Market Trends of Cloud Supply Chain Management Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Cloud Supply Chain Management Market according to our research experts:
Retail Industry is Expected to Register a Significant Growth
- The retail industry is expected to register significant growth as most key players are adopting cloud-based technologies to transform their supply chains with unprecedented visibility and insights from data. Technology integrations focus on understanding the customer journey and providing substantive improvement.
- With the growing retail sector, the adoption of advanced technologies is significantly growing; therefore, the retail industry players require tools that enable organizations to manage paper documents and structured and unstructured data more effectively to remain competitive. Hence, most key players are adopting cloud-based technologies to transform their supply chains with unprecedented visibility and insights from data. Technology integrations focus on understanding the customer journey and providing substantive improvement.
- Customer retention has become more important than before due to increased players in the market with the growth of e-commerce. Cloud computing helps enhance customer experiences as it captures and analyzes data from many sources, identifies patterns and predicts needs, and offers on-demand services. It also provides retailers access to all business content from the core line-of-business applications to provide timely responses and exceptional service to the customers, separating them from their competition.
- Additionally, automation tools improve distribution and inventory management by digitizing inventory information and using analytics and visual reporting. Therefore, it enables retailers to automate the supply chain from the inbound carrier to manage and distribute inventory to store-level reconciliation. It leads to lower operational costs, a more straightforward, faster way to reconcile invoices, and improved fill rates by shrinking reorder time.
North America Hold Significant Market Share
- North America may experience notable market growth, principally driven by the selection of GS1 standards designed to promote the safety, efficiency, and visibility of supply chains across physical and digital channels in 25 sectors in the United States.
- The growing adoption of cloud in the US is contributing to the market. According to a report published by Stormforgein in April 2021, 18% of respondents from North America state that their organization has a monthly cloud spend of between USD 100,000 and USD 250,000. Further, 44% of respondents expect cloud spending to increase somewhat over the next 12 months, while another 32% indicate that they expect their organization's cloud spending to increase significantly over the next 12 months.
- Customers in the United States are profiting from the diversity of transport modes in their increasingly connected environment. Logistics businesses offer the integration of information flow through supply chain management software, packaging, material handling, warehousing, forwarding, returned goods management, and brokerage.
- Further, Lockdowns and travel restrictions have disrupted different sectors of the US economy and considerably influenced supply chain operations during these periods of fast upheaval. Businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing and storage in these uncertain times to increase the flexibility and agility of their supply networks.
- Moreover, the Government of Canada has a “cloud-first” strategy whereby cloud services are identified and evaluated as the principal delivery option when initiating information technology investments, initiatives, strategies, and projects. The cloud will also allow the Government of Canada to harness the innovation of private-sector providers to make its information technology more agile. Such initiatives are expected to provide ample opportunities to the cloud supply chain management.