February 10, 2020

Warehouse Automated Sorting Systems Market Record Stellar CAGR During Forecast Period

Warehousing has traditionally been considered a labor intensive industry. E-commerce has brought rapid technological improvements, paving way toward the fourth industrial revolution in supply chain. In warehouse automated sorting system, sorter is a programmed solution utilized for sorting commodities in a warehouse or distribution center. The solution can be implemented as integrated with warehouse management system or can be deployed as a standalone solution.

Warehouse automation involves robots specially designed and programmed for accomplishment of various material handling tasks. These robots are changing the warehousing industry by modernizing and performing labor intensive tasks, such as loading, unloading, transportation, sorting, picking, storage, and delivery in order to increase productivity and fulfill the rising demands of customers. In India, warehouse automation sorting systems have been in use since many years, though in limited functionalities, capabilities, and performance as compared to the systems deployed in North America or other developed regions.

Various industries are fueling the deployment of warehouse automated sorting systems for efficient sorting of inventories and products. E-commerce retailers are pacing up automation in their warehouses as they race to deliver goods faster than their competitors in the market. Adoption of warehouse automation solutions continues to grow as they help in faster completion of tasks. These solutions also help increase productivity and efficiency of human labor.

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Major drivers behind the growth of the warehouse automated sorting systems market are the ability of these systems to simplify tasks and reduce time consumed in sorting, while boosting accuracy, maintaining consistency, and engaging less workforce on a particular task, thus ensuring cost reduction. Adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning has helped warehouse automated sorting systems achieve this. The warehouse automated sorting systems market is mainly driven by steep competition between online and offline stores. Online retailers try hard to reduce the delivery time of products. However, high initial investment and set-up cost and lack of skilled workforce are hindering the growth of the warehouse automated sorting systems market. In order to increase the adoption of warehouse automated sorting systems, vendors are trying to bring down the cost of the product. The fourth industrial revolution with warehouse robots is expected to serve as an opportunity for the warehouse automated sorting systems market.