ARC Advisory Group’s research of the Global Trade Compliance (GTC) market reveals that it has grown by double digit rates for the second year in a row despite the fact that there is no standard user for this type of software and consequently there is no common understanding of what the end-to-end global trade compliance process should be. Sometimes the trade function rolls up to the supply chain function to support agility in cross border movements. Sometimes, it rolls up to legal for companies who want to be sure they are compliant with global regulations. And increasingly we are seeing industry specific solutions. Further, no GTC provider can provide compliance to all trade regulations across all nations which leads to many small domestic suppliers of these solutions.

"The complexities of complying are significant. In truth, properly classifying products for trade purposes can be difficult. The problem is that there is an incredible gap between how products are described commercially by trade and how they are expressed in the national customs tariff schedules. This has resulted in error rates of up to 30 percent. Even government experts frequently disagree on what the classification of a particular product should be," according to Steve Banker, Vice President of Supply Chain Management and key author of ARC's Global Trade Compliance Systems Market Research.

Global Trade Compliance Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• AI and Machine Learning Ease Trade Classification 
• Global Trade Compliance Is Increasingly Viewed as Strategic
• Global Trade Compliance Supports Efficient Sourcing
• Trade Conflict Drives the Need for GTC

Leading Suppliers to the Global Trade Compliance Systems Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: AEB, Descartes Systems Group, E2open, MIC, SAP.

About the Global Trade Compliance Systems Research

The Global Trade Compliance Systems research explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, five-year market forecasts, and 5 years of historical analysis. The research segmentation includes Revenue Category, World Region, Industry, Customer Tier.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• MIRA Service:  An annual subscription service that provides a unique online environment to each customer, together with all the necessary user interface apps and datasets. MIRA unlocks the full benefits of ARC’s time-tested market intelligence by leveraging the latest analytical tools and technologies to allow you to make more actionable, real-time business decisions.   Interactive access to ARC’s qualitative analysis is displayed in context with up-to-date market data, allowing clients to develop customized views of the market to best suit their needs.  
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF):  This wide-screen presentation format provides executives, business unit managers, and other users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.
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According to new research from ARC Advisory Group, direct-to-consumer (e-commerce/omni-channel) fulfillment requirements remain the greatest factor contributing to the growth of the global Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) market. Furthermore, the need for expedited delivery has encouraged companies to adjust fulfillment capabilities or even relocate facilities closer to consumers, further contributing to the demand for WMS’ functional enhancements or expanded licensing. Warehouse operators are turning to WMS and WMS labor management/resource management solutions to assist with labor productivity and employee engagement. Many companies are turning to automation and robotics to help expand warehouse productivity.

"Companies have expanded the scope of their technology adoption to include a greater breadth of scope including adjacent technologies and integration capabilities, as well as a consideration to expand this adoption to multiple sites across an organization and to do so for an extended time horizon. This process of thinking bigger and thinking longer has propelled decision-making from that of a technology product sale to one of a long-term strategic platform partnership," according to Clint Reiser, Director of Research and key author of ARC's Warehouse Management Systems Market Research.

Warehouse Management Systems Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• E-Commerce Fulfillment 
• Global Economy
• Retail Industry
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 
• Warehouse Automation

Leading Suppliers to the Warehouse Management Systems Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: Blue Yonder, Körber Supply Chain, Manhattan Associates, Oracle, SAP.

About the Warehouse Management Systems Research

The Warehouse Management Systems research explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, five-year market forecasts, and five years of historical analysis. The segmentation includes Revenue Category, World Region, Industry, Customer Tier, Type, Retail by Vertical, Add-on by Type.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• MIRA Service:  An annual subscription service that provides a unique online environment to each customer, together with all the necessary user interface apps and datasets. MIRA unlocks the full benefits of ARC’s time-tested market intelligence by leveraging the latest analytical tools and technologies to allow you to make more actionable, real-time business decisions.   Interactive access to ARC’s qualitative analysis is displayed in context with up-to-date market data, allowing clients to develop customized views of the market to best suit their needs.  
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF):  This wide-screen presentation format provides executives, business unit managers, and other users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.
• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot, sold with Market Analysis Report PDF):  A standard Excel Workbook, including base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate data, making it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports, including up to five years of historical analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Analysis Services section.

According to ARC’s latest update to its Supply Chain Planning (SCP) Market Intelligence and Rapid Analysis (MIRA) service, the supply chain planning software market grew at a double-digit rate over the last several years, even during the pandemic. It is unusual for a mature, multibillion-dollar market to grow so fast. Clearly, the pandemic, although now post-pandemic, continues to be a driver of growth for this multibillion-dollar market. The pandemic highlighted the need for companies to be agile and resilient. Agility and resilience continue to be key goals among C-level executives. Executives largely do not believe that we will have smooth and predictable supply chains that were prevalent several years ago. Supply chain planning is one key technology for achieving these goals.

"Business professionals talk about ‘agility’ and ‘resilience’ as if they are the same thing. They are not. A company with an agile supply chain can react quickly to big increases or decreases in demand. An agile company is like a half back in football that can dart quickly to the left or the right depending upon the opening. A resilient company is like a boxer that can take hard punches and keep on battling. In short, agility helps you to maximize upside potential, resilience is preferred if you want to minimize downside risk," according to Steve Banker Vice President of Research and key author of ARC's Supply Chain Planning (SCP) Market Research Report.

Supply Chain Planning Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Agility
• AI/Machine Learning 
• Autonomous Planning 
• Big Data
• Concurrent Planning
• Digital Supply Chain Transformation 
• Ecommerce and Omnichannel
• ESG
• Graph Databases
• Public Cloud Solutions 
• Resilience

Leading Suppliers to the Supply Chain Planning Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: Blue Yonder, Kinaxis Software, o9 Solutions, Oracle, SAP.

About the Supply Chain Planning (SCP) Research

The Supply Chain Planning (SCP) report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts, and five year of historical analysis. The report segmentation includes Revenue Category, World Region, Industry, Customer Tier, Service Revenues by Type, Type. 

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• MIRA Service:  An annual subscription service that provides a unique online environment to each customer, together with all the necessary user interface apps and datasets. MIRA unlocks the full benefits of ARC’s time-tested market intelligence by leveraging the latest analytical tools and technologies to allow you to make more actionable, real-time business decisions.   Interactive access to ARC’s qualitative analysis is displayed in context with up-to-date market data, allowing clients to develop customized views of the market to best suit their needs.  
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF):  This wide-screen presentation format provides executives, business unit managers, and other users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.
• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot, sold with Market Analysis Report PDF):  A standard Excel Workbook, including base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate data, making it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports. Available with 5 years of historical analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Analysis Services section.

ARC Advisory Group’s latest report on the Warehouse Automation market shows once again that the fulfillment requirements from the ongoing, widespread growth in e-commerce continues to be the most prevalent factor stimulating growth in demand for warehouse automation and control systems. Select market segments experienced unparalleled growth from 2019 – 2021. Select project cancellations and currency translation effects are expected to hinder 2022 growth, as measured in US dollars. However, project backlogs and currency stabilization are expected to enable the global warehouse automation market to return to longer-term growth rates in 2023. Shuttle systems, AutoStore implementations, AGVs/AMR, and palletizing are some of the subsystems experiencing rapid growth and adoption.

"In general, business is becoming less predictable. This uncertainty has increased the importance of adaptability, scalability, and modularity. At the same time, fulfillment responsiveness has also become more important than it was in the past. The increased importance of adaptability and responsiveness is largely driven by direct demands or secondary competitive effects from e-commerce fulfillment. Warehouse automation and control market participants should evaluate opportunities to expand their solution footprint with complementary functionality that can deliver synergistic value to their prospect base. If time-to-market is a constraint, viable acquisition candidates should be evaluated," according to Clint Reiser, Director Supply Chain Research, and key author of ARC's Warehouse Automation & Control Market Research Report.

Warehouse Automation & Control Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• E-Commerce Fulfillment 
• Global Economy
• Retail Industry

Leading Suppliers to the Warehouse Automation & Control Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: Dematic, Intelligrated, KNAPP, SSI Schaefer, Vanderlande.

About the Warehouse Automation & Control Research

The Warehouse Automation & Control report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts and up to 5 years of historical analysis segmented by Revenue Category, World Region, Industry, Customer Tier, Retail by Vertical, Hardware Revenue by Equipment Type, Hardware Revenue by Load Size

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

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ARC Advisory Group’s new market size and forecast report on the Transportation Execution Systems (TES) market finds that the COVID-driven surge in e-commerce and new fulfillment models were beneficial for the industry. The transportation execution systems market grew significantly in 2021. Part of this is the nature of TES and the industries it serves, such as CPG and food & beverage in particular. As capacity constraints, port bottlenecks, and supply chain disruptions continue to hamper global supply chains, the need for visibility solutions is more important than ever.

"The COVID-19 pandemic pushed e-commerce to levels that could not have been imagined; and the pace has not slowed. While this is putting an added strain on shippers and carriers to fulfill customer orders and meet expectations, it is a boon to the TES market as retail, CPG, and food & beverage companies in particular look to meet growing demand. The need to know where a shipment is, and when it will arrive, continues to be top of mind for shippers and customers alike," according to Chris Cunnane, Research Director and key author of ARC's Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems Market Research Report.

Transportation Execution Systems Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Blockchain Is Important for Some Industries 
• IoT Is Driving Interest in the Market
• It’s All About the Data
• Visibility Solutions Are More Important

Leading Suppliers to the Transportation Execution Systems Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. These include BluJay Solutions and Descartes.

About the Transportation Execution Systems Research

The Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts and up to 5 years of historical analysis segmented by World Region, Industry, Customer Tier, Revenue Type, Application Type, Mode.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot): A standard Workbook includes the base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports. Available with up to 5 years of historical analysis.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format makes it much easier to find detailed information on a market. This new format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

ARC’s research shows that the market for Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Networks (MSCN) is growing rapidly as the solutions almost always result in increased ROI. MSCN is a new name for networked applications that were already in existence. Some of the platform application providers grew incrementally out of marketplace sourcing solutions, some out of public cloud applications, and some of the risk solutions are much newer types of applications. 

"Supply chain management became a topic of conversation at the board room level during the pandemic. While the pandemic taught companies many things, undoubtedly the key criteria was the need for agility and resilience. The advantages of multi-enterprise supply chain networks go beyond orchestration, optimization, and threat detection. MSCN allows companies to use digital data in place of manually entered data, or even worse – no data, in the places in a supply chain where these information data gaps exist. Increasingly, multi-enterprise supply chain networks is seen as strategic as companies seek to transform their supply chain with digital technologies. Many companies were already committed to a digital transformation, but the pandemic accelerated this trend," according to Steve Banker, Vice President and key author of ARC's Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Networks Market Research Report.

Leading Suppliers to the Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Networks Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: Descartes, E2open, Infor Nexus, One Network, and project44.

About the Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Networks Research

The Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Networks report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts segmented by Revenue Category, World Region, Industry, Customer Tier, Service Revenues, and Application.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot): A standard Workbook includes the base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format makes it much easier to find detailed information on a market. This new format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

The transportation management system integration market is comprised of the revenues generated by system integration and consulting companies that implement transportation management systems. This is a global report. Transportation management is broadly defined in this report: it includes transportation management systems that are multi-modal and include optimization, routing solutions for companies that own transportation assets, solutions that help companies execute shipments in a single mode, and global trade compliance systems. Despite the breadth of the definition, the vast majority of revenues in this market comes from implementations of functionally rich transportation management systems from Blue Yonder, Oracle, and SAP.
 
"A transportation management system provides a good return on investment. The growth of the system integration market that implements TMS, not surprisingly, mirrors the growth of the TMS market. Despite a looming recession, ARC is forecasting reasonable growth over the five-year forecast period. In general, the system integrators covered in this market fall into two categories. One is very large global consulting firms that do system integration in many application areas, custom development, several types of consulting, and managed services. The other is much smaller boutique consultants with practices that are more focused. Both types of system integrators have their own distinct strengths and weaknesses," according to Steve Banker, Vice President of Supply Chain Management and key author of ARC's Transportation Management System Systems Integration & Consulting Services Market Research Report.

TMS Systems Integration & Consulting Services Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Agility
• AI/Machine Learning
• Digital Supply Chain Transformation 
• E-commerce and Omnichannel 
• Environmental, Social, & Governance 
• Platform Solutions
• Public Cloud Solutions 
• Resilience
• SaaS

Leading Suppliers to the TMS Systems Integration Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: Deloitte, InfoSys, Inspirage, Novigo, Tata Consultancy Services.

About the TMS Systems Integration & Consulting Services Research

The TMS Systems Integration & Consulting Services report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts segmented by Revenue Category, World Region, Industry, Customer Tier, Systems Implementation & Integration Service Type, Consulting Service Type, TMS Implementation by Vendor.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

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For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

Direct-to-consumer (e-commerce/omni-channel) fulfillment requirements remain the greatest factor contributing to the growth of the global Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) market. Furthermore, the need for expedited delivery has encouraged companies to adjust fulfillment capabilities or even relocate facilities closer to consumers, further contributing to demand for WMS functional enhancements or expanded licensing. Labor productivity is an ongoing objective for the implementation and use of WMS. However, labor constraints have become more severe over the last couple years. As COVID-19 recedes, economies continue to operate with a shortage of reliable warehouse labor in an inflationary environment. Labor reliability and cost are now of heightened importance, and warehouse operators are turning to WMS and WMS labor management/resource management solutions to assist with labor productivity, employee engagement, and the identification of more creative ways to increase warehouse performance. Many companies are turning to automation and robotics to help expand warehouse productivity. Warehouse management systems providers that support automation integration and orchestration are benefiting from the ability to manage both warehouse labor and automation capabilities in concert.

"Warehouse operators are increasingly challenged with fulfilling orders in short time with limited resources, in a cost-effective manner. The importance of fulfillment in e-commerce, coupled with labor constraints and elevated inflation, are rendering the warehouse performance improvements enabled by WMS a “must have” for thriving in this challenging economic environment," according to Clint Reiser, Supply Chain Research Director and key author of ARC's Warehouse Management Systems Market Research Report.

Warehouse Management Systems Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• E-Commerce Fulfillment
• Global Economy
• Retail Industry
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
• Warehouse Automation

Leading Suppliers to the Warehouse Management Systems Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: Blue Yonder, Körber Supply Chain, Manhattan Associates, Oracle, SAP.

About the Warehouse Management Systems Research

The Warehouse Management Systems report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts and up to 5 years of historical analysis segmented by Revenue Category, World Region, Industry, Customer Tier, Type, Retail by Vertical, Add-on by Type.

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations. These include:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel Power Pivot): A standard Workbook includes the base year market data and a five-year market forecast. This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports. Available with up to 5 years of historical analysis.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format makes it much easier to find detailed information on a market. This new format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.