Reduce High-Volume Shipping Costs

Most e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses overspend on shipping and order fulfillment.

Your data can uncover hidden opportunities to fulfill orders with greater cost-efficiency and reduce transportation costs by as much as 30%.

Features

Improve Pricing Agreements

Most shippers have subpar carrier and 3PL contract optimization agreements due to a lack of benchmarking and marketplace data. We leverage thousands of negotiated contracts and marketplace data points to attain best-in-class pricing for shippers of all sizes and industries.

Offload Auditing for Easy Refund Recovery

Your carrier most likely owes you money. But, identifying eligible refunds is not always obvious, and recovering those credits is a timely process. We handle 100% of the recovery and credit process via our invoice audit & recovery service to ensure every available cent is credited.

Ship Intelligently

Our transportation spend portal provides dynamic, detailed insights into your shipping costs. Spot trends and identify actionable opportunities to reduce spending.

Optimize Freight Movement

Strategic movement of selected freight between different service types and carriers can create significant savings. Some strategies can also improve inbound and outbound transit times.

What others in this industry have said about Shipware

We have worked with other vendors in this space in the past and Shipware stands out because of their industry knowledge of the carrier contract process and their hands-on approach in assisting with contract pricing. Every month, we receive customized shipment reporting and dashboards that are used throughout the company.

Shipware offers exceptional convenience, providing easy access to manage our FedEx bills with the added benefit of rebates, making the billing process both straightforward and cost-effective. The most helpful aspect of Shipware is its ability to streamline the payment process for our FedEx bills, saving us significant time each week. The ease of access means we can manage our payments from anywhere, which is crucial for our busy schedule. Additionally, the rebates provided by Shipware add a financial incentive, making it an even more valuable tool. The platform is user-friendly and integrates seamlessly with our existing systems, which enhances overall efficiency.

We are very pleased with the end result of the negotiations. I had an opportunity to share the initiative results with the Peak Design Leadership Team and it was a smashing success.

What we learned after working with Shipware is that the confidentiality provision in carrier pricing agreements is a well thought-out strategy to prevent shippers from understanding the rates and terms of other shippers since we can’t disclose rates. The Shipware process allowed us to better understand the discounts and concessions we were entitled to without any breach in terms with our delivery partners.

We used to use a broker for our LTL shipments. In theory, it’s a good concept: benefit with deeper discounts by aggregating volume from hundreds of other shippers. However, after working with Shipware, we learned that we could avoid huge broker markups and reduce our LTL costs by forging direct relationships with the carriers. We are saving 18% with the same high-quality LTL providers we had been using previously, and as we grow, WE benefit with even higher discounts – and not the broker. We’re also using Shipware’s TMS to identify the right carriers for the right loads for better time in transit at lower costs. I’ll never use a broker again.

I’m not new to logistics. Been at my job nearly two decades, and I’ve worked with 4-5 parcel invoice audit companies during my career. Shipware’s audit is hands down the best. It delivers significantly greater savings week in and week out, and their spend management reports and portal are tools I actually use to improve my business.

Following Shipware’s complimentary rate assessment, I was anxious to get started. But their proposed gainshare split and term seemed too high. So I spent the better part of the next six months negotiating with UPS on my own, only to get miniscule rate improvements despite a lot of effort. In frustration, I hired Shipware. Within weeks, Shipware’s strategic guidance resulted in significant pricing improvements, and frankly, better responsiveness and relationship from our carrier ever since. If you’re thinking of going it alone, take it from me: you’ll get faster results, deeper savings, save a lot of time and do it right the first time by working with category experts. Shipware earned every nickle!

Shipware stands alone as the best in the business. We conducted an RFP for professional parcel consulting services. Of the six firms that received the bid, 5 of the 6 told me my rates were already optimized. Shipware is the only firm that projected savings, and the actually delivered on the high end of their 7-9% estimate.