Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network - Key Takeaways and Lessons Learned

This IDC Perspective highlights recent survey data and key takeaways for the multi-enterprise supply chain commerce network (MESCCN) market. Specifically, the approach toward B2B collaboration networks, the concerns slowing adoption, the top capabilities currently utilized, and lessons learned from the 2025 MarketScape for MESCCN. "For some years now, IDC has observed the opportunity for cloud-based networks to transform the ways in which supply chains will operate in the future. Recent surveys and discussions with MESCCN users have demonstrated the ability to work within the appropriate set of supply chain networks can raise the performance of the supply chain materially," says Reid Paquin, research vice president, Worldwide Industry Ecosystems and Business Networks Strategies.