Logistics Automation Market

This research study involves the extensive use of secondary sources, directories, and databases, such as D&B Hoovers, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Factiva, to identify and collect information useful for this technical, market-oriented, and commercial study of the logistics automation market. The primary sources are mainly industry experts from the core and related industries, preferred logistics automation systems, software, and service providers, third-party service providers, consulting service providers, end users, and other commercial enterprises. In-depth interviews have been conducted with various primary respondents, including key industry participants and subject matter experts, to obtain and verify critical qualitative and quantitative information, as well as to assess the growth prospects. The following figure highlights the market research methodology applied to make the logistics automation market report.

Secondary Research

In the secondary research process, various secondary sources have been referred to for identifying and collecting information for the study. The secondary sources include annual reports; press releases and investor presentations of companies; and white papers, certified publications, and articles from recognized associations and government publishing sources. Several journals and various associations have also been referred to, such as the International Journal of Logistics Management, Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), Innovations and Strategies for Logistics and Supply Chains (ISBN), and the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. Secondary research has been mainly used to obtain key information about industry insights, the market's monetary chain, the overall pool of key players, market classification, and segmentation according to industry trends to the bottom-most level, regional markets, and key developments from both market- and technology-oriented perspectives.

Secondary research has been mainly used to obtain key information about industry insights, the market's monetary chain, the overall pool of key players, market classification and segmentation according to industry trends to the bottom-most level, regional markets, and key developments from both market- and technology-oriented perspectives.

Primary Research

In the primary research process, various primary sources from both supply and demand sides have been interviewed to obtain qualitative and quantitative information on the market. The primary sources from the supply side include various industry experts, including Chief Technology Officers (CTOs); Vice Presidents (VPs); directors from business development, marketing, and product development/innovation teams; related key executives from logistics automation solution and service vendors, system integrators, professional and managed service providers, industry associations, and consultants; and key opinion leaders.

Primary interviews have been conducted to gather insights, such as market statistics, data of revenue collected from solutions and services, market breakups, market size estimations, market forecasts, and data triangulation. Primary research also helps understand various trends related to technology, application, deployment, and region. Stakeholders from the demand side, such as Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Finance Officers (CFOs), and Chief Strategy Officers (CSOs), and the installation team of end users who use logistics automation solutions, have been interviewed to understand the buyer's perspective on suppliers, products, service providers, and their current usage of logistics automation solutions, which is expected to affect the overall logistics automation market growth.

Note 1: Others include sales managers, marketing managers, and product managers.
Note 2: Tier 1 companies’ revenues are more than USD 10 billion; tier 2 companies’ revenues range between USD 1 and 10 billion; and tier 3 companies’ revenues range between USD 500 million and USD 1 billion.

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Market Size Estimation

Multiple approaches were adopted for estimating and forecasting the logistics automation market. The first approach involves estimating the market size by companies’ revenue generated through the sale of logistics automation products.

Market Size Estimation Methodology- Top-down approach

In the top-down approach, an exhaustive list of all the vendors offering products in the logistics automation market was prepared. The revenue contribution of the market vendors was estimated through annual reports, press releases, funding, investor presentations, paid databases, and primary interviews. Each vendor's offerings were evaluated based on the breadth of product type, deployment mode, architecture, and end user. The aggregate of all the companies’ revenue was extrapolated to reach the overall market size. Each subsegment was studied and analyzed for its global market size and regional penetration. The markets were triangulated through both primary and secondary research. The primary procedure included extensive interviews for key insights from industry leaders, such as CIOs, CEOs, VPs, directors, and marketing executives. The market numbers were further triangulated with the existing MarketsandMarkets’ repository for validation.

Market Size Estimation Methodology-Bottom-up approach

In the bottom-up approach, the adoption rate of logistics automation products among different verticals in key countries with respect to their regions contributing the most to the market share was identified. For cross-validation, the adoption of logistics automation products among enterprises, along with different use cases with respect to their regions, was identified and extrapolated. Weightage was given to use cases identified in different regions for the market size calculation.

Based on the market numbers, the regional split was determined by primary and secondary sources. The procedure included the analysis of the logistics automation market’s regional penetration. Based on secondary research, the regional spending on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), socio-economic analysis of each country, strategic vendor analysis of major logistics automation providers, and organic and inorganic business development activities of regional and global players were estimated. With the data triangulation procedure and data validation through primaries, the exact values of the overall logistics automation market size and segments’ size were determined and confirmed using the study.

Logistics Automation Market : Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach

Data Triangulation

After arriving at the overall market size using the market size estimation processes as explained above, the market was split into several segments and subsegments. To complete the overall market engineering process and arrive at the exact statistics of each market segment and subsegment, data triangulation and market breakup procedures were employed, wherever applicable. The overall market size was then used in the top-down procedure to estimate the size of other individual markets via percentage splits of the market segmentation.