# Shipium named in 2026 Gartner® MCPMS Market Guide

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# 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.

**Make the switch today.**

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<br>- $2,000 - $10,000 for any operational changes required, customers average several requests per year<br>- $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.

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## 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.