DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Micro Fulfillment Market - A Cumulative Opportunity Worth ~$36B by 2030, By Technologies, By End-User, By Deployment, By Warehouse Size, By Key Countries and Regions" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
Micro Fulfillment Market has been the most important and emerging trend during pandemic (covid-19) coming out from some bigger trends like eGrocery Growth, Urban Warehouses, Dark Stores and Automated Cold Storages.
Huge investment in start-ups like Takeoff Technologies ($86M+), Fabric ($336M+), Attabotics ($82M+), Exotec Solutions ($111M+) and Alert Innovation are witnessing this growth along with presence of existing traditional players like Dematic, Swisslog, Knapp, OPEX Corporation, Muratec, AutoStore, Honeywell Intelligrated and Vanderlande.
Retailers such as Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, GAP, Nike, Woolworths, Amazon, Ocado, Carrefour, Uniqlo, Meijer, H-E-B, Albertsons, Majid-Al-Futtaim, Decathlon, Nordstorm, H-Mart and Ahold Delhaize have already started adopting and implementing these new technologies during pandemic.
Apart this, piece picking robots' suppliers like Berkshire Grey, Righthand Robotics, Kindred AI, Covariant, OSARO, Plus One Robotics, XYZ Robotics, Fizyr have established a new attractive capability for order picking in ecommerce fulfillment to transfer the good-to-person (G2P) systems into good-to-robot (G2R) systems.
Coming to MFC system architecture and technologies, AutoStore is an old and proven technology with hundreds of installations in ecommerce fulfullment including the recent partnership with Swisslog and H-E-B for micro fulfillment center in U.S. but they are going to face a very good competition in MFC space from new players like Takeoff Technologies, Fabric, Exotec Solutions, Attabotics, Berkshire Grey, Geek Plus and Alert Innovation.
Established system integrators like Dematic, TGW, SSI-Schaefer, Daifuku, Honeywell Intelligrated, Vanderlande and Knapp are using the traditional shuttle and ASRS systems which are good and already proven for big fulfillment centers but not 100% ideal for micro fulfillment yet. At the same time, Attabotics, Alert Innovation, and Exotec are using emerging 3D technologies having good architecture specific to MFC with high density and no point of failure but it will too early to say anything as there are only few installations and not 100% proved yet.
Apart from this, software is going to be the main differentiator and value add for MFC systems as some suppliers are having their in-house software capabilities and others are having a partnership to do the needful. As per our discussion with technology suppliers and industry experts, every technology and architecture are having its own advantage and disadvantage depending upon the grocery store's location, current requirement, capital expenditure, fear of digitalization and automation from big players, and insecurity related to its consumers' information.
Key Questions to be answered through this study
- What are the major trends and drivers impacting the Micro Fulfillment Market?
- What is the revenue outlook (TAM), Installed base and forecast till 2030 for Micro Fulfillment Market by top segments such as Technologies, End-User, Store Type Deployment, Warehouse Size, Services, and Countries?
- What are the key investments, partnerships and M&A in Micro Fulfillment space?
- What is the impact of ultrafast delivery and dark stores on Micro-Fulfillment Market?
- What is the competitive landscape of Micro Fulfillment Market?
- What are the strategic imperative and calls to action that will define growth and success within Micro Fulfillment by 2030?
Introduction & Background
- eCommerce re-shaping Retail Supply Chain
- Retail Supply Chain disrupted with eCommerce arrival
- Evolution of online grocery and ultrafast delivery
- Ultra-fast delivery/on-demand grocery fulfilment
- Dark stores have smaller footprint, lesser SKUs
- Post COVID-19 buying behavior vs Online Grocery
- US online grocery will be a ~$250B market?
- China on-demand grocery sales reach $20B GMV?
- Increased Automation essential for eCommerce/eGrocery fulfilment
- Degree of Automation at loading and unloading stations
- eGrocery demands faster, more efficient supply chains
- Economics of online grocery vs. ultra-fast delivery
- Higher AOV; better product mix critical to online grocery success
- Battle to gain market share through faster delivery times
- Different strategies used for online grocery fulfillment
- eGrocery will drive Micro-Fulfillment growth
- Introduction of Micro Fulfilment Centers (MFC)
- Centralized Fulfillment Center (CFC) vs Micro Fulfillment (MFC)
- Regional Micro-Fulfillment Center (MFC) vs True Micro-Fulfillment Center (MFC)
- Enabling Technologies for Micro Fulfillment Center (MFC)
- Key Developments in MFC space
- Market Readiness of Retailers to Invest in Micro-Fulfillment Centers
- Emerging Customer Base for MFCs
- Instant / Ultrafast Delivery Service Companies in USA
- Instant / Ultrafast Delivery Service Companies in Europe
Emerging Trends
- Goods to Robots (G2R)
- Piece Picking Robots
- Righthand Robotics
- Berkshire Grey
- Plus One Robotics
- Last Mile Delivery
Micro Fulfilment Centre - Drivers and Challenges
- End-User Behaviour and eCommerce penetration
- Skilled Labour Shortage and High Labour Cost
- Advances in AI and Machine Vision are accelerating development of MFCs
- Increasing urbanization moving FCs closer to end-consumer
- Customer Expectations and last-mile delivery
- Capex and Need for complex software poses some challenges
- Pros and cons of Micro-Fulfillment Centers
Cost Comparison and Advantages
- Micro Fulfillment Center (MFC) vs Centralized Fulfillment Center (CFC)
- Inventory Carrying Cost (ICC) Saving
- Cost Comparison between MFC and other FC formats
- Current state of eGrocery fulfilment strategies
Case Studies
- Alert Innovation and Muratec with Alpen Group (Japan)
- Takeoff Technologies and Carrefour operated by Majid-Al-Futtaim (UAE)
- Alert Innovation and Walmart (USA)
- Dematic and PepsiCo (USA)
- Takeoff Technologies and Woolworths (Australia)
- Fabric and FreshDirect (USA)
- Swisslog and H-E-B (USA)
- Takeoff Technologies and Sedano's (USA)
- Takeoff Technologies and ShopRite (USA)
- Ocado and Kroger (USA)
Companies Analyzed: Company snapshot of innovative start-ups
- Alert Innovation
- Dematic
- Exotec
- Fabric
- Company Profiles
- Addverb Technologies
- Alert Innovation
- Attabotics
- AutoStore
- Cleveron
- Dematic
- Exotec
- Geek Plus
- Fabric
- Home Delivery Service (HDS)
- Honeywell Intelligrated
- i-Collector
- Knapp
- Myrmex
- Ocado Technologies
- OPEX Corporation
- Takeoff Technologies
- Tompkins Robotics
- Vanderlande
- Savoye
- TGW Logistics Group
- KPI Solutions
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