This IDC Perspective provides IDC Retail Insights’ key takeaways from Shoptalk Europe 2024, held in Barcelona, which gathered over 10,000 retail professionals to explore the future of retail. The event emphasized the critical role of technology in transforming the retail landscape to meet shifting market…

This research report provides actual IT spending (2022, 2023) and forecasts (2024–2028) in the Japan IT market by industry sector, employee size, and annual turnover. This research report analyzes 21 industry sectors, five employee size and product sectors each, and four annual turnover segments, and…

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides technology suppliers and buyers with insight into technology trends influencing supply chain planning (SCP). Specifically, this perspective provides an overview of IDC’s insights and data on the technologies, industry dynamics, and trends influencing the supply chain planning applications…

How will the transport management systems (TMS) market in Europe and North America evolve in 2024 and beyond? Berg Insight forecasts that the value of this market in the two regions will grow at a CAGR of 11.5 percent from € 2.8 billion in 2023…

The Supply Chain Planning (SCP) market in 2024 is marked by improved alignment between planning and execution, driven by integrations across planning, logistics, and warehouse systems. This alignment ensures accurate information flow and seamless execution of supply chain plans. Vendors are introducing generative AI interfaces…

This IDC study classifies domestic industries into 21 industry sectors, including 17 categories of businesses, and 4 categories of nonbusiness: central government, local governments, education, and consumers. It also presents the actual (2023) and forecast (2024-2028) 3rd Platform spending in each sector. Read the report here…

Mass manufacturing based on economies of scale and low cost is giving way to an era of mass customization based on economies of scope. Manufacturers must augment the legacy manufacturing execution system (MES) of record. This is necessary to accommodate the content and embedded analytics…