Global Recession Impacts the SCE Market
By ARC’s definition, the Supply Chain Execution (SCE) market is composed of Warehouse and Transportation Management Systems as well as Production Management Systems.
As one would expect, the global recession impacted the SCE market. However, the market held up much better than many other enterprise application markets.
This SCE study is based on detailed production management and logistics system studies that were previously completed.
Market shares and forecasts are based on combining the data from those individual studies.
The authors of the logistics and production management studies all lowered their forecasts based on the recession, and consequently our forecast for SCE is lower than it was just two years ago. However, the good news is the recession is winding down, many growth drivers remain, and ARC’s forecast reflects those drivers.
Strategic Issues
When times are tough, companies tend to hunker down and reduce expenditures. However, no company can afford to stop investing in long term growth. Key issues addressed in this study include:
- What are the very different value propositions offered by leading suppliers?
- How are SaaS solutions affecting the market’s growth? Which types of applications are particularly well suited for SaaS and why?
- What types of service capabilities will become increasingly important?