{"id":33979,"date":"2025-07-07T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/?p=33979"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:04:51","slug":"rob-handfield-links-supply-chain-strength-to-top-company-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/rob-handfield-links-supply-chain-strength-to-top-company-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Handfield Links Supply Chain Strength to Top Company Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Drucker Institute has tracked the best-run companies since 2017, using data that includes supply-chain performance. Now, that supply-chain data has a new name: the Tariff-Resilience Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Rob Handfield<\/a>, Poole professor and executive director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, who coined the term this year to reflect the uncertainty companies are facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving a strong supply chain is essential to being a well-run company,\u201d Handfield said. \u201cIf you\u2019re not investing in that aspect of your business, it\u2019s a fatal flaw.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/trump-tariffs-companies-innovation-50adb032\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:ncst\/dynamic-header {\"block\":\"ncst\/default-post-header\"} -->\n<!-- wp:ncst\/default-post-header {\"displayCategoryID\":170} \/-->\n<!-- \/wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Drucker Institute has tracked the best-run companies since 2017, using data that includes supply-chain performance. Now, that supply-chain data has a new name: the Tariff-Resilience Index.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The change comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Rob Handfield<\/a>, Poole professor and executive director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, who coined the term this year to reflect the uncertainty companies are facing.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cHaving a strong supply chain is essential to being a well-run company,\u201d Handfield said. \u201cIf you\u2019re not investing in that aspect of your business, it\u2019s a fatal flaw.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Read more from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/trump-tariffs-companies-innovation-50adb032\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poole Professor Robert Handfield introduces the Tariff-Resilience Index, a metric that highlights how strong supply chains define today\u2019s best-run companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"displayCategoryID\":170}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170,77,81],"tags":[278,327,173,188,137,562,482],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-33979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-newswire","category-supply-chain-management","tag-handfield","tag-in-the-news","tag-newswire","tag-supply-chain","tag-supply-chain-management","tag-tariff-news","tag-tariffs"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":170,"name":"In the News","slug":"in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":170,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":361,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33981,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979\/revisions\/33981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33979"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=33979"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}