Supply Chain Collaboration Networks

The Supply Chain Collaboration Networks market research study delivers current market analysis plus a five year market and technology forecast. The study is available in multiple editions including worldwide, all regions, and most major countries.

Supply Chain Collaboration Networks - The Critical Solution for Supply Chain Digitization

A supply chain collaboration network (SCCN) solution is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud, many-to-many architecture which supports a community of trading partners.  Many-to-many refers to both many participants in a network able to collaborate with many other partners, and many participants being able to access many sources of normalized event data critical to supply chain operations.  SCCN applications include Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Returns, Supply Chain Risks, and Supply Chain Finance.

A supply chain collaboration network is a critical solution for digital transformations in the supply chain realm.  A digital transformation allows companies to use digital data, to replace manually entered data, or even worse – no data, in the places in a supply chain where these information data gaps exist.  And in many companies’ supply chains, it is the end-to-end portion of the supply chain, knowing what upstream and downstream partners are doing, how well they are doing it, and where the most data gaps are.

The supply chain collaboration network solution has existed in different forms for many years.  But the increased focus on digitization has led to this recently becoming a named software category researched on and written about by major industry analyst firms. 

Supply Chain Collaboration Networks Market Trends

Newly named markets offer both opportunities and threats.  How should suppliers position their value proposition in this new environment?

• Are different strategies required for selling individual applications vs. getting on the digital bandwagon?
• What approaches to SCCN reflect a higher level of digital maturity?
• How will economic nationalism impact this market?
• How can niche suppliers flourish in a market with network effects?