Research collection
Supply-Chain Data Use Cases
Practical ways investors, researchers, and quantitative analysts can use supplier, customer, dependency, and point-in-time relationship data.
About this collection
This collection explains the research questions that company relationship data can help investigate. Each guide stays focused on one analytical use case, such as hidden portfolio overlap, upstream company discovery, geographic exposure, event propagation, or quantitative feature construction.
Company examples may illustrate a method, but the purpose of these pages is to explain the method itself. Detailed conclusions about individual companies belong in the Company Dependency Research collection.
Questions and topics covered
- Portfolio concentration and shared suppliers
- Upstream company and stock discovery
- Geographic supply-chain exposure
- Supply-chain shock propagation
- Supplier and customer dependency analysis
- Quantitative and algorithmic research
- Point-in-time backtesting workflows