This in-depth market data research is split into two key modules: Market Growth Outlook and Competitive Analysis. Each of these modules is further configured into several sub-modules to meet the needs of executives as well as marketing, sales, and product development managers. All of these modules and sub-modules may be purchased as a bundle or separately. A brief description of these modules, sub-modules, and their use cases is included below.
This Warehouse Automation and Control market research delivers current market analysis plus a five-year market and technology forecast. It is available in multiple editions including worldwide, all regions, and most major countries.
Booming Post-pandemic Warehouse Automation Growth Followed by Uncertainty
ARC Advisory Group’s research 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.
Warehouse Automation and Control Market Strategic Issues
In addition to providing a five-year market forecast, the Warehouse Automation and Control market research provides detailed quantitative current market data and addresses key strategic issues as follows.
Develop a Thorough Business Case
Warehouse automation and control projects can require substantial capital investment. Organizations often require quantifiable investment returns for approval. When developing a business case, warehouse automation buyers should consider hard savings such as reduction in variable costs, performance enhancements such as throughput increases and reliability improvements, soft savings such as reduced return rates from order accuracy improvements, and periodic cost savings such as ease of system adaptability. In addition, the value of the option to scale up or down should be considered. This value is difficult to quantify but is essential for incremental revenue increases during expansions and marginal cost savings during downturns.
Exploit Suppliers' Desire to Gain Market Share
A number of warehouse automation suppliers are attempting to gain market share at the temporary expense of profit margins. The recent wave of acquisitions within the warehouse automation market has shifted the competitive landscape and provided certain suppliers with a new opportunity to sell into a given region or end user industry. In addition, the ability of these firms to sell multiple complementary products provides them with economies of scale and buyers with potential opportunity for cost savings. Buyers should consider the current dynamics within the market and enquire about opportunities to reduce their costs if they can provide a given supplier with a much-needed project win.
Single Supplier vs. Hardware Agnostic Options
Many of the largest warehouse automation providers are both warehouse system integrators (SIs) and material handling subsystem manufacturers. The vertically integrated providers that serve as general contractors/SIs as well as manufacturers can also serve as a one-stop shop to deliver an end-to-end solution. This has benefits such as native system integration and homogeneity across subsystems. However, it is possible that subsystems from such an end-to-end provider may be suboptimal. In contrast, some suppliers that serve as general contractors will source subsystems from a number of providers and integrate the disparate subsystems. This approach may provide greater freedom in subsystem selection, but has risks, including low priority status for subsystem suppliers (a concern in growth cycles with order backlogs) and potential maintenance concerns with heterogeneous subsystems from different suppliers. Buyers should consider these factors when evaluating various suppliers and also understand that very often a subsystem such as a shuttle system may be an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) product that can be sourced from a number of different suppliers.
Market Data Research Available Datasets
Market Growth Outlook
ARC’s market growth outlook service delivers an in-depth market opportunity analysis including five-year market and technology forecasts and 3-year history trend lines where available. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.
This service is designed to help accelerate your organization's ability to understand an up-to-date view of the market opportunity provided by your current product portfolio and analyze how your company’s market opportunity would change if you were to acquire or divest a particular product line. The service will also help you identify and capitalize on emerging markets, whether these markets are based on an emerging technology, region, vertical industry, or application. Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying the opportunities provided by emerging trends. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of market growth opportunity analyses for nearly four decades also provides greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market growth outlook services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.
In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet your specific needs. For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.
ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market opportunities designed to help executives quickly identify key trends and market opportunities around the world. In-depth market opportunity analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific market information to plan marketing and product development strategies. The following table shows more specific information included in each version.
| Market Growth Outlook Analysis | Use Cases | Target Role |
| Worldwide Market Growth Outlook by Industry & Region with 3-year history where available | In-depth technology-specific strategic growth planning across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries | Product & Marketing Managers |
| Worldwide Industry Growth Outlook by Region with 3-year history where available | Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industries | Industry Managers |
| Regional/Country Market Growth Outlook by Technology & Industry with 3-year history where available (includes country data) | Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple world regions | Regional & Country Sales Managers |
| Market Growth Outlook Executive View | Strategic Total Available Market (TAM) growth planning dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regions | Executives |
Market Competitive Analysis
ARC’s Competitive Analysis services deliver in depth competitive analyses across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.
This service is designed to help product and marketing managers identify their company’s market positioning across multiple views within their Serviceable Available Market (SAM). Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying how their company’s market position would change if the company were to acquire or divest a particular product line or technology. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of competitive market benchmarking for nearly four decades lends greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market competitive services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.
In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet the specific needs of our clients. For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.
ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market competitive analyses designed to help executives quickly assess their SAM by world region, technology, or vertical industry. In-depth competitive market analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific benchmarking information to plan marketing and product development strategies. The following table shows more specific information included in each version.
| Competitive Analysis | Use Cases | Target Role |
| Worldwide Competitive Analysis by Technology | In-depth competitive market analysis that quantifies how your company’s market position has changed over time across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries | Product & Marketing Managers |
| Worldwide Competitive Analysis by Industry | Strategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industries | Industry Managers |
| Regional/Country Competitive Analysis by Industry | Strategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple world regions | Regional Sales Managers |
| Competitive Analysis Executive View | Strategic Serviceable Available Market (SAM) analysis dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regions | Executives |
Worldwide Research Focus Areas
Worldwide Research Focus Areas
Strategic Analysis
- Executive Overview
- Market Trends
- Buyer Strategies
- Supplier Strategies
- Growth Contributors and Inhibitors
Competitive Analysis
- Market Shares of the Leading Suppliers
- Market Shares by Region
- North America
- Europe, Middle East, Africa
- Asia
- Latin America
- Market Shares by Revenue Type
- Hardware
- Software
- Services
- Market Shares of Hardware by Equipment
- AS/RS
- Conveyors & Sortation
- Pallet/Depallet
- Pick/Put Support
- Racks and Carousels
- WH Transporters (AGVs/AMRs)
- Market Shares of Hardware by Load
- Pallet Load
- Tote, Carton, Box Load
- Small Item Load
- Market Shares by Industry
- Automotive
- Clothing and Apparel Manufacturing
- Electronics & Electrical
- Food & Beverage
- Household & Personal Care
- Machinery
- Pharmaceutical & Biotech
- Retail
- Transportation and Logistics
- Wholesalers & Distributors
- Market Shares of Retail by Type
- Apparel
- Department & General Merchandise
- Electronics
- Grocery/Food & Beverage
- Home Improvement
- Pharma/Health & Beauty
- Market Shares by Customer Tier
Market Forecasts and Histories
- Total Shipments of Warehouse Automation & Control
- Shipments by Region
- North America
- Europe, Middle East, Africa
- Asia
- Latin America
- Shipments by Revenue Type
- Hardware
- Software
- Services
- Shipments of Hardware by Equipment
- Racks and Carousels
- AS/RS
- Conveyors & Sortation
- PLCs, Controllers
- Pick/Put Support
- Pallet/Depallet
- WH Transporters
- Shipments of Hardware by Load
- Pallet Load
- Tote, Carton, Box Load
- Small Item Load
- Shipments by Industry
- Automotive
- Clothing and Apparel Manufacturing
- Electronics & Electrical
- Food & Beverage
- Household & Personal Care
- Machinery
- Pharmaceutical & Biotech
- Retail
- Transportation and Logistics
- Wholesalers & Distributors
- Shipments of Retail by Type
- Apparel
- Department & General Merchandise
- Electronics
- Grocery/Food & Beverage
- Home Improvement
- Pharma/Health & Beauty
- Shipments by Customer Tier
Industry Participants
The research identifies all relevant suppliers serving this market.
Regional Research Focus Areas
Strategic Analysis
Competitive Analysis
- Leading Suppliers in Region
- Industry Shares in Region
- Country Shares in Region
- Leading Suppliers by Industry
Market Forecasts
- Market Forecast by Country
- Market Forecast by Industry
List of countries included in each region: MIRA-Country
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