New Report by Transport Intelligence Finds Service Parts Logistics Market Becoming Dominated by Global Players.

LONDON -- The Global Service Parts Logistics industry is becoming increasingly dominated by the major integrated express carriers and a small number of '4PLs'. This is just one of the conclusions of a major new report published today by leading logistics research organisation, Transport Intelligence (Ti). The report, Global Service Parts Logistics in the High Tech Sectors, found that as the market increasingly matures, SPL products and services are finally starting to meet the demands of the global high tech companies.

IT Service Providers, PC manufacturers, medical equipment suppliers and Telcos are re-structuring their after sales logistics requirements on a regional or even global basis and, as elsewhere in the logistics market, will be looking for fewer, more sophisticated, logistics service providers to meet their needs.

Foremost to benefit from this on-going consolidation of demand will be the 'integrators': UPS, DHL, FedEx and TNT. They have invested heavily in the sector and the ability to leverage their global networks will allow them to reap rewards in the years ahead.

However, the integrators will not have it all their own way. They will be increasingly challenged by a variety of '4PLs' which design, implement and managing SPL solutions. They have the advantage of being able to buy the best-of-breed logistics and express services in each market, although lack of network control remains a major challenge.

The report's writer, Thomas Cullen, concluded: 'Global integrators and 4PLs will benefit from robust growth in many of the high tech service parts logistics sectors as well increasing their market share from companies which are geographically constrained or hindered by lack of resources. These smaller players risk finding themselves commoditised as the tier of global providers becomes more able to challenge national specialists in their own markets.'

Global Service Parts Logistics in the High Tech Sector contains an analysis of all the major trends impacting on the industry including sections on the market structure and logistics of the Telecommunications and IT Services sectors; profiles of the SPL operations and requirements of the major Telcos and OEMs; global market sizing and forecasts for the major segments as well as profiles of all the major SPL providers.