Abstract: A system and method are disclosed to effectively communicate business data to a plurality of business entities. In one embodiment, a system and method of effectively communicating supply chain management data to business entities are provided. In one embodiment, a data collaboration framework is loaded into a host server to provide one or more data collaboration models to business entities participating in the collaboration of supply chain management data. The data collaboration framework allows the creation of formulas for operating on supplied collaboration data, business rules for raising exceptions, and actions based on exceptions to be easily configured by an administrator.