Business Relationships Analytics (BRA)
From geopolitical risk to hidden investment signals - discover insights that traditional data sources can't reveal about your business networks.
In today’s interconnected economy, companies do not operate in isolation. Business Relationships Analytics (BRA) provides a new way of mapping and analyzing intercompany relationships to enhance decision-making and risk assessment.
BRA maps 600,000+ entities and 1.6 million supplier-customer relationships to reveal what others miss. Whether you're assessing concentration risk, modeling disruption scenarios, or hunting for alpha in network data, BRA delivers the intelligence you need before the market prices it in.
What can you do with Business Relationships Analytics?
Identify risk, uncover opportunities, and gain competitive edge across your entire business network.
Supply Chain Risk Management
Identify geopolitical and economic risks by analyzing supply chain concentration in regions prone to tariffs, regulatory changes, political instability, or natural disasters.
Supplier Concentration Analysis
Assess supplier concentration risks by highlighting companies dependent on few suppliers or those with a large but concentrated supplier base.
Strategic Sourcing & Collaboration
Collaborate with suppliers through the business network to improve product design, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and spot emerging trends.
Credit & Underwriting
Use known and estimated relationship values to evaluate financial and risk profiles for underwriting loans, filtering out companies less likely to default.
Cost Efficiency & Margin Analysis
Identify cost efficiency opportunities and assess the impact of rising supply costs on margins using COGS% and Revenue% data.
Network Importance Scoring
Compute network centrality metrics (eigenvector, degree, betweenness, closeness) to evaluate a company's importance in the business network and identify systemically critical nodes.
Interactive Visualization | What Can BRA Reveal?
Explore interactive visualizations that showcase how Business Relationships Analytics uncovers hidden connections, supply chain vulnerabilities, and market opportunities. See real-world examples of how network data can reveal company importance, risk transmission, and potential alpha signals before they're visible in traditional financial metrics.
Who uses Business Relationships Analytics?
Quantitative Analysts
Build predictive models on how supply chain disruptions impact stock prices. Use relationship values across geographies, sectors, and styles to improve or create new alpha signals.
Data Scientists
Leverage business relationship networks and metrics to predict supplier risk, optimize supply chain design, and perform risk modeling and scenario analysis.
Fundamental Analysts
Evaluate company efficiency and profitability using COGS% and Revenue% data from business relationships, alongside insights into cost structures and supplier relationship value.
Banks & Insurance
Assess financial and operational risks for underwriting loans or policies by analyzing supply chain networks and the value of supplier relationships, identifying concentration risks compared to industry peers.
Quantitative Research
In It Together: How Company Performance Transmits Through Supply Chains
Supply chains transmit information before markets price it. Customer performance reveals emerging demand, and supplier performance reveals capacity and execution risk. These directional spillovers move through networks in predictable ways.
When customers are getting stronger, suppliers see order flow and revenue visibility improve. When suppliers are stable and delivering reliably, customers maintain margins and avoid operational bottlenecks. Both channels matter. When both directions turn positive at the same time, the effect compounds: companies benefit from improving demand and a supply base capable of supporting it.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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