Sharing Supply Chain Data in the Digital Era

Effectively managing and coordinating supply chains will increasingly require new approaches to data transparency and collaboration.

Michael Hu and Sean T. Monahan

FALL 2015

There has been plenty of discussion in the mainstream business press about how digital technologies are transforming companies’ business models and customer-facing activities. But what’s discussed less widely is how those technologies are also transforming companies’ supply chains.

We believe that supply chains in coming years will become even more “networked” than they are today — with significant portions of strategic assets and core capabilities externally sourced and coordinated. This will be powered by two trends. First, ...