New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Warehouse Automation & Control Systems Market shows that substantial order backlogs and strong demand from e-commerce fulfillment projects will enable the market to eke out growth in 2020. ARC expects warehouse automation demand to accelerate in 2021 as disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic subside and delayed projects are reinstated.

“The COVID-19 pandemic-related disruptions in the warehouse automation market have been surprisingly mild compared to those in other industries. Project backlogs remain strong, e-commerce fulfillment demand shows signs of acceleration, and maintenance business continues to provide stability,” according to Clint Reiser, Director of Supply Chain Research at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Warehouse Automation & Control Global Market Research report.

“Recent trends in warehouse automation subsystem adoption remain in place, with stability in verticals that provide essential items, expected acceleration in verticals transitioning to e-commerce, and some isolated declines in demand from businesses that have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic,” added Reiser.

Leading Suppliers to the Warehouse Automation 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.  In alphabetical order, these include: Dematic (KION SCS), KNAPP, and SSI Schaefer.

About the Warehouse Automation 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 warehouse automation 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 world region, revenue category, hardware revenue by equipment type, hardware revenue by load size, industry, retail industry by 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 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 research on the Transportation Management Systems (TMS) market reveals that, increasingly, customers are looking for real-time visibility solutions.  The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) can provide better visibility and improved planning via route optimization.  TMS suppliers need to either develop these capabilities internally, or partner to be able to incorporate them into their solutions.  

“Real-time visibility solutions raise the prospect for machine learning to be used to improve estimated times of arrival (ETAs).  But unless a TMS provider has the same access to network transportation data as public cloud providers, the visibility provider will be in a better position to use artificial intelligence to provide these enhanced ETAs,” according to Chris Cunnane, Research Director, Supply Chain Management, at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Transportation Management Systems Global Market Research report.

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 transportation management 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 industry, revenue category, region, function, 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 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 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 research on the global market for Managed Transportation Services (MTS) reveals that although the automotive vertical accounts for the largest share of the overall market, MTS will see the most growth in the chemical industry vertical over the five-year forecast period.

“The chemicals industry involves hazardous materials, which are more difficult to handle and shipments involve more regulations than in many other industries.  Increasingly, the difficulties associated with these shipments are driving chemical manufacturers to outsource this area to service providers with specific domain expertise,” according to Steve Banker, Vice President at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Managed Transportation Services Global Market Research report.

About the Managed Transportation Services 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 Managed Transportation Services 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, region, and customer freight spend. 

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 up to 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 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 research on the Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) market illustrates the path, rate, and pattern of growth that the market will follow as it navigates the COVID-19-related economic downturn, subsequent rebound, and ultimate return to long-term growth.  According to the research, the WMS market will remain relatively stable during the global economic downturn of 2020.  This is due to its role as a mission-critical technology supporting fulfillment operations that are essential to business.

“ARC is forecasting a short-term reduction in demand for warehouse management systems implementations and upgrades.  However, all but the most distressed WMS users will continue to support their existing infrastructure in the form of WMS maintenance and software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions.  Demand for warehouse management systems will accelerate in 2021 as COVID-19-related restrictions are relaxed, business activity picks up, and pent-up demand for WMS is released,” according to Clint Reiser, Director of Supply Chain Research at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Warehouse Management Systems Global Market Research report.

“Long-term market forces will continue to affect demand for WMS as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic diminishes.  Most notably, the ongoing rapid growth of e-commerce and omni-channel commerce and these channels’ effects on fulfillment requirements will continue to drive demand for WMS solutions,” added Reiser.

About the Warehouse Management Systems Research

ARC Advisory Group has been conducting warehouse management systems research and publishing the WMS report for 20 years.  The extensive history provides valuable insights into the market’s underlying structure and dynamic forces.  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 warehouse management systems market.  This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database and extensive primary and secondary research.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by application category, region, revenue type, customer tier, and industry.    

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 up to 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 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 research on the Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS) market reveals that shuttle systems now represent the primary growth engine of the global AS/RS market.  E-commerce fulfillment requirements are driving demand for warehouse automation, and shuttle systems offer the exceptional throughput, storage density, and agility that these operations require for success in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace.

“Although the installed base of traditional unit-load and mini-load AS/RS is extensive, shuttle systems and cube-based automated storage systems are experiencing the greatest growth.  Shuttle systems are well-established technologies that are well-suited to the needs of high-throughput, highly variable direct-to-consumer fulfillment operations,” according to Clint Reiser, Director of Supply Chain Research at ARC Advisory Group and author of ARC’s Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems Global Market Research report.

“There is also a number of new entrants to the market that provide innovative hybrid systems, which offer the benefits of shuttles and robotics.  These innovations are poised to accelerate the market’s growth,” added Reiser.

About the Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems Research

This ARC research explores current market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year forecasts for the AS/RS market and its segments.  This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database and extensive primary and secondary research.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by region, AS/RS subcategory (unit-load, mini-load, shuttle systems, cube-based storage), end user industry, revenue category, and end user 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, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the Supply Chain Planning systems market reveals that there is great potential to be able to use machine learning for price optimization.  Arguably, this would be a supply chain solution because it would become part of a demand shaping strategy.  Applying machine learning to traditional demand planning is the base level that suppliers need.  More advanced is the ability to apply AI and machine learning to downstream data and social media.  This greatly improves short-term forecasting.

“Machine learning is very widely used to improve demand planning.  Many suppliers have mentioned investments in machine learning to improve supply planning.  A few suppliers are working to use machine learning to provide prescriptive advice to planners on how to resolve supply chain disruptions,” according to Steve Banker, Vice President, Supply Chain Services at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Supply Chain Planning Systems Global Market Research report.

About the Supply Chain Planning 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 supply chain planning 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, service revenue type, application 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 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 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 research on the Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems market reveals that machine learning is shaping the visibility side of the market.  Machine learning can be used to “learn” about constraints (capacity, regulations, hours of service, etc.) and properly plan shipments accordingly.  This gives a much better estimated time of arrival of shipments to warehouses, stores, and the end customer, which drives the transportation execution and visibility systems market.

“Visibility solutions are becoming more necessary.  The need to know where products are – whether they are on the way to the warehouse, store, or customer – is critical to ensure a positive customer experience.  The rise of visibility solutions at the container level is helping to drive the transportation execution market to new heights,” according to Chris Cunnane, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems Global Market Research report.

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 industry, revenue category, mode, sales channels, and customers. 

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 two 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 research on the Supply Chain Collaboration Networks (SCCN) market reveals that digitalization is a trend that has been gaining traction in the last decade.  Supply chain collaboration networks is a critical technology to enable digital transformation at any meaningful scale because it provides the platform to connect disparate systems and internal/external data sources and harmonize the data from these sources to make it decision-grade and machine-ready.  Companies have been keen on making significant investments to digitalize their process to improve efficiency and reduce costs.  This trend has caught on in the supply chain collaboration networks market as well, with vendors in this market seeking to improve their market position in the collaborative networking space or finance firms seeking to invest in this sector.

“Growth in the supply chain collaboration networks market is driven by companies’ digitization efforts, the robust ROI of some of the applications, and the venture capital flowing into this market that is funding sales and marketing efforts,” according to Steve Banker, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Supply Chain Collaboration Networks Global Market Research report.

About the Supply Chain Collaboration Networks 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 supply chain collaboration networks 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, region, revenue category, application, and customers. 

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, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the Transportation Management Systems market reveals that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revenues continue to be the main driver of growth.  Suppliers that have fully made the transition to SaaS – and no longer or only reluctantly sell in the software license model – are growing much faster than their competitors.

“SaaS solutions are becoming increasingly popular in the industry, and this does not just apply to smaller companies that are targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 customers.  A robust SaaS solution offers the same features and functionality as an on-premise solution but can be deployed quicker and generally more cost-efficiently.  Companies need to build a SaaS offering into their near-term growth plan to remain competitive in a crowded market,” according to Chris Cunnane, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Transportation Management Systems Global Market Research 2018-2023 report.

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 transportation management systems market.  This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modeling techniques.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by application, industry, customer freight spend, and revenue category. 

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 up to 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 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.