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A new report forecasts that the global e-commerce logistics market is expected to garner $535,895 million by 2022, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.2% during the period 2016-2022. 

E-Commerce Logistics Market Report, published by Allied Market Research, forecasts that the global e-commerce logistics market is expected to garner $535,895 million by 2022, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.2% during the period 2016-2022. The transportation service type generated the largest market share in 2015 while warehousing sub-segment is expected to register fastest growth during the forecast period 2016-2022. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the largest market over the forecast period.

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A booming e-commerce industry, execution in third party logistics (3PL), and enhanced relationships between customers and suppliers provide heightened growth avenue for the e-commerce logistics industry. Retailers have revamped their traditional warehouses to cater to the requirements of e-commerce and logistics to improve the store-level inventory accuracy and increase their ability to serve larger consignments. Furthermore, supply chain solutions are being customized to serve the user requirements with the transformed fundamentals of product distribution and advancements in technology. Additionally, business analytics has assisted logistics professionals to increase the speed and efficiency of work processes.

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The extended execution of supply chain footprint is highly opportunistic for the market growth. However, factors such as high deployment of warehouse management solutions and regulatory issues restrict the market growth to a considerable extent.

Asia-Pacific is the most productive market for e-commerce logistics as compared to others owing to the increasing population, globalization, upsurge in the sales of smartphones, and increasing number of netizens. Furthermore the, Latin America, Middle East Asia (LAMEA) region is projected to grow at the fastest pace over the forecast period owing to technological advancements and rising internet connectivity in the region

In 2015, transportation sub-segment dominated the market; however, warehousing service type is anticipated to witness the fastest growth over the forecast period. The integration of e-commerce logistics with transportation management software (TMS) has boosted the e-commerce logistics market growth. TMS aids in planning deliveries across the supply chain. Furthermore, optimizing the flow of goods and leveraging consolidated capacity have increased the growth potential of the market. Further, the domestic operational area leads the global e-commerce logistics market and international operational area portrays the fastest growth rate in the global market.

Key Findings of the E-Commerce Logistics Market

• Transportation is expected to exhibit a significant growth in the e-commerce logistics market
• Domestic operational area generated the highest revenue as compared to international area and is anticipated to maintain its dominance over the forecast period
• LAMEA is projected to exhibit a substantial growth during the forecast period

The key players in the global e-commerce logistics market include DHL International GmbH, Aramex International, FedEx Corporation, S.F. Express, Gati Limited, Amazon, Kenco Group, Inc., Ceva Holdings LLC, United Parcel Service, Inc., and Clipper Logistics Plc.

By  Ravi Chawat

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 3D Printing

According to authors John Manners-Bell and Ken Lyon 3D Printing, or additive manufacturing, has the potential to become the biggest single disruptive phenomenon to impact global industry since assembly lines were introduced in early twentieth century America.

A new report by by John Manners-Bell of Transport Intelligence and Ken Lyon of Virtual-Partners Ltd., points to the growing role 3D printing is having on the global economy and outlines the potential for the technology to disrupt the logistics industry in particular.

Other commentators also point out that the 3D printing industry is approaching critical mass.  The "service economy" and much of the current economic paradigm will be swept away with emerging technologies like 3D printing developing.

Entire supply chains and even the concept of "logistics" may be radically changed or even effectively ended when all someone has to do is hit a "print" button and an object is produced before their very eyes.  Moreover, the speed at which these technologies are being developed and implemented is increasing exponentially.

The report examines how 3D printing or, 'additive manufacturing' will revolutionize production techniques, which will threaten the global transportation and logistics industry, potentially reversing the march of globalization that has been the norm for the past few decades. This report is enlightening because it focuses on how 3D printing will impact the massive industry that is built around manufacturing –the moving of raw materials, parts and finished products around the world.

The authors report that the implications of this new manufacturing technology for the logistics industry could be massive:

• Potentially a proportion of goods which were previously produced in China or other Asia markets could be ‘near-sourced’ to North America and Europe. This would reduce shipping and air cargo volumes. 

• The ‘mass customisation’ of products would mean that inventory levels fall, as goods are made to order. This would have the effect of reducing warehousing requirements. 

• There would be fewer opportunities for logistics suppliers to be involved in companies’ upstream supply chains, as manufacturing processes are increasingly re-bundled within a single facility. Tiers of component suppliers are done away with, as is the need for supplier villages, line side supply etc. 

• Downstream logistics would also be affected. Build-to-order production strategies could fundamentally impact the manufacturer-wholesaler-retailer relationship. In the future the shopping experience could also be vastly different. In some sectors, retailers will either cease to exist or become ‘shop windows’ for manufacturers, keeping no stock of their own. Orders are fulfilled directly by the manufacturer, and delivered to the home of the consumer. 

• A major new sector of the logistics industry would emerge dealing with the storage and movement of the raw materials which ‘feed’ the 3D Printers. As 3D Printers become more affordable to the general public, the home delivery market of these materials would increase. 

• The Service Parts Logistics sector would be one of the first to be affected. At present billions are spent on holding stock to supply products as diverse as cars to x-ray machines. In some cases huge amount of redundancy is built into supply chains to enable parts to be dispatched in a very short timescale to get machines up and running again as fast as possible. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand the benefits for a service parts engineer of being able to download a part design from an online library, 3D Print it and then fit it within a very short time window. This would make global and national parts warehouses as well as forward stock locations unnecessary to fulfilling customer needs.

Manners-Bell and Lyon write that it is difficult to see that industry will undergo complete transformation for many years – probably decades – to come. What could happen, though, is that that some sectors are penetrated by the technology at a much earlier stage, such as the manufacture of spare parts.

In this case, the most enlightened logistics companies could even become early adopters of the technologies – investing in the 3D Printers and providing facilities for designers and engineers – rather than kicking against the progress. This would also provide a way of leveraging their capital and their own technological capabilities.

The authors cite that in 2012 already up to 30% of finished products already involve 3D printing in some manner; by 2016 this is to rise to 50%, and by 2020 perhaps up to 80%.  Essentially, 3D printing is moving from a prototyping and visualization tool more and more to the actual production of finished parts and products.
Larger logistics companies, write Manners-Bell and Lyon that delay or ignore the implications of the 3D printing trend are vulnerable to new kinds of organisations or associations that will match or potentially leap ahead of their own capabilities.



SOURCE  Report: The implications of 3d printing for the global logistics industry (open access PDF)

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