Market Trends of Smart Shelf Industry
Adoption of Enhanced Inventory Management is Expected to Drive the Market
- With increasing online sales, it is important for businesses to invest in a robust pipeline of fairly priced, consistent, and high-quality goods. In this new context, managing safety inventories and optimizing operational efficiency is more important than ever. As a result, e-commerce businesses have increased their usage of inventory management software in recent years. Inventory management systems are required by retail companies all around the globe to assist them in keeping track of their existing inventory and meet escalating demand.
- Retailers are seeking better, more time-efficient, and cost-effective inventory management methods. Traditional inventory management systems are time-consuming and prone to human mistakes, both of which cost firms time and money. Retailers can minimize shrinkage and enhance overall company efficiency by using smart inventory management technologies, such as smart shelves, autonomous inventory robots, RFID, and so on.
- Smart inventory management methods, such as autonomous inventory robots, smart shelves, and RFID, are assisting retailers in becoming more operationally effective and reducing loss.
- Additionally, this increased adoption of Smart Inventory Management (SIM) helps to minimize expenses and drive growth by utilizing data and software to assist in meeting rising consumer demand with the least amount of inventory. Data provides greater insight, allowing to estimate demand and enhance efficiency, while automated technology synchronizes the inventory across numerous sales channels, maximizing revenues.
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Europe Holds Significant Market Share
- The United Kingdom is one of the most significant regions in the global smart shelf market. The major sources of demand in the region include the retail, logistics, and healthcare sectors. The smart shelf market within the region is witnessing various several significant mergers, acquisitions, and investments by the key major players as part of its strategy to improve business and their presence to reach customers and meet their requirements for various applications.
- European retailers, especially Germany, are some of the world's earliest adopters of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) to reduce operations costs as a foundation for retail digitalization. In May 2022, at the week's EuroCIS 2022 trade show, the new IoT platform All-Star was released and introduced by the digital solutions provider Hanshow, with operations in Germany, which is expected to drive Europe's brickandmortar retail into a new era of efficiency and profitability.
- Also, in May 2022, Digety, a fast-growing electronic shelf label company from Germany, partnered with Nowi, which specializes in energy harvesting, to develop solar-powered electronic shelf labels used in retail stores. This collaboration primarily aims to meet the surging market demand to offer retail stores an innovative solution that would further enable them to maximize their yield and manage their overall supply chain processes more effectively.
- Italy has a significant growth rate in the global smart shelf market among the various European countries. It is mainly due to the presence of key major players as well as a higher penetration rate of electronic shelf labels within the entire region.
- The smart shelves market in France is growing rapidly as retailers increasingly adopt smart shelf technology to improve their operations and enhance the customer experience. In France, major retailers such as Carrefour, Auchan, and Casino have already implemented smart shelves in some of their stores, with others likely to follow suit. The market for smart shelves in France is being driven by several factors, including the increasing demand for real-time inventory management and the need for retailers to optimize their operations and reduce waste.
- The growing retail sales volume, along with the rising adoption of smart shelves in various chains of supermarkets, is expected to increase the demand for smart shelves in Europe.
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