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The increased amount of data being generated in virtually every context provides huge potential for a variety of organisational application fields, one of them being Supply Chain Management (SCM). The possibilities and use cases of applying this new type of data, i.e. Big Data (BD), is huge and a large body of research has already been conducted in this area. The current paper aims at identifying the understanding and the applications of BD not from an academic but a practitioners’ point of view. By applying expert interviews, the main aim is to identify (i) a definition of Big Data from SCM practitioners’ point of view, (ii) current SCM activities and processes where BD is already used in practice, (iii) potential future application fields for BD as seen in SCM practice and (iv) main hinderers of BD application. The results show that Big Data is referred to as complex data sets with high volumes and a variety of sources that …