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28 April 2025
BCI Global recognized as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms
The well-known business magazine FORBES has recognized BCI Global in its annual overview again as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms – for 7 years in a row and as only specialized independent supply chain & site selection advisory firm!
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14 April 2025
First Person: René Buck, President & CEO, BCI Global
René Buck has spent the last four decades helping global companies choose where to build. As founder and CEO of BCI Global (Buck Consultants International), he’s led location strategy, site selection projects and supply chain projects across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He launched the Netherlands-based firm on the same day he received two un...
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07 April 2025
Is Your Supply Chain Network Ready for Tomorrow’s Customers?
Global trade and tariff uncertainties, shifting consumer demands, and rapid tech advancements make supply chain networks both critical and vulnerable. Yet, a BCI survey of over 240 logistic VPs and Directors across the U.S. and EU found only a minority of companies regularly review and optimize their networks, leaving most unprepared for disrupt...
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02 April 2025
5 Myths About Forecast Accuracy
Demand forecasting is a crucial component of supply chain management, helping businesses plan inventory, production, and distribution effectively. Many companies strive for higher forecast accuracy, believing it to be the key to improving service levels and reducing costs. However, misconceptions about what forecast accuracy truly means and how ...
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21 March 2025
Master data, often overlooked but not to be ignored
Master data plays a key role in processes and supports decision making. Why do many companies not have a robust process, governance and resources tied into good master data management? Not paying enough attention to master data management leads to people chasing data, wasting time and effort on doing manual rework and to drawing wrong conclusion...
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12 March 2025
New BCI Global Report: No visibility – No resilient supply chain
Only 1 out of 3 companies have the right information about their end-to-end supply chain to review and optimize their global supply chain and manufacturing footprint networks. The other 65% drive in the dark in a turbulent time with global disruptions occurring and emerging
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15 January 2025
Frank Hofstee has joined as Partner Supply Chain Advice
Being able to contribute to the further expansion of BCI Global in my new role as partner is a great challenge. This firm has an excellent reputation
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06 January 2025
'Dynamic' science park sector growth driven by quest tor talent
Prospects for the science park sector are good, driven by demand from startup companies looking for thriving R&D environments inhabited by like-minded people
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11 December 2024
We are Partners! But are you really?!
We are here to dive into the world of partners in the business environment. With a CMO, with a packaging company, with your logistics provider. The question here is: what is real partnership, what is the essence of true partnerships, and why do we seek business partners?
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05 December 2024
BCI Global's Transport Monitor
Road and parcel transport costs on the rise again with gross rate increase expectations of 4-7% for road and 5% for parcel next year. Ocean freight and air freight remain very volatile, according to BCI Global’s Transport Monitor
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05 December 2024
Søstrene Grene selects Venlo, The Netherlands as location for their new distribution center
Danish home decoration retailer Søstrene Grene has selected Venlo, the logistics hotspot location in The Netherlands, as the location for their new distribution center of 45.000 sqm
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04 December 2024
Semicon Investments Surge
Demand for chips will undoubtedly accelerate in the future. But how to guarantee risk-free supply? And what does that mean for the strategy of individual semiconductor companies?
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04 December 2024
Coping with Rising Trade Tariffs
Trade restrictions are on the rise all over the world. President Trump will probably give a push to higher import tariffs, provoking retaliation measures of other trading blocs like Europe and Japan.
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28 November 2024
Forbes Magazine recognizes BCI Global as one of the best consulting firms in the world 2024
The renowned international business magazine Forbes Magazine has announced that also this year the economic, logistics and location consulting firm BCI Global is one of the best consulting firms in the world.
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29 October 2024
Logistics operators now have sustainability firmly on the agenda
ESG factors play an increasing role in the logistics industry and in the logistics real estate markets. But it is not only about the E of Environment.
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29 October 2024
Supply chain executives’ ambitions extend further than end-to-end visibility
Only less than 30% of the internationally operating companies currently have end-to-end supply chain visibility. This is one of the surprising results of a survey of BCI Global and Supply Chain Media among leading supply chain executives.
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31 January 2024
Logistics real estate markets in Europe are expected to stabilize in 2024 after very disappointing 2023
After a sharp decrease in 2023 with 26% of the take up of logistics real estate in 11 European markets, the take up in 2024 will stabilize. This is one of the conclusions of two studies Buck Consultants International / BCI Global published this morning.
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15 December 2023
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): Why? How? What?
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a tool to put a fair price to the lifecycle of carbon intensive goods imported into the EU. As per October 2023, CBAM imposes a reporting obligation and carbon tax for companies importing designated goods, full implementation expected on January 1st, 2026.
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04 December 2023
24 for ’24: Emerging Tech Hubs Around the World
In an exclusive report, the expert team at Netherlands-based BCI Global takes a close look at two dozen ‘out-of-the-box’ cities for future software development and support centers.
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17 November 2023
European road and parcel freight rates will increase with 8% in the next six months
European road and parcel freight rates will increase with 8% in the next six months. Global ocean freight rates are stable at low level, but air freight rates will further decrease with another 5%. These are one of the main conclusions from the Transport Monitor of leading supply chain and logistics consulting company BCI Global. For t...
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28 September 2023
Reshoring to US and Europe accelerates, now also serving CO2 emission reduction objectives
Reshoring accelerates as American and European companies want to de-risk their supply chain from geopolitical developments and supply chain disruptions. This concludes supply chain and location strategy consulting firm BCI Global in a very extensive study (supported by SCM).
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21 September 2023
Forecast: More Regional R&D Centers in Europe, North America and Asia
The next years more companies will set-up R&D centers in the major regions of the world (e.g. Europe, North America, Asia). This expectation was presented at the World Conference of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) in Luxembourg by René Buck, CEO BCI Global.
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11 July 2023
BCI Global Announces ‘DE-5’ Proprietary Framework for Value Chain Management
One of the most influential financial and economic platforms in the world Bloomberg paid attention today to our new DE-5 Proprietary Framework for Value Chain Management. The framework aims to reduce risk in five major areas linked to the operations of many multinational companies. While there are vast differences between various companies and i...
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07 June 2023
Selecting the right logistics company using the Top-100 Logistics Service Providers 2023 in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is a major logistics gateway to the ever growing European market of more than 500 million customers. But where do you start in finding the right Dutch logistics service provider for your European distribution operations? BCI Global offers you the annual overview of the top-100 Logistics Service providers in the Netherlands as a c...