Rob Handfield
Business Management
- Phone: 919.515.4674
- Email: rbhandfi@ncsu.edu
- Office: 2806 Hillsborough St-Bldg A 217
- Website: https://scm.ncsu.edu/scm-articles/article/category/directors-blog
Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scm.ncsu.edu/). Handfield is considered a thought leader in the field of supply chain management and has extensive knowledge in the fields of sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supply chain resilience. Handfield has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and is regularly quoted in global news media such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Washington Post, the Financial Times, Fox Business News, and CNN. He served on the Joint Acquisition Task Force during COVID, which led to published articles on the shortages of PPE in the Harvard Business Review and the Milbank Quarterly Journal and led a NIIMBL research team studying the distribution of test kits during the pandemic. He was also invited to serve on the Biden White House Counsel of Economic Advisors in January 2022 and has worked with many companies through the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative for several years.
Research Interests
- Supply Chain Management
- COVID-19 Supply Chain
- Vaccine Supply Chain
- Global Sourcing
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Management | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1990 |
| B.S.Stat. | Bachelor of Science, Statistics | The University of British Columbia | 1985 |
| BSAM | Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics | The University of British Columbia | 1985 |
Discover more about Rob Handfield
- Rob Handfield Explains Why Car Shortage May Continue for Years (August 27, 2021)
- Rob Handfield Warns that Vaccine Waste Can Be Used in Counterfeit Efforts (March 25, 2021)
- Rob Handfield: Texas Freeze Exposes Problems with Global Plastic Supply Chain (March 17, 2021)
- Rob Handfield Explains Rubber Shortage Slowing Vaccine Distribution (March 17, 2021)
- Rob Handfield Finds Lack of Coordination in National Vaccine Distribution (Feb.18, 2021)
- Rob Handfield Explains State Challenges with Vaccine Distribution (Feb. 18, 2021)
- Rob Handfield New Project to Develop Ethical Apparel Index (Feb. 12, 2021)
- Rob Handfield’s Vaccination Distribution Plan is to Work Backward from the Patient (Feb. 5, 2021)
- Rob Handfield Sees More Emphasis on Supply than Distribution of the COVID Vaccine (Jan 21, 2021)
- Rob Handfield Discusses Further Concerns with Vaccine Rollout Due to Supply Chain Problems (Jan. 21, 2021)
- Rob Handfield Talks COVID Strain on Healthcare Workers (2021)
- Rob Handfield on the New Players of Protective Gear for WRAL (July 23, 2020)
- Tom Linton About the Physics of Supply Chain and Paths to Become CPO (June 19, 2020)
- Rob Handfield Webinar on Vital Supply Chains in a Pandemic (May 20, 2020)
- Dogs or Ventilators: Where is the Real Shortage? (April 2, 2020)
- Rob Handfield on the Perilous State of Healthcare Supply Chain (April 2, 2020)
- Supply Chain Impacts – Where are All the N95 Masks? (April 1, 2020)
- Rob Handfield Assures Shoppers Grocery Supply Chains Are Strong (March 18, 2020)
- Rob Handfield’s 2020 Supply Chain Predictions (February 5, 2020)
- Rob Handfield, Pierre Mitchell Discuss What’s on the Minds of Today’s CPOs (Dec. 1, 2019)
- How Blockchain Technology Could Reshape Supply Chain Management (October 3, 2019)
- Professor Robert Handfield: Curiosity Drives His Quest for Knowledge; the SCRC Reflects His Commitment to Teaching (February 15, 2018)
- Harnessing the Power of Collaboration to Impact the Global Supply Chain (Summer 2018)
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
