Bio

Rob Handfield serves as the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at NC State University. He also acts as Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. In addition, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Logistics online journal. He also works as Consulting Editor for the Journal of Operations Management, a leading journal in supply chain research. Moreover, he has authored several books, including FLOW (2022) and Supply Chain Immunity (2023). His earlier works include The LIVING Supply Chain (2017) and Introduction to Supply Chain Management (1999). That foundational book sold over 25,000 copies and was translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Area(s) of Expertise

Currently, Handfield researches ways to restructure public health response systems. This work builds on his pro bono service with the Joint Acquisition Task Force during COVID-19. Furthermore, he has secured over $10 million in external research funding. For example, the USDA awarded $200,000 for bio-based product forecasting. Additionally, the Templeton World Charity Foundation awarded $1.2 million to create an Ethical Apparel Index. He also received a $500,000 grant to explore serious gaming in supply chain resilience. Finally, the National Science Foundation has supported several of his supply chain management studies.

Publications

• Improving the prediction of annual average daily traffic for nonfreeway facilities by applying a spatial statistical method , Transportation Research Record (2006)
• Electrical transport in ZnO(1-delta)films: Transition from band-gap insulator to Anderson localized insulator (vol 96, pg 3827, 2004) , Journal of Applied Physics (2005)
• Electrical transport in ZnO1−δ films: Transition from band-gap insulator to Anderson localized insulator , Journal of Applied Physics (2004)
• Micro-Raman study of electronic properties of inversion domains in GaN-based lateral polarity heterostructures , Journal of Applied Physics (2003)
• Photoelectron emission microscopy observation of inversion domain boundaries of GaN-based lateral polarity heterostructures , Journal of Applied Physics (2003)
• Wavelength-dependent Raman scattering of hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbon with red, green, and blue light excitation , Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources (2003)
• Epitaxial growth of ZnO films on Si(111) , Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources (2002)
• X-ray and Raman analyses of GaN produced by ultrahigh-rate magnetron sputter epitaxy , Applied Physics Letters (2002)
• Optical characterization of wide band gap amorphous semiconductors (a-Si:C:H): Effect of hydrogen dilution , Journal of Applied Physics (2001)
• Ultrathin DLC and SiOx layer deposition on poly(ethylene terephthalate) and restriction of surface dynamics , Journal of Applied Polymer Science (2000)