Put your business in the driver’s seat. Reduce shipping costs and optimize carrier contracts.

Level the playing field with large carriers by accessing the benchmarking data, carrier pricing analytics, and advanced data modeling technologies. Understand best-in-market rates and gain new insights into complex terms and conditions, shipping rates, fees, and surcharges. We coach and mentor you through every phase of your contract renewal and midterm negotiations. We provide information and strategies to secure better bids, lower shipping costs and save you as much as 30%. We scour your contracts to ensure no unfavorable legal language restricts your ability to protect your business interests. Finally, Shipware supports you throughout the entire term of your contract, including both regular business reviews and proactive monitoring to ensure your contract remains optimized as long as Shipware is involved.

Our team of 3PL experts connect third-party fulfillment providers with companies that need fulfillment services. They ensure both sides are positioned to win by optimizing carrier rate structures to meet the needs of the 3PLs and the companies they serve. In fact, many of the pre-vetted 3PLs in our network leverage our carrier expertise to optimize their own shipping costs, keeping costs low for their customers, and outperforming their promised SLAs. Shipware’s 3PL Fulfillment Optimization process creates true win-win-win outcomes.

The large traditional carriers are far from the only post-pandemic shipping options. Shipware can introduce you to a broad range of regional and other alternative carriers that, if used correctly, often minimize supply chain risk, improve performance, and reduce cost, all at the same time. We also help you balance your routing criteria to avoid unintentional contractual breaches or rate penalties. When it comes to domestic and international shipping cost reduction expertise, our Shipware team and partners help with every aspect of onboarding new carriers and confidently maintaining a multi-carrier strategy that delivers the greatest advantage for your business.

When you ship thousands of packages per week, it’s nearly impossible to identify all the potential refunds your carrier might owe you. Left unclaimed, the guarantees expire quickly. Shipware’s Invoice Auditing and Refund Recovery teams use our proprietary shipping audit software to ensure you get the refunds you deserve when your carrier fails to meet their delivery guarantee, all without tying up your team with tedious and time-consuming paperwork.

Save time, reduce labor costs, and avoid late fees by automating weekly carrier payments through Shipware’s Parcel Pay program, a necessity in your supply chain management. The weekly frequency of the carrier invoices can pose a special challenge for AP teams that process most other bills on a monthly basis. We take the burden off your team, consolidating and reconciling payments across multiple accounts and carriers. This ensures not only accurate but also on-time payments. Our solution also includes custom general ledger coding to automatically assign costs to the proper business unit, streamlining and improving the accuracy of your accounting.

Knowledge is power. But wading through the overwhelming quantities of data in your Warehouse Management System (WMS) reports and carrier invoices presents its own time-consuming challenge. Even if you can keep your data up to date, determining which data is actually valuable is its own hurdle. Our reporting portal simplifies the task with dynamic, interactive charts that highlight meaningful shipping trends, offer insights into your supply chain, flag problem areas, and highlight opportunities to reduce your shipping rates and delivery costs. Easily shift from high-level insights to a granular understanding of your shipping cost variables across services and surcharges by simply drilling down into the charts. With on-demand access to your shipment data through customized, intuitive dashboards, you can make critical, cost-saving decisions faster than ever before.