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Shipium Recognized as Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide™ for Multi-Carrier Parcel Management Solutions

"Optimize and consolidate parcel shipments by using an MCPMS as a complementary solution to the TMS and/or WMS, ERP or OMS, or as a transportation solution for shippers that primarily use parcel as their mode of transportation."

— 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Multi-Carrier Parcel Management Solutions

Key findings of the report include:

  • Global parcel delivery volumes continue to grow, despite macroeconomic challenges and significant regional variations.
  • Issues around flexibility and customer experience continue to grow in tandem with demand, despite inflationary pressures and the partial reduction in delivery capacity constraints. These increases, spurred by multichannel retail and B2B e-commerce, are unlikely to reduce.
  • Companies are faced with increased parcel delivery costs, driven by fuel and labor cost inflation, and shippers often lack the tools to optimize their transportation spend effectively.
  • Most providers of ERP, transportation management systems (TMS), order management systems (OMS) and warehouse management systems (WMS) do not specialize in parcel capability. Rather, they partner with a noncompeting multicarrier parcel management solution (MCPMS) to support their customers. This leaves users with a gap in capability and need for a stand-alone solution.
Gartner, Market Guide for Multicarrier Parcel Management Solutions, Simon Tunstall, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, 27 May 2024. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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In our opinion, Shipium's modern approach to managing the complexities of shipping give customers unique command of their operations. Key benefits of Shipium include:

  • Customer Focus - Shipping should be in service of the customer, with delivery being fast, affordable, and consistently accurate to the promise.
  • Flexibility - Time-to-value is the best in the industry due to the flexible nature of our APIs making implementation a breeze.
  • Automation - Escape the tyranny of static spreadsheets or legacy technology. Scale your operational decisions instead.
  • Optimization - Optimize decisions along the entire supply chain to reduce the highest operating expense on the P&L (shipping).

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