Warehouse Services: Content, Types, Development Trends

Abstract

The article analyzes the content of warehouse services as a special type of business services that have specific characteristics and common types of services. Individual components of warehouse services are described: logistics, marketing, information, credit and financial, and production. The content of the activities of service organizations, operators of warehouse services, is released. The study highlights the growth of the market, changes in the structure of demand, insufficient development of warehouse outsourcing and complex warehouse services as the main trends in the warehouse services market. The evaluation of the current condition of the warehouse property market that determines the quantity and quality of storage services, the focus is on the development of new warehouses formats (wholesale distribution centers, self-storage warehouses and warehouses of “last mile”), a significant part of “custom” warehouses marked as a trend.