Zone skipping is one of the most powerful strategies available for high-volume shippers looking to lower costs, deliver on-time, and secure reliable capacity.
Here’s how Shipium's zone skipping solution helps you implement and manage your entire strategy, from LTL freight to last-mile parcel.
The Core Benefits of Injection Shipping
Here are the most impactful ways that Shipium’s Zone Skipping creates value for shippers.
Bypass High-Cost Zones
The more zones a shipment crosses, and the higher the cost. By utilizing a bulk LTL rate for line-haul transport to a carrier’s sort center, you avoid long-haul parcel services and associated surcharges, allowing you to control costs more effectively.
Manage Carrier Capacity
When a carrier can’t reliably pick up all your packages (ex. during peak season), injection shipping lets you contract an alternative carrier to transport surplus shipments to regional sort centers that still have capacity, ensuring your packages are delivered on-time.
Improve Reliability
When you’re able to define the transit time to the regional injection point, shipment costs and delivery dates become more predictable. This control simplifies your overall planning and helps you meet customer delivery promises with greater confidence.
Shipium Solution Highlights: Configuring and Automating Your Strategy
Shipium transforms zone skipping from a complex manual process into an automated, profitable strategy.
Self-Serve When Configuring Your Strategy
You don't need to involve IT or external vendors to get started. Shipium’s browser-based user interface lets you establish injection shipping schemes easily:
- Define your injection sites, including carriers and address details.
- Manage all necessary contacts and the specific postal codes the injection site can ship to.
- Make changes quickly, without relying on external support.
Optimize Costs with Intelligent Rate Shopping
Injection allows you to pay a lower bulk LTL rate for the line-haul, saving on individual zone fees. Our system ensures you profit from this:
- The platform automatically uses the correct rating address to compare the total cost (LTL freight + last-mile parcel) against direct small parcel shipping.
- We rate shop LTL vs. small parcel to determine the optimal mode for every shipment, ensuring maximum savings on every order.
Seamlessly Mitigate Peak Season Capacity Caps
Proactively manage national carrier shipment caps during high volume periods. If your primary carrier is capped, Shipium enables you to easily contract an alternative carrier to transport your surplus to regional sort centers with capacity.
Full API Control and Flexibility
You can easily leverage your configured injection strategies using Shipium’s modular APIs. By simply setting the includeInjectionProfiles field to "true" in your API requests, Shipium will automatically identify injection opportunities when rate shopping, ensuring you never miss a chance to save money or gain capacity.
Leverage Our Pre-Integrated Carrier Network
Injection shipping depends on flawlessly connecting your line-haul freight with last-mile delivery partners. Shipium’s comprehensive Carrier Network simplifies this process for you:
- Access 60+ carriers and 200+ service methods that handle 99.2% of North American parcel shipments.
- Onboard new national, regional,l or specialty carriers in hours, not days or weeks.
- There are no additional fees for implementing new carriers, giving you the flexibility to build the right network to support injection schemes.
Wrapping Up
Shipium transforms the complexity of zone skipping into a streamlined, powerful lever for profitability. By integrating a flexible configuration layer with dynamic rate shopping and flexible APIs, shippers can not only execute an injection scheme, but intelligently choose the most cost-effective and reliable shipping path for every shipment.
Ready to stop paying long-haul zone fees and start securing predictable delivery capacity? Contact our team here.
Anurag Allena
Anurag Allena
