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5 Benefits of Effective Carrier Contract Management
Expenses, service inconsistencies, and compliance risks can quickly erode ecommerce shipping operators’ profit margins and customer satisfaction. Without sufficient oversight of how your mix of carriers operates, your business can miss out on potential cost-saving opportunities, not to mention open itself up to potential legal liabilities.
How Shipium’s Universal Rules Engine Streamlines Business Rule Management
Business rules play a pivotal role in ensuring shipments are handled correctly and cost-effectively. However, for companies who still rely on legacy parcel shipping technology, managing rules is a complex and time-consuming process. In this post, we’ll explore the common challenges shippers face when it comes to managing rules with traditional systems, and how Shipium’s Rules Engine addresses these issues. We’ll also highlight the key functionality that makes Shipium’s Rules Engine a game-changer for modern shippers.
An Overview of Shipium’s ML-Powered Time-in-Transit Modeling
With the bar for digital customer experience now higher than ever, retailers are increasingly focused on creating a competitive edge through faster, more transparent, lower-cost shipping. But without the right understanding of transit performance, it’s impossible to actually make promises you know you can keep — which leaves many shippers in the position of having to decide between optimizing for customer experience at the expense of margins, or vice-versa.
How Last Mile Delivery Impacts Your Shipping Cost
When studying ecommerce leaders like Amazon, it becomes clear that focusing on the customer journey is the path to scaling growth. Last mile delivery is the stage of your supply chain that puts your product directly into the hands of your customers. Getting it right can significantly impact customer experience, driving increased sales. How can optimizing your final mile logistics elevate the overall customer experience, and how does that impact your bottom line? Let’s explore its importance and the cost-saving benefits a well-optimized process can offer to your business and customers.
How to Avoid a Split Shipment
Attempting to avoid a split shipment for multi-SKU orders has become a white whale for many ecommerce shippers — and with good reason. Splitting too many multi-SKU shipments can have one of the most significant negative impacts on your business's margins. Let’s explore the top strategies to minimize single orders becoming multi-piece shipments upstream in your ecommerce supply chain and ways to manage costs downstream if splitting an order is unavoidable.
7 Key Steps to Efficient Parcel Spend Management
Ecommerce parcel cost represents a large portion of the expenses that chip away at your profits. With rising carrier rates and evolving customer demands, optimizing spending has become vital to remaining competitive. Let’s explore seven steps you can take to implement more effective parcel spend management for your business.
Parcel Forum 2024 - Actionable AI Presentation (Video Recording)
Parcel Forum 2024 was a great experience. The community has a positive outlook on the future and is eager for genuinely good ideas that will change their businesses.
How to Reduce Shipping Costs Early in the Parcel Fulfillment Process with Shipium
Enterprise shippers who are thinking about how to reduce shipping costs face an increasingly uphill battle. Between the need for faster deliveries, fluctuating carrier costs, and unprecedented network complexity, keeping costs down is much easier said than done.
So Much Growth: Recapping an Incredible 2024 Heading into Peak Season
Shipium saw so much incredible evolution over the last several months that sometimes it's tough to stop, take a breath, and observe the changes.
Shipium Named to Will Reed’s Top 100 Class of 2024
Really excited to share that for the second time, Shipium has been named to the Will Reed's Top 100 list.
