Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Director Emeritus Primary Organization 
Beroe Inc - Advantage Procurement
Location Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Regions Research Triangle, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Rob 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 (http://scm.ncsu.edu).
The SCRC is the first major industry - university partnership to integrate student projects into the MBA curriculum, and has had 15
Fortune 100 companies participating as industry partners since 1999. Prior to this role, Robert was an Associate Professor with the Global Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative at Michigan State University from 1992-1999, working closely with Professor Robert Monczka.
Rob is the author of several books on supply chain management, and has published many scholarly articles on the subject. He is considered a thought leader in the field of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier relationship management. He has spoken on these subjects at companies around the world, including China, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Latin America, Germany, Korea, Japan, the UK, and other regions.
Rob grew up in Calgary Canada playing hockey and downhill skiing. Currently he commutes weekly from Charleston, South Carolina to NC State. His wife Sandi is a mathematics professor at the College of Charleston, and he has a daughter and a son. Rob enjoys the outdoors and has completed several marathons and triathlons, as well as spending time fly fishing with his son in the North Carolina mountains.
Robert received his PhD in Operations Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BSc in Applied Math from the University of British Columbia.
