Robert B Handfield

An integrated supply chain risk mitigation tool – model, analysis and insights

International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management, 12, 1–16.

Developing hybrid machine learning models to assign health score to railcar fleets for optimal decision making

Expert Systems with Applications, 250, 123931.

Exploring Opioid Prescription Patterns and Overdose Rates in South Carolina (2017-2021): Insights into Rising Deaths High-Risk Areas

Sahebi-Fakhrabad, A., Sadeghi, A. H., Kemahlioglu-Ziya, E., & Handfield, R. (2024, May 17).

Exploring Opioid Prescription Patterns and Overdose Rates in South Carolina (2017–2021): Insights into Rising Deaths in High-Risk Areas

Healthcare, 12(13), 1268.

Optimization of testing protocols to screen for COVID-19: a multi-objective model

Health Care Management Science, 27(4), 580–603.

Physical Flows: A Metaphor for Supply Chain Evolution”

Physical Flows: A Metaphor for Supply Chain Evolution.” Management and Business Review, 4(3).

Procurement Confidential: The real story of how buying and selling actually gets done in the corporate world

New York: Wessex.

The Seven Plus One Flavors of Global Supply Chain”

The Seven Plus One Flavors of Global Supply Chain.” Management Business Review, 4(3).

A Mixed-Integer Linear Formulation for a Dynamic Modified Stochastic p-Median Problem in a Competitive Supply Chain Network Design

Logistics, 7(1), 14.

A new acquisition model for the next disaster: Overcoming disaster federalism issues through effective utilization of the Strategic National Stockpile

Public Administration Review, 84(1), 65–85.

A novel multi-phase hierarchical forecasting approach with machine learning in supply chain management

Supply Chain Analytics.

Evaluating State-Level Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) and Pill Mill Effects on Opioid Consumption in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

HEALTHCARE, 11(3).

Grey Wolf Optimizer and Whale Optimization Algorithm for Stochastic Inventory Management of Reusable Products in a Two-Level Supply Chain

IEEE Access, 11, 40278–40297.

In-Hospital Code Status Updates: Trends Over Time and the Impact of COVID-19

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 41(11), 1363–1367.

Taming the Counterfeiting Epidemic

MIT Sloan Management Review.

The Impact of Opioid Prescribing Limits on Drug Usage in South Carolina: A Novel Geospatial and Time Series Data Analysis

HEALTHCARE, 11(8).

The role of generative design and additive manufacturing capabilities in developing human–AI symbiosis: Evidence from multiple case studies

Decision Sciences, 55(4), 325–345.

Transitioning additive manufacturing from rapid prototyping to high‐volume production: A case study of complex final products

Journal of Product Innovation Management, 40(4), 554–576.

Using not-for-profit innovation networks to transition new technologies across the valley of death

Moradlou, H., Roscoe, S., Reefke, H., & Handfield, R. (2023, August 21). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, Vol. 8.

Assessing Adoption Factors for Additive Manufacturing: Insights from Case Studies

Logistics, 6(2), 36.

Certainty Satiation Marketing for Disrupted Supply Chains

California Management Review Insights. https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2022/01/certainty-satiation-marketing-for-disrupted-supply-chains/

Consumer Pressure is Key to Fixing Dire Labor Conditions in the Clothing Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2022/11/consumer-pressure-is-key-to-fixing-dire-labor-conditions-in-the-clothing-supply-chain

Developing supply chain immunity for future pandemic disruptions

Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 12(4), 482–501.

Effects of power use in buyer-supplier relationships: The moderating role of communication

INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 102, 45–57.

Enabling a More Resilient and Shared Supply Chain Strategy for the Nation: Lessons Learned from COVID 19

https://www.businessofgovernment.org/report/supply-chain-strategy-covid-19

Evaluating State-Level Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) and Pill Mill Effects on Opioid Consumption in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Fakhrabad, A. S., Sadeghi, A. H., & Handfield, R. (2022, December 26).

Flow

How Firms can Plan for Risk in a Data Saturated World: The Goals, Decisions, Signals, Data Model”

How Firms can Plan for Risk in a Data Saturated World: The Goals, Decisions, Signals, Data Model.” California Management Review Insights, 64(2). https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2022/10/how-firms-can-plan-for-risk-in-a-data-saturated-world-the-goals-decisions-signals-data-gdsd-model/

Management of Risk Through Strategic Partner Selection

European Decision Science Conference. Presented at the European Decision Science Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

Management of Risk Through Strategic Partner Selection

European Operations Management Association Conference. Presented at the European Operations Management Association Conference, Berlin, Germany.

Redesigning global supply chains during compounding geopolitical disruptions: the role of supply chain logics

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 42(9), 1407–1434.

Social Exchange Theory

In W. Tate, L. Ellram, & L. Bals (Eds.), Handbook of Theories for Purchasing, Supply Chain and Management Research. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Publishing.

Supply Chain Immunity

In Synthesis Lectures on Operations Research and Applications.

The influence of supply chain immunity perceptions on COVID-19 vaccine willingness in supply chain professionals

The International Journal of Logistics Management, 34(1), 84–105.

The role of an open analytics culture and analytics skills in adopting real-time supply chain analytics for higher performance

The International Journal of Logistics Management, 34(6), 1833–1857.

Where Are We Now?

Handfield, R. (2022, January). Inside Supply Management. https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/news-publications/inside-supply-management-magazine/2021--January-february-issue/where-are-we-now/

An Analytical Tool for Constructing and Evaluating Testing Strategic for COVID-19

Kouri, R., Warsing, D., Singh, N., Thomas, B., & Handfield, R. B. (2021, October 5). (Vol. 10). Vol. 10.

Assessing PPE Procurement During Cover-19: A Research Report

[Technical report]. National Association of State Procurement Officers (NASPO).

Blurry vision: Supply chain visibility for personal protective equipment during COVID-19

Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 27(3), 100689.

Covid-19 response of an additive manufacturing cluster in Australia

Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 26(6), 767–784.

Double Blind Peer-Review in Logistics

Handfield, R. (2021, June). LOGISTICS-BASEL, Vol. 5.

Efficient and sustainable closed-loop supply chain network design: A two-stage stochastic formulation with a hybrid solution methodology

Journal of Cleaner Production, 308, 127323.

Establishing Operational Norms for Labor Rights Standards Implementation in Low-Cost Apparel Production

SUSTAINABILITY, 13(21).

Five myths about the supply chain

Handfield, R. (2021, November 24). Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/supply-chain-myths/2021/11/24/f439dbec-4ca1-11ec-b0b0-766bbbe79347_story.html

How Business Leaders Can Prepare for the Next Health Crisis

Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/02/how-business-leaders-can-prepare-for-the-next-health-crisis?ab=hero-main-text.

Purchasing & supply chain management

Purchasing & supply chain management. Boston, MA: Cengage.

The Deming management method and digital partnering in a construction procurement contract

Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 5(3), 170–195.

The role of psychological distance in organizational responses to modern slavery risk in supply chains

Journal of Operations Management, 67(8), 989–1016.

Tuning value chains for better signals in the post-COVID era: vaccine supply chain concerns

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 41(8), 1302–1317.

A Commons for a Supply Chain in the Post‐COVID‐19 Era: The Case for a Reformed Strategic National Stockpile

The Milbank Quarterly, 98(4), 1058–1090.

Addressing Social Issues in Commodity Markets: Using Cost Modeling as an Enabler of Public Policy in the Bangladeshi Apparel Industry

Journal of Supply Chain Management, 56(4), 25–44.

Assessing supply chain risk for apparel production in low cost countries using newsfeed analysis

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 25(6), 803–821.

Corona virus, tariffs, trade wars and supply chain evolutionary design

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 40(10), 1649–1660.

Data Governance, Data Quality, and Artificial Intelligence in the Supply Chain

[4Th Annual Report]. Supply Chain Resource Cooperatives and IBM.

Forecasting model selection using intermediate classification: Application to MonarchFx corporation

Expert Systems with Applications, 151, 113371.

Life-cycle modeling framework for electronic waste recovery and recycling processes

RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING, 161.

Loss rate forecasting framework based on macroeconomic changes: Application to US credit card industry

Expert Systems with Applications, 165, 113954.

Organizational and Temporal Shifts in Procurement Analytics

In The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management (pp. 147–169).

Emerging procurement technology: data analytics and cognitive analytics

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 49(10), 972–1002.

Overcoming blind spots in global sourcing research: Exploiting the cross-sections between supply chain management and international business

Journal of International Management, 26(1), 100709.

Shifts in buyer-seller relationships: A retrospective on Handfield and Bechtel (2002)

INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 83, 194–206.

Sustainable supplier selection and order allocation: A novel multi-objective programming model with a hybrid solution approach

COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, 129, 192–209.

The microfoundations of an operational capability in digital manufacturing

Journal of Operations Management, 65(8), 774–793.

Analytical foundations for development of real-time supply chain capabilities

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH, 57(5), 1571–1589.

Patient-focused network integration in BioPharma: Strategic imperatives for the years ahead

In Patient-Focused Network Integration in BioPharma: Strategic Imperatives for the Years Ahead (pp. 1–173).

The Impact of Raw Materials Price Volatility on Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for Product Manufacturing

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 65(3), 460–473.

The US Needs to Step Up Biobased Investment to Catch Up with the Rest of the World

Industrial Biotechnology, 14(2), 81–82.

The magnitude of a product recall: offshore outsourcing vs. captive offshoring effects

International Journal of Production Research, 57(13), 4211–4227.

An enactment theory model of supplier financial disruption risk mitigation

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 22(5), 442–457.

An integrated chance-constrained stochastic model for efficient and sustainable supplier selection and order allocation

International Journal of Production Research, 56(21), 6890–6916.

Change Is Good, But Not Too Much: Dynamic Positioning in the Interfirm Network and New Product Development

JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, 35(6), 960–982.

Developing Talent from a Supply–Demand Perspective: An Optimization Model for Managers

Logistics, 1(1), 5.

Do prices vary with purchase volumes in healthcare contracts?

Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation.

On Academic Rankings, Unacceptable Methods, and the Social Obligations of Business Schools

Decision Sciences, 48(3), 561–585.

On academic rankings, unacceptable methods, and the social obligations of business schools

Decision Sciences, 48(3), 561–585.

Risk management consideration in the bioeconomy

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 11(3), 549–566.

The LIVING Supply Chain The Evolving Imperative of Operating in Real Time Preface

In LIVING SUPPLY CHAIN: THE EVOLVING IMPERATIVE OF OPERATING IN REAL TIME (p. XIII-).

Mapping the Landscape of Future Research Themes in Supply Chain Management

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS LOGISTICS, 37(3), 205–212.

An Economic Impact Analysis of the US Biobased Products Industry: A Report to the Congress of the United States of America

Industrial Biotechnology, 11(4), 201–209.

Measuring the benefits of ERP on supply management maturity model: a "big data" method

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, 35(1), 2–25.

The Biobased Products Industry: Reflections and Insights from a Multi-Year Empirical and Modeling Evaluation for the Congress of the United States

Industrial Biotechnology, 11(4), 183–187.

The economic impact of the biobased products industry

Proceedings of the Air and Waste Management Association's Annual Conference and Exhibition, AWMA, 4, 2787–2791. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84983565608&partnerID=MN8TOARS

How Can Supply Management Really Improve Performance? A Knowledge-Based Model of Alignment Capabilities

JOURNAL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, 51(3), 3–17.

Organizational structure and application of supply market intelligence: Current trends and best practice

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 36–40.

Strategic sourcing management's mindset: strategic sourcing orientation and its implications

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, 44(10), 768–795.

The emergent industrial bioeconomy

Industrial Biotechnology, 10(6), 371–375.

Insurance companies' perspectives on the orphan drug pipeline

American Health and Drug Benefits, 6(9). http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84894040406&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Introduction to operations and supply chain management

Boston: Pearson.

Patient-focused network integration in biopharma: Strategic imperatives for the years ahead

Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

A multi-agent simulation of the pharmaceutical supply chain

Journal of Simulation, 6(4), 215–226.

Talent management issues for multinational logistics companies in China: observations from the field

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LOGISTICS-RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, 15(3), 163–179.

Breakthrough Scanning, Supplier Knowledge Exchange, and New Product Development Performance

JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, 28(6), 930–942.

Forces, trends, and decisions in pharmaceutical supply chain management

International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 41(6), 601–622.

Impact factor as a metric to assess journals where OM research is published

JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, 30(1-2), 24–43.

NC State's Supply Chain Resource Cooperative Educates in the Real World

INTERFACES, 41(6), 548–563.

Preparing for the worst: Sustaining suppliers though the economic crisis

In Managing Global Supply Chain Relationships: Operations, Strategies and Practices (pp. 1–15).

THE REVIEWERS HATED IT! WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR RESULTS DON'T ADD UP

JOURNAL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, 47(4), 11–16.

An organizational entrepreneurship model of supply management integration and performance outcomes

International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 29(2), 100–126.

An organizational entrepreneurship model of supply management integration and performance outcomes

[Review of ]. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 29(1-2), 100–126.

Electronic Data Interchange: Research Review and Future Directions

[Review of ]. DECISION SCIENCES, 40(1), 121–163.

Knowledge Sharing in Interorganizational Product Development Teams: The Effect of Formal and Informal Socialization Mechanisms

[Review of ]. JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, 26(2), 156–172.

(Q, r) Inventory policies in a fuzzy uncertain supply chain environment

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, 197(2), 609–619.

Antecedents and outcomes of supply chain effectiveness: An exploratory investigation

Journal of Managerial Issues, 20(2), 161–177. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-45449083870&partnerID=MN8TOARS

BUYER–SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: DERIVED VALUE OVER TWO DECADES

The Journal of Supply Chain Management, 44(2), 28–55.

Buyer dependency and relational capital formation: The mediating effects of socialization processes and supplier integration

Journal of Supply Chain Management, 44(4), 53–65.

Introduction to operations and supply chain management (2nd ed.)

Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Mapping the automotive textile supply chain

In Textile Advances in the Automotive Industry (pp. 17–42).

Strategic purchasing, supply management practices and buyer performance improvement: an empirical study of UK manufacturing organisations

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH, 47(10), 2649–2667.

Supply chain risk management: Minimizing disruptions in global sourcing

New York: Auerbach Publications.