Insight & Advice from iDrive's team of shipping experts

Warehouse Republic is a third-party logistics (3PL) provider that runs deliberately lean. Founder Mark Taylor's team fulfills for a mixed book of customers, some shipping 150-pound oversize items, others shipping small bottles. For most of...

Carrier orchestration is the active, continuous operation of a multi-carrier shipping setup: rate-shopping every shipment, applying business rules, managing capacity, handling exceptions, monitoring service levels, escalating claims, and planning around annual rate increases. It goes...

Adding carriers and running a multi-carrier shipping platform are two different decisions, and only the second one reliably pays. Diversifying carriers creates the opportunity: different carriers win different zones, package types, and service levels. A...

A multi-carrier Transportation Management System (TMS) is a software platform that consolidates rate shopping, label generation, tracking, and billing across multiple carriers, and in iDrive's model it's operated by a dedicated team rather than self-served...

If you're running an RFP for a managed shipping or multi-carrier TMS partner, the right questions matter more than the right pitch. Below are 27 questions iDrive Logistics thinks every buyer should ask — including...

The iDrive Logistics platform chooses optimal carriers for the parcels going through our network based on location, service level requirements, parcel profile, time of the year, and more. However, for shippers who don't have automated...

When WMS rate shopping happens inside the pack-and-ship workflow, margin stops leaking between systems. Here's what it takes to close that seam.

Most teams shop rates based on what they see upfront, even though the cost‑prediction engine and the billing system are disconnected — which is why the invoice so often fails to match the estimate. The...