Building Strategic Supply Chains
The management consultancy that builds distinctive, high-value supply chains for critical materials and components.
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Supply chain strategy
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International sourcing, production and logistics
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Digital supply chains
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Decarbonized supply chains
The brand that represents 25 years of successful engagements around the world.
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Founded in 1998
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500+ BSI-led client engagements
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400+ publications and patents
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Worldwide presence
Our History
During the early years, BSI developed extensive intellectual capital, including hundreds of articles and presentations on strategic procurement issues, laying a firm foundation for the consulting practice. BSI hired a multicultural blend of top talent from Boston University (where our founder taught), MIT, Harvard, IIT, and other top business and engineering schools to ensure a solid project delivery capability. Based on a solid and extensive body of knowledge for addressing strategic challenges, BSI developed relationships with multinational companies such as BP and Georgia Pacific, and government policy-makers such as the US Department of Transportation, and the New York City Housing Authority. BSI bid, won, and executed high-visibility supply chain and procurement projects for Cabot Corporation, Vale, Charles River Laboratories, and the Saudi Arabian oil company (Saudi Aramco), and other industry leaders. BSI established an office in Dubai to serve the MENA region. We wrote the book Guide to Supply Chain Management for The Economist, the British magazine, and as the firm’s treatment of supply chain management was uniquely strategic and engagements increasingly came from the boardroom, BSI changed its name from Boston Logistics Group to Boston Strategies International. Anticipating the need for its services in countries with a growing need for energy, BSI established strategic partnerships in China, Colombia, India, Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, and the GCC (Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE). BSI documented its deep expertise in oil, gas and power supply chains in Effective Supply Chain Management in Oil, Gas, and Power, for PennWell, the world’s leading energy industry publisher. During 2013 BSI sold and executed consulting engagements for gas, oil, and power companies together with our global partners in Columbia, Russia, Nigeria, China, the UK, and elsewhere. Recognizing the company’s strong brand and marketplace positioning, brand-name customers increasingly engaged BSI to represent their supply chain interests on issues hitting the front-page news. To complement our thoroughly-researched book Reinventing the Energy Value Chain, Boston Strategies International harnessed its technical strengths to support the development and commercialization of low-carbon energy applications through a subsidiary called REVchain LLC.
1998-2003: Developing Digital Supply Chain Tools for Megaprojects
2004: Hiring the Brightest Talent (Harvard, MIT, Wharton, etc.)
2005: Taking a Seat at the Policy-Making Table
2006: Breaking Through Supply Chain Barriers
2007: Expanding to Europe and the Middle East
2008-2009: Defining Supply Chain Strategy and Management
2010: Partnering for Growth
2011: Writing the Book on Energy Supply Chain Optimization
2012-13: Expanding to Asia and Latin America
2014-17: Defining Best Supply Chain Practices & Procedures
Through the Pandemic and Beyond: Leading Industries in Transition