How usage control fosters willingness to share sensitive data in inter-organizational processes of supply chains

Information sharing in supply chains always requires companies to provide internal information for process optimization or risk mitigation. As such information can often be considered as sensitive for competitiveness of a company, it needs to be protected even on receiver's side. An increasingly used approach to obtain data sovereignty is to apply usage control, which allows data providers to define technically constraints (usage policies) which are applied and enforced on the data receivers' side. This paper provides a blueprint for usage policy realization in an inter-organizational c-parts management process within the logistics supply chain. It shows in particular how usage control can be applied to protect sensitive information and, thus, raise willingness to share sensitive information in business relationships.