Challenges and Opportunities of Intercompany Big Data Analytics in Supply Chains

This chapter investigates the possible challenges and opportunities of big data analytics between supply chain participants. It answers the question which barriers prevent the companies from the usage of intercompany Big Data Analytics. In addition, this chapter investigates which potential benefits such analysis can bring to the supply chain members and how they influence the relation between the companies. This chapter presents different already existing data exchange options and elaborates which benefits the intercompany data exchange might give. After describing these cooperations, this chapter discusses why the companies are willing to exchange data in these cases but not on a regular basis. After this discussion, the chapter shows possible concepts, applications, and solutions to compete the identified lack of intercompany data exchange and analysis. This chapter closes with a discussion of the findings.