Compare → Legacy → Control & Rate Shopping

Shipium automates all foundational criteria.

• Automated ZIP-Zone mappings to determine carrier service areas
• Package-level detail considerations with hazmat, LQ, max size and weight, and other conditions
• Destination compatibility, like USPS for P.O. Boxes or APOs

But Shipium also offers tools for total configuration of eligibility specific to your business.

• Self-service UI for custom business rules to include or exclude carriers based on an enormous amount of options
• Self-service UI to manage carrier capacity limits
• All criteria can be either managed in the self-service console, or stated as parameters at the API level, offering maximum flexibility

Legacy systems typically make them available, too.

• Automated ZIP-Zone mappings to determine carrier service areas
• Package-level detail considerations with hazmat, LQ, max size and weight, and other conditions
• Destination compatibility, like USPS for P.O. Boxes or APOs

Meanwhile, most do not make it easy to tailor eligibility to fit your unique business needs. What about yours?

• Business rules require others to script and install for you, and can't be easily propagated across multiple installations (origins).
• Even basic things like carrier limits are out of your control to easily manage.
• On top of no self-service UI, APIs are not as extensible to allow for maximum customization per call.

Shipium's unique approach improves speed and on-time-delivery.

• Pass a date constraint, either a specific date or a business-days-of-transit SLA
• Shipium uses powerful data science to evaluate dynamic time-in-transit values for all carriers
• In-house TransOps team manages platform wide issues, such as weather delays

Legacy systems can only evaluate delivery dates by calculating static properties, such as carrier-provided SLAs.

• No dynamic modeling of customer-wide transportation data
• No real-time adjustments, like weather delays or facility issues
• Difficult to quickly update details when necessary, like a change to carrier pickup times

Shipium is a centralized carrier network providing unified rate shopping.

• All available carriers are always within scope of a rate shop
• Customers can set up complicated additions, such as injection shipping schemes, that can be considered during rate shopping
• Rate shopping is done virtually in-memory making the process extremely fast, supporting millions of rating requests per week
• In-house TransOps team manages both published and unpublished surcharges on behalf of customers, ensuring fully loaded rate shopping

Logistyx is a roll-up of carrier libraries that aren't integrated.

• Customers are often caught in a situation where multiple carriers are in different libraries and unable to be rate shopped against each other
• Any additional configurations, such as zone skipping, require outside help to set up for you
• The need to stay up to date on published and unpublished surcharges means sometimes you aren't doing fully loaded rate shopping