Multi Carrier Shipping Software
Shipium helps modern shippers diversify and manage their carrier networks, optimizing transit times and reducing parcel spending.
Customer Success Story
We have experienced outsized growth on Saks.com over the last two years. As the premier luxury ecommerce platform in North America, it’s critical that we ensure our delivery experience matches our elevated shopping experience. Shipium has helped with ensuring fast and reliable shipping, while dramatically improving our cost structures
RJ Cilley
Chief Operating Officer
How Shipium’s multi carrier shipping software works
Shipium gives enterprise shippers a competitive advantage with multi carrier shipping software that manages a diverse carrier network.
Management and configuration
Through self-service tools, users can easily edit or add a carrier, update rates and surcharges, and upload new contracts without the IT hassle found with legacy logistics software. For those who prefer assistance, Shipium’s support team is ready to help with setup. New carriers immediately propagate across all locations, ensuring a unified shipping strategy.
Pre-execution analysis
Leveraging your existing systems, the Shipium multi carrier shipping platform conducts a comprehensive pre-execution analysis. This process includes checking inventory availability across all fulfillment centers, generating speed and cost projections for various shipping options, and creating optimized fulfillment plans.
Shipment-by-shipment execution
Shipium takes a data-driven approach to selecting the best carrier for each shipment, balancing cost and service quality to meet the delivery promises made to your customer.
It’s a three-step process:
- Gate Shopping: Check carrier eligibility based on product restrictions, geographical limitations, and volume limits, ensuring compliance with carrier-specific regulations and considering business rules that may affect carrier selection.
- Date Shopping: Calculate precise time-in-transit estimates considering carrier history, network status, and seasonal variations. These calculations provide accurate delivery date estimates.
- Rate Shopping: Compare fully loaded rates across eligible carriers, including all surcharges and hidden fees, and consider domestic and international shipping options with real time rate updates. This comprehensive analysis identifies the most cost-effective option without compromising quality.
Final carrier selection
Shipium’s multi carrier shipping solution selects the optimal carrier, balancing customer promises with operational efficiency and ensuring the best possible outcome for each shipment.
Optimize shipping with multi carrier software
The idea that there is a single best shipping rate for all situations couldn’t be further from the truth. As your business grows and your volumes increase, it’s key to find the right rate for each and every shipment.
Different carriers excel in different regions. This variability means that the most cost-effective and efficient shipping solution often involves leveraging multiple carriers.
A multi-carrier network allows you to optimize your processes on a shipment-by-shipment basis, finding the perfect balance between cost, speed, and service quality for each package.
Handle multi carrier shipping with Shipium
With the Shipium multi carrier shipping software, high-volume operators reduce expenses, minimize delivery windows, and ensure a customer experience that builds brand loyalty.
Cost optimization
Centralizing the management of a multi-carrier network with Shipium automates your logistics workflow, making the task of choosing the right carrier for every shipment easy.
Integrating with your existing systems, Shipium’s ML-powered Time-in-Transit Model creates accurate estimated delivery dates, considering factors such as package dimensions, carrier performance, and warehouse locations. This data-driven logistics planning helps you reduce your delivery costs by at least 12% on average.
Improved delivery speed and service
Powered by ML and paired with our Fulfillment Engine, our multi carrier shipping software optimizes your logistics process, accurately routing orders through your network. With configurable real-time decision-making that leverages intelligent upgrades and downgrades where necessary, Shipium can increase your delivery speed by several days on average.
Risk management and business continuity
Relying on a single carrier is an assumed risk for your business, leaving your shipping operations vulnerable to service disruptions, increased carrier costs, and dissatisfied customers.
With a pre-integrated carrier network that currently delivers 99.2% of all domestic parcel shipments nationwide, the Shipium multi carrier shipping solution provides the flexibility needed to overcome macro-environmental changes and keep your delivery promise.
Frequently asked questions about multi carrier shipping solutions
What is a multi carrier shipping solution?
A multi carrier shipping solution is a technology that integrates services from multiple carriers, from national to regional last mile delivery providers, into one platform. This system allows businesses to:
- Compare rates: View pricing across every connected carrier to find the most cost-effective option for each shipment.
- Generate shipping labels: Create carrier-compliant labels from one system instead of logging in to each carrier separately.
- Track packages: Follow shipments across all carriers in one view rather than checking each carrier’s portal.
- Manage shipping services from a single interface: Add carriers, update settings, and oversee shipping operations in one place.
A centralized multi carrier platform streamlines operations by offering a single interface to access and manage delivery services.
What are the advantages of a multi carrier shipping platform?
A multi carrier shipping platform lets high-volume shippers choose the best carrier for every shipment instead of sending all their volume through one provider. The main advantages include:
- Cost savings through rate comparison: The platform prices every eligible carrier on your negotiated contracts and selects the lowest-cost option that still meets the delivery promise.
- Increased flexibility when selecting transportation partners: Regional and last-mile carriers often beat national carriers on cost and transit time within their footprint, so a broader network gives you more options on every lane.
- Improved efficiency with automated processes: Carrier selection, rating, and label creation run automatically for every order, which removes manual decisions and the errors that come with them.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction with more shipping options: Matching each order to the fastest carrier that fits its cost target shortens delivery windows and helps you keep the delivery promise.
- Reduced reliance on a single carrier to mitigate risks: Spreading volume across carriers protects your operation from service disruptions, capacity limits, and rate increases from any one provider.
With Shipium, high-volume shippers compare every carrier on their negotiated contracts, route each shipment to the best option automatically, and add or adjust carriers in our platform console without waiting on IT.
What should I look for in multi carrier software?
When evaluating multi carrier software companies, look for solutions that:
- Integrate with your existing platforms: Look for API integrations to your OMS, WMS, TMS, and ERP rather than a platform that replaces them. An API-first approach improves carrier decisions without disrupting the systems your operation depends on.
- Provide room for scalability: Check how well the vendor’s pre-integrated carrier network covers your shipping regions and how fast it can add new carriers.
- Offer excellent customer support: Ask who maintains each carrier connection when a carrier changes its API or label format.
- Allow flexible business rules: Confirm your team can set and change carrier rules by destination, weight, delivery promise, or product type without an IT ticket.
- Include core shipping features: Verify that the platform offers real-time carrier rates based on your negotiated contracts, with surcharges included. The software should also handle automated label generation for the selected carrier and standardize shipment tracking across every carrier.
With Shipium Shipping Management System, enterprise shippers rate every carrier on their own contracts, generate labels automatically, and update carrier rules in the Shipium Console without waiting on IT.
What is the best software for multi-carrier shipping?
When selecting the best multi carrier shipping software, your decision will also largely depend on the shipping volume your business is handling or forecasting over the next year.
Suppose you’re an enterprise business dealing with large volumes of shipments. In that case, you may need to consider a robust solution like Shipium, which can complement your existing systems (ERP, OMS, WMS, or TMS) to enhance delivery efficiency while driving down delivery costs by at least 12%.
Does the Shipium technology work with all major carriers?
Yes, Shipium’s multi carrier shipping software works with all major carriers and a large network of last-mile shipping services. In fact, carriers in our network handle 99.2% of all domestic parcel shipping.
With our pre-integrated network, you can manage:
- Multi-origin shipping: Minimize costs by strategically managing shipments from the most efficient locations, including warehouses, retail stores, or distribution centers.
- Split shipments: Optimize delivery times by intelligently determining when to split or consolidate orders.
- International shipping: Expand your customer reach with support for US-Canada cross-border shipping.
What systems can Shipium's multi carrier software integrate with?
Taking an API-first approach, Shipium integrates with and bridges gaps between your existing legacy systems, including warehouse management systems (WMS), transportation management systems (TMS), order management systems (OMS), and enterprise resource planning tools (ERP).
Our supply chain partners are:
- Manhattan Associates: Comprehensive supply chain and commerce platform for warehouse management, transportation planning, and order orchestration.
- Blue Yonder: AI-powered supply chain platform that optimizes inventory and distribution through advanced forecasting and planning capabilities.
- Körber Supply Chain: End-to-end warehouse and supply chain management suite designed to streamline fulfillment and material handling.
- Kibo Commerce: Composable commerce platform unites with headless logistics.
- SAP: Integrated ERP system connecting key business functions, including supply chain, procurement, and logistics.
- Oracle: Cloud-based platform offering solutions for transportation management, global trade, and warehouse operations.
- IBM: AI-driven supply chain solution focused on logistics optimization, enhanced visibility, and data-driven decision-making.
Shipium connects to the WMS, OMS, TMS, and ERP you already run, so you can switch from legacy shipping technology without disrupting fulfillment.
How long does it take to implement Shipium?
Unlike legacy shipping technology, which can take up to six months to implement, Shipium’s multi carrier software integrates with your existing systems in as little as two months.
Our process includes requirements gathering, data mapping, API integration, thorough testing, and a dedicated hypercare phase post-launch. We ensure this efficient timeline to minimize disruption to your ongoing operations.
Can Shipium’s software handle peak season shipping demands?
Yes. Shipium’s multi carrier shipping software helps businesses handle peak-season shipping demands, helping them to prepare for higher order volumes and carrier delays.
Shipium gives you peak season confidence with:
- Intelligent fulfillment management to optimize warehouse capacity, reducing bottlenecks and minimizing split shipments
- Real-time tracking and proactive issue management to mitigate disruptions caused by carrier strikes or external market conditions
- Comprehensive logistics insights using shipping analytics
- AI-driven transit modeling, which helped Shipium customers achieve an average of 95.4% on-time delivery during the 2024 peak season