E-commerce Fulfillment Services Market

E-commerce Fulfillment Services Market: Overview

The proliferation of e-commerce and a resultant rise in the number of online buyers, especially in the emerging economies, is anticipated to fuel market development. Fulfillment service centers enable e-commerce merchants to outsource services including packaging, warehousing, transporting, and other value-added services, for example, return management and urgent parcel service. A fulfillment center is ideal for merchants that don't have hearty warehousing capabilities to manage inventory directly and don't have any desire to invest extra efforts in transportation.

The global e-commerce fulfillment service market is classified on the basis of service, application, and regions. In terms of service type, the market is grouped into shipping, bundling, warehousing and storage fulfillment services, and others. Based on application, the market is grouped into sports & leisure, home & kitchen application, clothing & footwear, healthcare, consumer electronics, books & stationery, beauty & personal care, automotive, and others.

The report on the worldwide e-commerce fulfillment market is based on a comprehensive overview of the market and its prime development trajectories. This includes drivers, restraints, challenges, and impending development opportunities. The report likewise features the effect of the novel COVID19 pandemic on this market and how could manufacturers benefit from it by taking on certain strategies. The report records the table of segmentation, just as the number of players operating in this market. Recent trends and impending opportunities will further shape the future of this market.

E-commerce Fulfillment Services Market: Nature of Competition

Service portfolio extension remains the premier strategy adopted by the market players. For instance, in February 2019, United Parcel Service of America, Inc. launched a new eFulfillment stage. This new stage connects the organization's fulfillment service centers to little and medium-sized businesses on 21 online marketplaces, including Amazon.com, Inc.; eBay Inc.; and Etsy, Inc. The stage enables businesses to handle their orders and inventory easily across several marketplaces from a single area. Consumers worldwide are becoming more demanding towards service aspects, especially regarding the lead time and transportation cost. To cater to the developing consumer expectations, providers are increasingly zeroing in on shortening the delivery cycle alongside offering types of assistance, like snap and-collect, to stay away from delivery charges and ensure easy return and exchange.

E-commerce Fulfillment Services Market: Innovations

• Amazon.com, Inc. uses robots in its fulfillment centers to help associates in performing operations and drive faster delivery times.

E-commerce Fulfillment Services Market: Growth Opportunities

With most of e-commerce sales coming from the metropolitan area, and consumers increasingly demanding item delivery in the shortest possible turnaround time, the area of a fulfillment center is of strategic importance to e-commerce companies. Having centers near significant cities that house items, yet in addition perform other fulfillment services like arranging, packaging, labeling, and transporting helps e-commerce companies to deliver items in a shorter turnaround time and win customer's confidence. Hence, fulfillment centers remain a preferred choice for e-commerce companies that require efficient partners for their fulfillment operations.

E-commerce Fulfillment Services Market: Geography

Asia Pacific dominated the worldwide market and accounted for over 25% of the overall revenue share in 2020. The region is anticipated to continue its dominance over the forecast period because of the increasing internet penetration and development prospect offered by relatively untapped markets in the region (provincial areas and 2-tier cities). What's more, countries, like China, Japan, and South Korea, are among the best 10 exporters of merchandise and record for a large part of worldwide e-commerce sales. In this way, the solid development prospect of the e-commerce industry in the region is the central point supporting regional market development.