René Buck is CEO of BCI Global. René Buck started BCI on the day that he graduated from the University Nijmegen, the Netherlands in April 1985. Now 40 years later BCI is one of the world’s leading independent international manufacturing footprint & location strategy, and supply chain & network design consulting companies. Forbes recognized BCI not only as one of America’s Best Management Consulting firms (for six years in a row), but also as one of the 200 World’s Best Management Consulting Firms, based on the recommendations of clients and international companies. BCI has offices in the US (Atlanta, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Dallas), Europe (Nijmegen & the Hague – the Netherlands; Frankfurt – Germany) and Asia (Singapore; Shanghai – China; Taipei – Taiwan ).

In the last 40+ years BCI has supported more than 2,000 clients in 50+ countries in a wide variety of industry verticals.

Our manufacturing footprint optimization and site selection consulting combines proven frameworks with in-depth global knowledge of manufacturing location hotspots, detailed labor analytics, understanding cost and quality of the business environment factors, incentives and risks in North America, Europe and Asia.

Our supply chain advice ranges from transformation of supply chains, network design, CoEs, Control Towers, procurement of logistics services, to location strategy for warehousing, go-to-market strategies into new markets and risk & resilience assessment.