A graduate from the doctoral program in Operations Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Handfield was recently awarded the Henry Latane Distinguished PhD Alumni Award in 2001, recognizing him as one of the most notable doctoral students in history to graduate from the school.

Prior to his appointment at NC State University, Handfield served as an Associate Professor and Faculty Research Associate with the Global Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative in the Eli Broad College of Management at Michigan State University from 1992-1998, working under his mentor, Robert Monczka. During this period, he was ranked in the Top 25 Most Productive SCM/POM Authors in U.S. Business Schools in 1996 in a study published in the Journal of Operations Management.

ACHIEVEMENTS

In 2001, Handfield was elected by leading academics in the field to serve as the Editor of the Journal of Operations Management, (listed as the top 25 most influential academic journals by the Financial Times). Handfield also serves as the Area Editor of Supply Chain Management for Decision Sciences, and writes a column on Supply Chain Management in APICS: The Performance Advantage.

Dr. Handfield had developed key reports in Strategic Alliances, Commodity Strategies, Supplier Integration, Information Systems and Supplier Development. One of his most recognized work was on the Strategic Self-Assessment System that was adopted by Shell and IBM.

Dr. Handfield founded the Supply Chain Resource Consortium in January 2000 with three founding partners (John Deere, Nortel Networks and General Motors). It provides unique customized resources to support the efforts of students, faculties and professionals and to document and disseminate new SCM knowledge created for the advancement of the industry.

Dr. Handfield has also done Executive Education and Consulting to multinational companies such as John Deere, General Motors, Nortel Networks, Mead, FedEx, Reliant Energy, Vitro, Duke Energy and Milliken & Company. See Client References for all company listings.

SUPPLYCHAIN REDESIGN

Supply Chain Redesign, LLC provides clients strategic sourcing alternatives to their supply chain redesign and information systems project requirements. Team’s years of experience in the supply chain, operations, training, information development and execution as well as supply chain knowledge, systems, and services help bring clients the next generation solutions to supply chain issues. SCRD guarantees success and ensure that all projects are managed in an integrated approach done in the most professional methodology. SCRD exceeds client satisfaction by increasing client profits and increasing the value customers place on its products and/or services.

Dr. Robert Handfield and Dr. Dave McCormack initiated the Supply Chain Redesign LLC. It helps clients across a wide range of industries achieve higher levels of performance and long-lasting results. In each case, clients obtained key insights that are helping them to drive their supply chain performance across their organizations.

Executive Education and Consulting

Creating a mature supply chain approach is critical today, when companies are competing in a volatile economic environment and are finding it increasingly difficult to forecast the future performance of their business or marketplace. A mature supply chain operation dynamically integrates demand and supply management, targets customers to boost revenue, and helps to maximize profit and shareholder value. The key enablers of a mature supply chain are lean and flexible operations, end-to-end visibility of supply and demand, collaboration, event-based management and integrated technology. Mature supply chains also enable a company to link order management with planning and forecasting and develop separate operations for customer segmentation. By creating mature supply chain operations, companies are better positioned to tackle changes in the supply chain environment.

The Supply Chain Redesign Process

A diverse menu of product offerings is available to SCRD customers based on needs assessment with company directors. These services are not “off the shelf”, but are provided based on extensive discussions with the primary participants in the organization.
These products are designed to help clients to effectively redesign their supply chains for competitive advantage. We have developed a proprietary process for creating and deploying a redesigned supply chain that is shown below. The SCRD team will not only work with your leadership team to develop a strategic positioning statement for creating a supply chain design, but also enable deployment of the strategy through on-going consulting, education, and toolsets for improvement. We call this process the “Supply Chain Redesign” process, and its associated elements.

Initiating this process occurs through the following stages:

1. Assess the Supply Chain Maturity by using the Supply Chain Maturity Model and Finalize Strategies to Create Tangible and Intangible Benefits
2. Conduct Cost / Benefit Analysis
3. Develop Accelerated Strategies to Generate Benefits
4. Cascade Supply Chain Organization & Initiate the Transformation Process Through Education
5. Supply and Demand Market Intelligence Toolsets for Improvement