in top management journals including California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Operations Management, and Decision Sciences.

Dr. Handfield’s research with a number of leading SCM organizations across a variety of industries has identified that companies who excel in the consistent application of “best-in-class” supply management processes and practices and becoming a customer of choice have demonstrated significantly higher financial performance than their competitors.  This performance of best-in-class organizations has not gone unnoticed by market analysts and has been amply rewarded by significant improvements in stock performance.

Handfield is considered a thought leader in the field of supply chain management and is an industry expert in the field of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development.  He has spoken on these subjects across the globe, including in China, Turkey, Latin America, Europe, Japan, Canada, and other locals.

 

Research Interests

  • Supply Chain Management
  • COVID-19 Supply Chain
  • Vaccine Supply Chain
  • Global Sourcing

 

Education

DegreeProgramSchoolYear
Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy in Operations ManagementUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1990
B.S.Stat.Bachelor of Science, StatisticsThe University of British Columbia1985
BSAMBachelor of Science, Applied MathematicsThe University of British Columbia1985

 

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Publications

Improving the prediction of annual average daily traffic for nonfreeway facilities by applying a spatial statistical method
Eom, J. K., Park, M. S., Heo, T. Y., & Huntsinger, L. F. (2006), In Transportation Research Record (pp. 20–29).
Electrical transport in ZnO(1-delta)films: Transition from band-gap insulator to Anderson localized insulator (vol 96, pg 3827, 2004)
Tiwari, A., Jin, C., Narayan, J., & Park, M. (2005), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 97.
Electrical transport in ZnO1-delta films: Transition from band-gap insulator to Anderson localized insulator
Tiwari, A., Jin, C., Narayan, J., & Park, M. (2004), JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 96(7), 3827–3830. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1783591
Micro-Raman study of electronic properties of inversion domains in GaN-based lateral polarity heterostructures
Park, M., Cuomo, J. J., Rodriguez, B. J., Yang, W. C., Nemanich, R. J., & Ambacher, O. (2003), JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 93(12), 9542–9547. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1570507
Photoelectron emission microscopy observation of inversion domain boundaries of GaN-based lateral polarity heterostructures
Yang, W. C., Rodriguez, B. J., Park, M., Nemanich, R. J., Ambacher, O., & Cimalla, V. (2003), Journal of Applied Physics, 94(9), 5720–5725. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1618355
Wavelength-dependent Raman scattering of hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbon with red, green, and blue light excitation
Park, M., Sakhrani, V., Maria, J. P., Cuomo, J. J., Teng, C. W., Muth, J. F., … Nemanich, R. J. (2003), JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH, 18(4), 768–771. https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0106
Epitaxial growth of ZnO films on si(111)
Tiwari, A., Park, M., Jin, C., Wang, H., Kumar, D., & Narayan, J. (2002), JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH, 17(10), 2480–2483. https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2002.0361
X-ray and Raman analyses of GaN produced by ultrahigh-rate magnetron sputter epitaxy
Park, M., Maria, J. P., Cuomo, J. J., Chang, Y. C., Muth, J. F., Kolbas, R. M., … Bumgarner, J. (2002), APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 81(10), 1797–1799. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1506781
Optical characterization of wide band gap amorphous semiconductors (a-Si : C : H): Effect of hydrogen dilution
Park, M., Teng, C. W., Sakhrani, V., McLaurin, M. B., Kolbas, R. M., Sanwald, R. C., … Cuomo, J. J. (2001), JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 89(2), 1130–1137. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1332421
Ultrathin DLC and SiOx layer deposition on poly(ethylene terephthalate) and restriction of surface dynamics
Hyun, J., Pope, M., Smith, J., Park, M., & Cuomo, J. J. (2000), Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 75(9), 1158–1164. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4628(20000228)75:93.3.CO;2-C

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Rob Handfield