Insight & Advice from iDrive's team of shipping experts

A food and beverage brand with $13M–$16M in revenue was spending $1.4M a year on shipping — about 25% of order value, well above the F&B industry norm. Twelve months after moving to managed shipping,...

If you're on a self-serve shipping platform and you're spending more time on shipping than on growth, you're at the upgrade decision. Managed shipping isn't a replacement — it's the layer that sits behind your...

Multi-carrier rate shopping sounds like a lookup — get the cheapest rate, print the label. In practice it's a per-shipment optimization across cost, speed, zone, weight, dimensional weight, surcharges, business rules, and carrier capacity. Done...

At 100K+ parcels a month, your shipping line is loud enough that small percentage shifts move material P&L dollars. The brands that compound those savings year over year are the ones that stop running shipping...

A 3PL stores your inventory and packs your boxes. A managed shipping partner picks the carrier, audits the invoice, and absorbs the general rate increase. They overlap on one thing — they both touch shipping...

A Transportation Management System (TMS) is software. Managed shipping is a service that runs on top of a TMS — plus carrier contracts, plus invoice auditing, plus a team. If you have the headcount and...

Managed shipping is the outsourced operation of multi-carrier parcel strategy. It means working with a single partner that holds the carrier contracts, runs the rate-shopping engine, audits invoices, manages claims and the annual general rate...

Managed shipping is the outsourced operation of multi-carrier parcel strategy. Shipppers can get a single partner that holds the carrier contracts, runs the rate-shopping engine, audits every invoice, files claims, plans for annual rate increases,...