New ARC Advisory Group research reveals that more and more companies are embracing the idea that digitally transforming their enterprise is key to competitiveness in the market. When it comes to digitally transforming the end-to-end supply chain, few solutions would be more important than Supply Chain Planning (SCP). Companies want to be customer-centric while reducing their costs. The key solutions in supply chain planning are demand forecasting/inventory optimization, supply planning, and network design. 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.

"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, Research Director 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

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, RELEX Solutions, 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. 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 4 years of historical analysis segmented by World Region, Industry, Application Type, Customer Tier, Revenue Category, Service Revenues 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 4 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.

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ARC Advisory Group’s new research on the mobile warehouse robotics market shows that it is one of the fastest growing technology markets and indicates that this exceptional growth will continue. Mobile robotics offer flexible, scalable automation to warehouses operating in a time of heightened uncertainty, increasing throughput volumes, and labor constraints. Mobile robotics offer capabilities that ideally fit the requirements of high-volume e-commerce fulfillment operations, allowing for collaboration with warehouse workers and the ability to travel along dynamic routes to increase productivity in dynamic environments. The advanced capabilities of mobile robotics also provide the foundation for productivity improvements in heavy load operations, enabling more rapid implementations and reconfigurations, as well as safety improvements.

"Mobile warehouse robotics are easy to scale, offer the flexibility to meet changing requirements, and deliver a rapid time-to-value. They provide notable productivity improvements at a cost lower than most traditional bolted down automation, can operate collaboratively with workers, and reduce reliance on the labor force. This combination of flexibility and productivity is in high demand in today’s operating environment," according to Clint Reiser, Research Director and key author of ARC's Mobile Warehouse Robotics Market Research Report.

Mobile Warehouse Robotics Market Trends

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

• Rapid Technology Diffusion 
• Interoperability Is an Important Initiative 
• E-Commerce Fulfillment Requirements

Leading Suppliers to the Mobile Warehouse Robotics 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: Exotec Solutions, Geek+, GreyOrange, Hikrobot, Mobile Industrial Robots.

About the Mobile Warehouse Robotics Research

The Mobile Warehouse Robotics 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 World Region, Industry, Revenue Category, Load Type, and 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:

• 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 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.

Global trade compliance (GTC) solutions automate and streamline processes related to customs and regulatory compliance. GTC solutions automate the discovery, creation, retention, analysis, and communication of information about international supply chains that is of importance to customs and other government authorities responsible for regulation and taxation of cross-border trade. These solutions also enable companies to make optimal decisions with respect to the impact of customs and compliance on business operations.

Global trade compliance solutions support communications with international government authorities regarding:

• Duties, tariffs, and preferential treatment requirements placed by governments on international trade and commerce
• Non-financial trade regulations issues, such as restricted parties, government licensing of export rights for controlled items, and other regulations

"The global trade compliance market has matured to a point where customers require capabilities that support trade compliance with the authorities of numerous countries. Customers now want to obtain integration capabilities that provide a holistic view of the enterprise and technology standardization that offers a lower total cost of ownership. Traditionally compliance-based solution markets do not grow as quickly as the GTC market is growing. GTC solutions can have a very good ROI that goes far beyond the automation of trade compliance markets. Several leading suppliers of GTC are also investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning to simplify and improve trade classification capabilities," according to Steve Banker, VP Supply Chain Management, and key author of ARC's Global Trade Compliance Systems Market Research Report.

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 
• GTC Is Increasingly Viewed as Strategic
• GTC 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: Descartes Systems Group, E2open, MIC, SAP, Thomson Reuters.

About the Global Trade Compliance Systems Research

This ARC research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global forecasts for the Global Trade Compliance Systems market. 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 by region, industry, revenue category, and 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 a:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel): Personalized spreadsheet includes three years of historical data in addition to the current base year market data and 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): Provides an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, market forecasts, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with or without detailed charts. 

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

ARC’s research shows the Supply Chain Collaboration Networks (SCCN) market is over $3 billion in size and is projected to grow at double digit rates for the next five years. The SCCN market is composed of EDI Value Added Networks, solutions that originally arose to support industry specific procurement in a marketplace environment, transportation management, or other forms of collaborative supply chain applications based upon a public cloud architecture, real-time transportation visibility solutions, and interesting new solutions that can identify supply chain risks in near real-time.

"Supply chain management became a topic of conversation at the board room level during the pandemic. While the pandemic taught companies many things, undoubtedly one of the key things was the need for agility. A supply chain collaboration network can help facilitate onboarding new partners more quickly, getting visibility to disruptive events or new risks that could (or will) disrupt a company’s supply chain before they occur, and quicker and easier access to information that can improve supply chain planning. In short, there is no doubt that a supply chain collaboration network contributes to agility. It is not surprising that this market continued to grow briskly during the pandemic," according to Steve Banker Research Director and key author of ARC's Supply Chain Collaboration Networks Market Research Report.

Supply Chain Collaboration Networks Market Trends

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

• Acquisitions and Venture Capital 
• SCCN Becomes a Named Market

Leading Suppliers to the Supply Chain Collaboration 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, IBM, OpenText, SPS Commerce.

About the Supply Chain Collaboration Networks Research

The Supply Chain Collaboration 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 and up to 2 years of historical analysis segmented by World Region, Industry, Revenue Category, Service Revenues by Type, Application, 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:

• 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 2 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.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the Transportation Management Systems (TMS) market finds that the Covid-19 pandemic, and the resulting surge in e-commerce and new fulfillment models, were beneficial for the industry. The transportation management systems market, when compared to other software markets, grew in 2020. In the end, this is not overly surprising, given that even during the great lockdown, the TMS market was more insulated than other markets and felt the impact to a lesser extent. Part of this is the nature of TMS and the industries it serves, such as CPG and food & beverage in particular. The economic recovery in the second half of the year has the TMS market poised for continued growth.

TThe COVID-19 pandemic pushed e-commerce to levels that would not have been believed in early 2020. And this is a trend that will continue to grow. While this is putting added strain on shippers and carriers to fulfill customer orders and meet expectations, it is a boon to the Transportation Management Systems market as retail, CPG, and food & beverage companies in particular look to meet growing demand," according to Chris Cunnane Research Director, Supply Chain Management and key author of ARC's Transportation Management Systems Market Research Report.

Transportation Management Systems Market Trends

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

• Artificial intelligence provides better visibility, planning improvements
• Customers looking for real-time visibility solutions
• SaaS transition having significant impact on supplier business

Leading Suppliers to the Transportation 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, BluJay Solutions, Descartes Systems, Infor, Nexus, McLeod, MercuryGate, Oracle, SAP, TMW Systems.

About the Transportation Management Systems Research

This ARC research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global forecasts for the TMS market. 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 by region, industry, revenue category, retail vertical, and 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 a:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel): Personalized spreadsheet includes five years of historical data in addition to  the current base year market data and 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 Presentation 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.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the  Supply Chain Planning market finds that the term “digital supply chain transformation” means different things to different companies. At some companies, it means replacing manual, paper, and pencil processes with digital data and process support. At some companies, it means using robotics in their supply chain. At some companies, it means applying machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive more value from the available data. At yet other companies, it means getting better digital data to support an end-to-end, multi-tier supply chain. In fact, the digital supply chain can extend into all these areas and, as this ARC research reveals, the significant benefits that can be achieved by digitalization will likely drive growth across the supply chain planning market in the coming years.

“The digital supply chain encompasses multiple and often-interactive areas, so if a company only focuses on digital projects designed to replace manual processes within the four walls of the enterprise, that company’s digital and supply chain efforts are immature,” according to Steve Banker, Vice President of Supply Chain Services at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Supply Chain Planning Global Market Research report.

About the Supply Chain Planning Research

This ARC research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year forecasts for the Supply Chain Planning market.  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 by industry, revenue category, customer tier, 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 a:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) – This personalized spreadsheet includes two years of historical data in addition to the current base year market data and five-year market forecast.  The workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the latest data to make it easier to analyze for business intelligence and generate custom reports.

• Concise Presentation 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.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems market reveals that the continued growth of e-commerce is driving growth in this market. E-commerce is also leading to a more open marketplace, as many manufacturers have seen that they can profit from selling directly to customers, rather than using retail channels like in the past.  This is placing a bigger emphasis on parcel shipping and driving significant growth.

“The continued growth of e-commerce is putting more emphasis on last mile deliveries, and parcel execution is becoming more important.  This is especially true as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in e-commerce. This also means that companies need more visibility into where products are, for a more accurate ETA,” according to Chris Cunnane, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems Global Market Research report.

Leading Suppliers to the Transportation Execution and Visibility 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 offering.  In alphabetical order, these include Descartes Systems Group, E2open, and Infor Nexus.

About the Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems Research

This ARC research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global forecasts for the transportation execution and visibility systems market.  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 by region, industry, technology category, mode, and customer 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 a:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) – personalized spreadsheet includes three years of historical data in addition to the current base year market data and 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) – provides an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, market forecasts, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues.  The PDF is available with or without detailed charts.

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

New ARC Advisory Group market research on the Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Systems Integration and Consulting Industry reveals that the retail sector is driving growth in the WMS SI and consulting market and will likely continue to do so over the forecast period. This is due largely to the rapid increase in e-commerce sales.

“Retail is the only market sector in this space forecast to have a double-digit growth rate.  With people increasingly reluctant to visit brick-and-mortar retail stores in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce is booming, driving growth in the overall warehouse management system market,” according to Steve Banker, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Warehouse Management Systems Integration and Consulting Global Market Research report.

Leading Suppliers to the Warehouse Management System Integration and Consulting 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 offering.  In alphabetical order, these include Blue Yonder, Körber, Manhattan Associates, Oracle, and SAP.

About the Warehouse Management System Integration and Consulting Research

This ARC research explores current market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global forecasts for the Warehouse Management System Integration and Consulting market.  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 by region, industry, and 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 a:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) – personalized spreadsheet includes the current base year market data and 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) – provides an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, market forecasts, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues.  The PDF is available with or without detailed charts.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, go to www.arcweb.com/market-studies.