WMS in India

Report on warehouse management

systems in India

Executive Summary
Key Geographies Existing Warehouse Hubs
 Bhiwandi
 Pune
 Panvel
 Hyderabad
 Bangalore
 Chennai
 Kolkata
Future Warehouse Hubs
 Kutch
 Jaipur
 Delhi NCR

Key Customer Segments  Large Enterprises

 Medium Scale Enterprise
 Government

Key Market Drivers  Reduce Handling cost

 Reduce Lead Time
 Tracking
 Throughput
 Efficient Space Utilization

Key Market Challenges  High Cost

 Awareness amongst medium scale
enterprises
 Customization
 Complex Logistics Processes
Key Market Trends  SaaS (Cloud based application)
 Local Partnership
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Key Buying Criteria  Process simplification

 Increase in efficiency
 Reliability
 Cost

Key Vendors  SAP

 Manhattan
 Oracle
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Introduction

Market

 Landscape
 Growth drivers
 Challenges
 Trends
 Segmentation

Vendors

 Landscape
 Key vendor analysis

WMS as a game changer

 Turnaround time
 Efficiency
 Space crunch
 Throughput

Recommendation

 Price sensitive market

 Push strategy
 Free trial period
 Must have > integration –within warehouse outside warehouse
 Distribution and local partnership
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Market

 Landscape
 Growth drivers
o E-commerce Fulfillment Centers
o GST(if implemented)

 Challenges
 Trends
 Segmentation
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Results from Client visit, Telephonic Interviews

and Email based questionnaire.

1. SAP is the market leader in India when it comes ERP and WMS for large
enterprises
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2. Sorting and Inventory Management are the most popular function in WMS

3. Annual Payment of WMS license is the prevalent method of subscription

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4 .Majority of the respondents find it easy to use WMS

(One week of training was sufficient to know as per many warehouse

managers and the customization also helps in making WMS easy to use)
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5. Most users are satisfied with the customer support across the vendors; even
local developers are providing good customer support

(This is due to annual subscription package; failing to provide good customer

service may result into non-renewal of subscription)
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References
ARC advisory group

http://www.arcweb.com/market-studies/pages/warehouse-management-systems.aspx

http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=WAREHOUSING-
DESTINATIONS-10012015307005