Mode Optimization | Get smart about parcel and LTL workloads | Shipium
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Fulfillment Optimization
Mode Optimization
Send every shipment using the right mode
Select the most cost-effective shipping mode that meets your speed thresholds for every order, whether they’re LTL or small parcel.
Cut shipping costs
Prevent overspending on "gray-area" shipments by automatically identifying when LTL is more economical than multiple small parcels, or vice-versa.
Enhance speed & accuracy
Balance cost with speed by evaluating transit times for both modes, ensuring you meet expectations without unnecessary expense.
Improve operational efficiency
Automate complex mode selection and LTL quoting, reducing manual effort and human error in your logistics workflows.
How Shipium powers your LTL and parcel optimizations
Through intelligent comparison and precise costing, Shipium provides the insights needed to choose the right mode for every shipment.
Real-time LTL vs. parcel rating
Shipium offers complete cost and transit comparisons between LTL and small parcel based on shipment details and desired delivery parameters —then recommends the optimal mode.
- Provide origin and destination addresses, shipment and package details (e.g., dimensions, weight, NMFC freight class)
- Specify desired delivery dates and transit times
- Receive a recommended mode and detailed cost breakdowns for both options
Precise LTL costing for complex shipments
For dedicated LTL freight, Shipium provides accurate quotes based on your carrier contracts, specific accessorials, and freight class to support carrier selection.
- Input specific LTL load details
- Specify payment terms and pickup dates
- Factor in complex requirements like hazmat or collect-on-delivery
- Receive total estimated LTL cost, chosen carrier details, and a breakdown of all charges
Supports existing TMS execution
Shipium doesn’t replace your TMS, it works with it. Once the optimal mode and LTL carrier are selected, the platform passes that recommendation to your TMS system for execution.
Seamless integration and data centralization
Integrate your existing systems to centralize shipping data and coordinate across your technology stack.
- API-first architecture for flexible integration
- Consolidated data for process optimization, analytics, and simulation
- Scalable infrastructure that scales to meet demand
Advanced ML modeling for real-world accuracy
Shipium uses robust ML modeling to ensure that transit times and cost comparisons account for real-world conditions, historical performance, and carrier-specific nuances.
- Incorporates your historical data for greater accuracy
- Combines your data with platform-wide data sourced from 350+ million shipments
- Adapts to real-world conditions and carrier performance changes
Proven Results
The improvement Shipium’s customers are seeing
- 4% Conversion Increase: Resulting from offering exact customer promise dates.
- 99.1% Accuracy: During peak season 2024.
- 350+ Million (And Counting): API requests made to Shipium’s Delivery Promise solution.
Complete fulfillment optimization support
Make the right upstream decisions
- Strategy and Planning
- Customer Experience
- Fulfillment Optimization
- Shipping Execution
- Operational Control
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- Simulation - Predict the impact of network changes
- Delivery Promise - Present exact delivery dates to customers
- Delivery Date Enhancement - Improve accuracy by replacing static transit times
- Shipment Tracking - Consolidate and standardize event updates
- Route Optimization - Optimize where to ship from, when to ship, and how to ship
- Packaging Optimization - Choose the right packaging
- Address Validation - Ensure address accuracy
- Mode Optimization - Parcel and LTL rating workflows
- Zone Skipping - Manage complex injection schemes
- Carrier Load Management - Balance discounts, limits, and rules
- Rating Engine - Compare rates and select carriers
- Label Engine - Create and customize shipping labels
- Pack Station - Attendant shipping for warehouses
- Ship-from-Store - Connected shipping for stores
- Dropshipping - Pass decisions to suppliers
- International Shipping - Manage cross-border shipments
- Billing Management - Reconcile invoice discrepancies and bill customers faster
- Shipping Analytics - Analyze any aspect of shipping performance