Advanced Packing Strategy

Cartonization Software Designed to Optimize Fulfillment

Enhance your ecommerce business with Shipium’s cartonization capabilities. Make smarter shipping decisions earlier in your supply chain process, reduce shipping costs, and complement your existing warehouse systems.

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Improve your entire network

Prioritize cartonization throughout your supply chain

Transform your fulfillment process with intelligent package planning from order creation to shipping execution. Shipium’s cartonization software extends beyond the warehouse floor, driving better decisions at every step of your supply chain.

System integration

Our API complements existing enterprise Warehouse Management System (WMS) cartonization while connecting with your broader technology stack. We create a unified data layer that captures real-time package information across locations. This functionality facilitates advanced cartonization insights without disrupting current operations.

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Smart routing

Shipium analyzes multiple scenarios, evaluating inventory levels, carrier constraints, and dimensional costs. This insight powers ideal route selection, balancing speed, expenses, and location-specific features.

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Delivery date generation

Convert complex shipping data into reliable delivery promises. Our platform validates carrier options and shipping speeds against your packaging insights and real-time network status, ensuring every customer promise is achievable.

Improve delivery promises

Apply advanced insights

Implement cartonization solutions that go beyond packing

Cartonization isn’t just about packing boxes efficiently — it’s also about using box size predictions to make strategic decisions. Every customer purchase presents critical order management choices:

Which location can ship most efficiently?
What speeds are achievable?
What will shipping cost?

Without early box size predictions, businesses make decisions affecting their bottom line based on incomplete data from disparate order and warehouse management systems.

Shipium solves this by bridging your systems and applying package dimension intelligence earlier in your shipping workflow. This capability lets you strategically automate the selection of your routing locations, confidently establish shipping expectations for your customers, and predict shipping rates with improved accuracy.

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Margin improvement at every step

Packaging optimization built for growth

You need shipping solutions designed to grow along with your ecommerce business. With Shipium, you can optimize your process with cartonization software that adapts to increasing order volumes, expanding networks, and evolving customer demands.

Improved sourcing decisions

Plan smarter before packing customer purchases. By understanding dimensional requirements during order processing, you can improve shipping paths between stores and warehouses, reducing expenses while improving shipping speed.

Enhance shipment generation

Enhanced warehouse management

Enterprise WMS solutions like Manhattan and Blue Yonder effectively handle picking and packing workflows. Shipium’s cartonization solution improves the fulfillment process by extending cartonization intelligence to early links in your supply chain, informing critical pre-execution planning that improves operational throughput.

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Expanded enterprise-wide integration

Transform cartonization from a tactical task to a strategic advantage. Shipium connects package data at every touchpoint of your supply chain, enabling a consistent, data-driven strategy regardless of the origin.

Reduce shipping costs

Modernized supply chain processes

Shipium’s predictive approach to cartonization refines your entire ecosystem. Make confident promises to customers, choose the best sourcing locations, and control expenses across every shipping path.

Improve supply chain decisions

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Schedule a demo. Our team is happy to answer any questions or provide you with an example of our enterprise shipping capabilities.

Frequently asked questions

What is cartonization?

Cartonization is a logistics process that determines the optimal way to pack and ship items by selecting the most efficient box sizes and configurations for each order, calculating the best way to pack items together, and helping drive efficient shipping throughout your network.

Modern cartonization goes beyond basic box selection to inform strategic shipping improvements, such as carrier rate optimization and inventory placement decisions.

What are the different types of cartonization?

There are six main types of cartonization ecommerce brands can practice at the warehouse level:

Single-item packing allocates one product per box to protect large or fragile items that require special handling
Multi-item strategy combines multiple products in one box to optimize shipping costs and reduce packaging waste
Volume-based packaging uses product dimensions to minimize void space in boxes and maximize shipping efficiency
Weight-based distribution applies load balancing to stay within carrier weight limits
Zone-based organization groups items by warehouse location or shipping destination to streamline the fulfillment process
Rules-based protocol follows specific packing requirements like item compatibility and handling specifications

What are the advantages of automated cartonization?

Automated cartonization tools streamline your shipping activities. By reducing manual decisions, you:

Control spending
Provide intuitive calculations of dimensions and weight
Power data-driven shipment location choices
Minimize empty spaces in trucks
Ensure appropriately packed shipments

The result is faster deliveries, which can increase profitability.

How does packaging optimization benefit your ecommerce business?

An optimized packaging process improves your overall operational performance. With a strong cartonization strategy, you’ll avoid unnecessary charges, free up warehouse space, and reduce shipping damages. Better package selection also leads to more accurate delivery estimates and improved customer satisfaction.

Does Shipium offer standalone cartonization software for ecommerce businesses?

No, Shipium’s cartonization capabilities are part of our comprehensive enterprise shipping platform. We offer cartonization through our Packaging Planner API, which is designed to work alongside existing systems rather than function as a standalone solution.