Trust

Option to exchange data confidentially with unknown parties

Within physical OSCM processes, it regularly happens that parties require data from a data owner they are unfamiliar with. This may be the case when a contracted carrier delegates an order to a temporary worker or a (sub-)subcontractor. The BDI makes it possible to indicate automatically which parties are authorised to act on behalf of another party. The data owner can then assess its trust in this party for each situation, either automatically or not. A reputation system helps them with this. It allows unknown parties without a mutual contract to exchange data as well.

Small parties can easily sign up

The BDI makes use of open standards, which makes it relatively easy for small parties to sign up and exchange data. Once these parties have registered with a local subnetwork (the BDI association) and comply with the local rules and conditions, they can participate.

Privacy is guaranteed

Within the BDI framework, you don’t need to share all your privacy-sensitive data with a party in order to do business with them in a confidential manner. The BDI supports use of a third party (e.g. an independent party) to check this identity, so that it doesn’t have to be shared with the data owner. If you are a representative for another company, for example, you can be automatically authorised to view certain data, while your privacy-sensitive data remain encrypted.