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Designing Third Party Billing with Ease
Millions of packages are shipped each day by many carriers, including yours as a 3PL shipper. But with multiple customers, not all shipments are handled the same way between you and the carrier. Sometimes a shipment belongs to your contracted account with a carrier, but sometimes the customer requires their account and rates to be utilized. It's a surprisingly complex problem, especially when trying to scale automation.
Improving the Control of Carrier Selection
Picking the cheapest, fastest, and most accurate shipping method per delivery is a hard problem because of several complicating factors being evaluated in real-time. Getting the calculation wrong will prompt shipment overpayments, delays, and unhappy customers.
Shipium Named in Built In's 2023 Best Places to Work List
Built In’s esteemed Best Places to Work Awards, now in its fifth year, honor companies across numerous categories. The program honors companies – remote, hybrid and in-office – with the best total rewards packages across the U.S. and in the following tech hubs: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington DC.
How to Thrive During Economic Downturn: Amazon's Playbook
The downturn is real and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
Podcast: Operations Is the Other Half of the Ecommerce Brain
When Amazon launched their Buy With Prime offering late April 2022, our friends at FutureCommerce asked me to hop on the podcast to share what Shipium thought of the announcement. With the industry focused on the one-click-checkout war, I proposed a different take: This was a very big deal to tech-forward 3PLs who compete against Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA).
How Retailers Can Win Back Leverage in the Great Carrier War
Consider a three-sided relationship between retailers, carriers, and technology providers.
Shipium Makes Logistics Series a History Raising $27.5M
Today we are announcing some historical news. Our latest funding round, a $27.5M Series A led by Insight Partners, is the largest venture-backed Series A in logistics SaaS history.
AI in Supply Chain: Shipium at TransformX Panel
On October 7th, CEO Jason Murray got a chance to speak on a panel discussion at the annual TransformX event put on my ScaleAI.
Freight Waves TV Interview: Simplifying Logistics
Last week I had a chance to sit down with Andrew Cox from FreightWaves TV to chat about Amazon's early days and what learnings from that period can be applied today for everyone else who isn't Amazon.
Supporting the Women In Retail (WIR) June Virtual Exchange
We are big fans of the community building efforts by Diane, Kristina, and the rest of the Women In Retail organization, which is why we were excited by the opportunity to support them by sponsoring their June Virtual Exchange.
