Featured in Rejuvenation – 06-2013

Third party logistics specialists target solar

Logistics and supply chain: As margins in the solar industry remain under pressure and consolidation gathers pace, companies are looking even harder for ways to cut costs. Aside from technical specifications and labor costs, experts claim there are huge savings to be made in solar equipment logistics and after sale service, especially as traditional business to business models are eroded by bankruptcies, mergers and more sales directly to end-users as manufacturers go downstream.

In many mature industries peripheral activities are hived off to expert providers, while the core manufacturing or service remains within the company. Traditionally in the solar industry, once the panels, inverters, and other solar equipment left the factory, it then moved into the hands of shippers, and then on to distributors and retailers. Now however, …

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