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We consider the year a success if our customers achieved success. In terms of both numbers and customer happiness, 2024 was a great year.

Despite the continued growth of shipping volumes and resulting complexity of fulfillment networks, many shippers can’t leverage their growth and scale because they don’t have the level of operational control they need to make shipping a growth driver.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Really excited to share that for the second time, Shipium has been named to the Will Reed's Top 100 list.

Packaging is a critical aspect of your fulfillment process, impacting operational efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction. But getting packaging right is easier said than done — vast (and constantly growing) product catalogs, disparate systems, and massive scale all make it difficult to optimize.

Last Thursday, Pitney Bowes announced that its ecommerce logistics unit will be shutting down, which means that shippers who rely on its parcel delivery services will need to make major operational adjustments in the coming weeks.