Robert Handfield, Supply Chain Resource Cooperative

21/12/2017 17 min

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Robert 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. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor with the Supply Chain Management Research Group at the Manchester Business School.

Robert is the consulting editor of the Journal of Operations Management, one of the leading journals in the field. He is the author of several books on supply chain management, the most recent being The Living Supply Chain: The Evolving Imperative of Operating in Real Time published earlier this year, as well as Supply Market Intelligence, Supply Chain Re-Design and Introduction to Supply Chain Management, which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

He has also co-authored textbooks for MBA and undergraduate classes including a 3rd revision of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management. Robert was identified in the ‘Pros to Know’ list compiled by Supply and Demand Chain Executive journal. His expertise builds from consulting work with Flex, Nike, Lenovo, and other Fortune 200 companies.

Robert earned his doctorate in operations management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.