Business Relationships Analytics (BRA)

In today’s interconnected economy, companies do not operate in isolation. Business Relationships Analytics provides a new way of mapping and analyzing intercompany relationships to enhance decision-making and risk assessment.

The innovative dataset, jointly developed by S&P Global and Redgraphs Inc., captures known business relationships—including customer-supplier links—through regulatory filings, and models unknown values using a patented algorithmic process. By leveraging a fully characterized economic network, this dataset enables rapid scenario analysis of network changes and computes network characteristics to assess company importance.

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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