Shipping Rate Optimization
Automate carrier selection to reduce shipping costs while meeting customer expectations
Let's Talk!Automating carrier rate selection is a win-win for you and your customers
When warehouse employees manually compare shipping rates by having to access multiple shipping portals, it wastes time during fulfillment and opens you up to losing money on shipping. Often, companies end up with incorrect rates and have to absorb shipping costs rather than put those costs on their customers when doing it manually.
With ShipHawk’s automated rate shopping, you can get accurate shipping rates in real-time, before your customers have even completed their orders. Optimize order-level routing across carriers (using your own negotiated rates), service levels, and modes to guarantee the lowest-cost option that meets customer’s delivery expectations.
Packing optimization at the point of rating
Without an advanced cartonization solution to determine packing materials, you aren’t getting the most accurate rates for each order. ShipHawk combines rating with its Smart Packing algorithm to make the packing process efficient and accurate by selecting the best pallet or carton for each order, calculating final packed weights and dimensions, and accurately determining the packing and shipping rates in real-time, rather than waiting for manual shipping rates. ShipHawk uses your product dimensions and weights and can provide accurate rates based on available packaging at each warehouse, before the customer has even purchased the product.
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Rate parcel and LTL in one system
Packing optimization doesn’t end at small orders. With ShipHawk’s multi-modal rating, you can automatically determine the best way to pack items in an order that includes both parcel and LTL (less-than-truckload). By factoring weight, dimensions, availability of packing materials, and how fast an order needs to get to the customer, ShipHawk will determine whether or not the order should be palletized or packed into small parcels. Additionally, this process can rate mixed products together, combining parcel and LTL for one order if needed so your warehouse team doesn’t have to use multiple shipping portals just to book one order.
Choosing shipping origins with multi-origin rating
Multi-origin rating from ShipHawk enables you to determine the best warehouse to ship from by looking at your available inventory and the distance between your end customer and the warehouses.
ShipHawk also lets you create customized rules to manage unique fulfillment scenarios based on your individual business requirements. For example: let’s say it’s the holiday season and orders are increasing rapidly. You can change the default shipping origin to the largest warehouse with more inventory to avoid backorders and delayed shipments.
Customizable rating rules for your specific needs
ShipHawk’s robust rating rules can automate set rules and streamline fulfillment processes. With ShipHawk’s rules engine, companies can create custom rules including but not limited to:
- Markup or markdown rates
- Filter the carrier you would like to see
- Filter the different carriers services you would like to see
- Create your own custom shipping methods
Want to automate carrier audit and reconciliation? ShipHawk Audit has you covered →
