Enhanced LSP Shipping Services | Shipium
How 3PLs are Modernizing their Shipping Operations
Discover how the most innovative 3PLs in the industry are driving commercial growth, efficiency and scale, and more intelligent controllership through a modern workflow powered by Shipium.
Learn more with our guide
Protect and grow margins
Optimize carrier and service selection, apply customer-specific markups, manage buy/sell rate execution, and gain full margin visibility to identify ways to increase LSP shipping cost savings.
Scale customer operations
Streamline onboarding, dynamically manage business rules for different customers, and manage every aspect of your operations using an intuitive self-service console.
Make data-driven decisions
Make smarter process decisions by connecting your systems, eliminating data silos, and leveraging industry-leading machine learning to generate actionable insights.
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Modern Markup
- Offer customers transparent price and more control
- Support customer pass-through preference on carriers and services
- Execute within configurable and flexible rules, contracts, service levels, limits, etc.
- Manage with fine-grained analysis and control of markup strategies per customer, tied out to invoicing
- Good fit for cost-plus, published-minus, and other markup strategies
Branded Services
- Offer customers branded service levels, like [Your Brand] Standard and [Your Brand] Expedited
- Use Simulation to demonstrate savings to potential customers
- Execute within configurable and flexible rules, contracts, service levels, contracts, limits, etc.
- Manage with fine-grained analysis and control of markup strategies per customer, tied out to invoicing
- Good fit for dynamic pricing strategies
Buy/Sell Rate Management
Build margin by offering customers a sell rate that reflects your desired markup from the buy rate you’re paying to carriers.
Intelligent Service Downgrades
Automate selection of the least expensive service method that will still meet your desired delivery date whenever possible based on Shipium’s ML-powered transit predictions. Shipium's Time-in-Transit modeling
Packaging Optimization
Consistently reduce splits and consolidate orders by leveraging Shipium to choose the optimal packaging for every shipment. Explore the package planner API
Fully-Loaded Rate Shopping
When rate shopping between carriers, ensure that you’re always comparing accurate rates that include surcharges and accessorials — enabling you to reliably select the cheapest rate, every time. About enhanced rate shopping
Business Rule Management
Implement flexible, customer-specific business rules that help to automate and scale LSP shipping operations while catering to unique processes and preferences.
Unique Fulfillment Contexts
Configure the properties of network origins, carrier contracts, injection shipping and more on a per-customer basis to automate process execution as the overall volume you manage grows.
Self-Serve Network Changes
Use an intuitive, self-service console to make changes to carriers, nodes, rules and more to reduce vendor reliance and respond to changing network conditions faster.
Carrier expansion analysis
Determine the cost and performance impacts of adding new carriers to your network so you can make more informed decisions about expansions to your logistics operations.
Proving service value
Show your customers the value of added services (ex. an express shipping option with real time tracking) to build stronger business cases and increase revenue.
Smarter rate negotiation
Negotiate rates and discount tiers that are optimal for your network based on insights on order fulfillment service method performance, most used methods and more.
Cloud-native, API-based platform
Shipium’s API-based solutions for 3PL fulfillment are easily integrated into existing systems and workflows to prevent disruption to your customers’ operations.
- Call Shipium APIs at any stage in the fulfillment process
- Maximize the value of existing technology investments
- Realize value quickly using a cloud-based solution
Dynamic Time-in-Transit Modeling
Shipium’s time-in-transit modeling gives 3PL service providers a truly accurate understanding of transit performance using your unique network properties, constantly monitored macro-conditions, and data from millions of shipments.
- Predict transit time based on data, not static SLAs
- Augment your data with performance insights generated from millions of anonymized shipments
- Rely on models that provide 99.1% OTD accuracy
Shipium self-service console
Use a self-service console to manage every aspect of LSP shipping operations — from business rules to carrier performance reporting.
- Enable operators and eliminate any dependency for network changes
- Easily analyze performance and cost-effectiveness of shipping operations
- Seamlessly manage billing & reconciliation
Expansive pre-integrated carrier network
Shipium’s network of national and regional carriers covers 99.2% of all North American parcel shipments. If a carrier isn’t supported, we’ll add them at no charge.
- Set up new carriers in hours, not weeks
- Get detailed reports on carrier performance
- Use Shipium’s rating engine to ensure that you’re always using the most up-to-date carrier rates
Customer Success Story
"We look to Shipium's flexible and modern technology to support our rapid growth and to help us as we lead the evolution of the 3PL industry."
— Austin Kreinz, Co-founder and CEO, Atomix
Scale to meet any demand
Shipping logistic companies can handle any customer volume without disruption (ex. during peak seasons) using Shipium’s dynamic infrastructure.
Secure your data
Shipium is committed to keeping your data secure. We use bank-level encryption, and we’re SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.
Use a proven logistics approach
Shipium customers save millions annually using our platform. Our approach is validated by analysts and industry-leading partners like Manhattan and Blue Yonder.
Want to see how Shipium works?
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