Simulation | Predict future decisions before making them | Shipium

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Get insights in hours, not weeks

Quickly understand the impacts of operational changes you’re considering — whether it’s greater use of ground services, adding a carrier, or optimizing volume for discount tiers.

Optimize for your business goals

Drive continuous improvement by using data from executed shipments, Shipium’s platform-wide data, and industry-leading ML.

Improve strategic planning

Strategic planning should rely on data-driven insight, not assumptions. Test your hypotheses quickly and create faster, more iterative decision-making cycles.

Justify operational changes

Make a business case for network changes when simulation results meet your desired thresholds for performance improvement, cost reduction, or both.

How Shipium Simulation takes you from what-if to what’s next

Between faster setup, intuitive insights, and guidance from our expert customer success team, here’s how we ensure that your simulations are a success.

Simple setup, fast execution

Provide us with your historical data and define your unique network properties like carriers, rates, origins, and volume limits. Then, apply your simulation constraints, run predictive scenarios, and get to answers quickly.

Change carriers and/or rates
Apply different delivery date constraints
Test new rule configurations
Adjust volume limits
Much, much more

We also offer templates for common simulations to further accelerate the process.

Easy consumption and analysis

Insights are presented using intuitive reports and data visualizations that make results easy to understand and act on.

Guidance from experts

Our team is here to help you through the process, having run dozens of simulations a quarter for enterprise customers. Assisted setup and use case guidance ensure that you get the outcomes you’re looking for.

Built on AI + ML, not hype

Real data science has been at the core of what we do since the beginning — built on the same principles that revolutionized Amazon’s supply chain.

It starts with data

Predictions are only as good as the data that informs them. Shipium accounts for your historical data, combines it data sourced from 350+ million shipments, and accounts for real-world conditions like weather events and carrier bulletins.

Your network properties are represented

Models are trained to generate predictions based on your carriers, pull times, rates, origins, business rules and more.

Models for essential use cases

Shipium’s models are tailored to unique use cases like delivery promise presentation, origin selection, and optimal carrier selection — our data science team is also constantly testing new models to add to the platform.

Dedicated data science team

Our data science leaders and engineers bring deep expertise from places like MIT and Amazon, and apply that experience to solve real-world problems for shippers.

Use Cases

Intelligent Downgrades

See when cheaper service methods would have delivered just as fast (or faster)

Simulate executed shipments using non-guaranteed methods like FedEx or UPS Ground
View impacts to transit times and costs to meet your desired speed:cost ratio
Continuously reduce what it costs to hit promised delivery dates

Dynamic Volume Allocation

Balance contractual obligations with pure date + rate shopping

Analyze which shipments should be sent via a specific carrier to meet a commitment at the lowest cost
Rebalance volume when there are cost saving opportunities that still meet desired thresholds
Compare differences between pure cost-based rate shopping and rate shopping with minimum limit requirements

GRI Increases

Understand how upcoming rate increases will impact costs

Approach contract negotiations armed with your knowledge of expected cost increases by lane
Plan for volume shifts and changes to origin selection based on new cost structures

Faster Promise Dates

Know how more competitive promise dates would impact your costs

Present more competitive delivery dates to customers whenever they meet your desired cost threshold
Keep pace with (or beat) your competitors on delivery speed

Branded Shipping Options 3PL

Meet your promise dates at the lowest cost

Offer custom shipping options with SLAs and find the cheapest carrier and service that will meet them
Adjust SLAs when different transit times are predicted to drive better business outcomes

Case Study

How Simulation improved decision velocity for a Fortune 500 Retailer

Between faster setup, intuitive insights, and guidance from our expert customer success team, here’s how we ensure that your simulations are a success.