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Shipium named in 2026 Gartner® MCPMS Market Guide
Leave legacy tech behind.
Shipium unifies execution, optimization, and customer experience into a single AI-driven engine. Stop fighting your tech stack and start automating your growth.
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Customers who traded Legacy Tech for Shipium
Why Enterprises are Making the Switch
| Typical Legacy System | ||
|---|---|---|
| Technology & Infrastructure | Modern Operating Model = Flexible | Legacy Tech = Inflexible |
| Product deployment model | Multi-Tenant Cloud | VM, Private Datacenter |
| Multi-tenant architecture | ||
| Cloud native / cloud agnostic | ||
| Backups and disaster recovery included | ||
| Carrier Network | Core + Integrated Network + Data | The Basics |
| Label and manifesting APIs | ||
| Single, pre-integrated carrier library | ||
| Add carriers via self-service console | ||
| Cost to add new carriers | $0 | $5,000 |
| Workflow Management | Modern Design, Gives You Control | Nothing Included, Expensive to Change |
| Ratecard management via self-service console | ||
| Surcharge management via self-service console | ||
| Business rule management via self-service console | ||
| Carrier capacity and cost limit management via self-service console | ||
| Origin management via self-service console (e.g. setting carrier pickup times) | ||
| Setup and manage injection shipping (zone skipping) via self-service console | ||
| Self-service label augmentation capabilities | ||
| Tenant separation and management (3rd party accounts or brands) | ||
| 3rd party billing via self-service console | ||
| Hot failover rules | ||
| Single sign-on and enterprise administration and security | ||
| Rate Shopping | Gartner Stage 5 Maturity (The Highest) | Barely the Basics |
| Virtualized carrier rating engines | ||
| Fully loaded rate shopping across all engines | ||
| Dynamic (real-time) time-in-transit date shopping | ||
| Managed carrier eligibility on your behalf (eliminates your burden to setup the basics) | ||
| Enterprise-grade speed and response of APIs | ||
| Proactive scaling up and down to handle seasonality volumes | ||
| Tracking | At Parity | At Parity |
| Track & Trace across carrier network | ||
| Webhooks or APIs | ||
| Normalization of status messaging across carriers | ||
| Export of statuses and events | ||
| Network performance reporting (carrier/origin) | ||
| Post-purchase estimated delivery dates | ||
| Data Leverage | Unique Leverage to Improve Efficiency | Legacy Tech with No Data Strategy |
| ML / AI data modeling (dynamic time in transit) | ||
| Aggregated carrier data across platform | ||
| Real-time predictive delivery dates (not carrier SLAs) for use during rate shopping | ||
| Reporting and analytics of your fulfillment network, including selection visibility / auditing | ||
| Company & Support | Zero Customer Churn | Non-Responsive after Acquisition |
| 24/7 premium support included in subscription | ||
| In-house TransOps team managing macro conditions across network (surcharges, weather, delays, etc.) | ||
| Strategic Products | Focused on Your Future Needs | Zero Innovation or Growth |
| Network “what if?” simulations | ||
| Fulfillment order routing | ||
| Split reduction optimization | ||
| Pre-purchase estimated delivery dates | ||
| Package sizing API | ||
| Pricing & ROI | Predictable, Great ROI | Unpredictable, Poor ROI |
| Pricing Model | Flat SaaS Subscription per Product | License Fee + Maintenance Subscription |
| Professional service costs (support, custom work, etc.) | $0 | - $5,000 per carrier added - $2,000 - $10,000 for any operational changes required, customers average several requests per year - $4,000 to get data exports or reports |
| Average parcel spend reduction across customers | 12% | < 1% |
| Average payback period | < 1 Month | > 1 Year |
Move Beyond Legacy Logic. Embrace Shipping AI.
Don’t let the old way of shipping stall your growth and eat your margins. Consolidate fragmented point solutions into a single, AI-driven platform built for the speed and complexity of 2026 retail.
With the launch of Orca AI, we can help you move past the data science bottleneck. Identify exactly where you're overpaying for premium service levels and automate the switch to ground—instantly reclaiming your margin.
The Shipium Advantage
Orchestration
Shipium vs. Fragmented Legacy
Legacy Tech: Stitching together five different point solutions and vendors to manage labels, tracking, and returns. This creates "data silos" where information is lost between steps.
Shipium: A single, unified API and source of truth for the entire post-purchase journey. We consolidate your stack into one intelligent architecture that synchronizes upstream promises with downstream execution.
Intelligence
Shipium vs. Static Logic
Legacy Tech: Relying on manual, rigid rate tables and "if/then" configurations that break the moment a weather event, carrier strike, or peak-season surcharge occurs.
Shipium: An AI-driven engine that models carrier capacity and real-world transit events. Our platform doesn't just follow rules; it proactively predicts and routes the best path for every order based on millions of data points.
Analytics
Shipium vs. Passive Reporting
Legacy Tech: "Rearview mirror" reporting that requires months-long data science projects just to find out why your margins leaked last quarter.
Shipium: Shipium Analytics (powered by Orca) uncovers hidden margins in minutes. It flags "over-shipping" trends as they happen, allowing you to move from passive analysis to immediate, margin-saving action.
Outpace the status quo.
Don't manage 2026 complexity with 2016 technology.
Upgrade to the platform designed for the future of shipping operations.