Category: Shipping

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 direct contract with FedEx or UPS gives you one carrier's volume tier, one set of surcharges, and one capacity bucket. Managed shipping gives you 12+ carriers under contracts negotiated against $5B of aggregated volume,...

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...

If your shipping is a pass-through line on your invoices, it's costing you money you'll never see. The 3PLs that turn shipping into a profit center are the ones that get access to elite-tier carrier...

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...

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,...

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. Shippers 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,...

A great checkout experience can make or break customer loyalty. And with something so powerful, you need to ensure you're offering the right shipping options to give your shoppers what they want.

There are ways to make carrier selection easier without putting your margins at risk. Instead of just focusing on what works best for your business, factor in customer satisfaction. That way, you’re not just winning customers but keeping them, too.