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...