Negotiated rates aren't actually optimal
Most enterprise contracts have soft spots — surcharges that didn't move in the last renegotiation, MBG performance that's untracked.
Enterprise shippers have rate sheets that look tight on paper. We audit them line by line — dim factor, surcharge schedule, peak caps, MBG performance — and find the leaks the carrier rep didn't volunteer.
Most enterprise contracts have soft spots — surcharges that didn't move in the last renegotiation, MBG performance that's untracked.
At enterprise scale, even modest unfiled-refund percentages translate to six-figure recoveries annually.
Carriers update general rate increases annually. Surcharges drift on top of base rate changes. Easy to miss.
Line-by-line teardown of the existing contract against benchmark data.
Late-delivery, surcharge, and address-correction refunds filed weekly across the full label volume.
When carriers push annual GRI, we provide the data to push back.
Ongoing surveillance of the schedule. Catches off-cycle surcharge increases the moment they fire.
Pre-negotiation shippers — start with a base contract, then audit it.
Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, multi-channel — we cover the full carrier stack you're juggling.
Open playbook →Carrier rates are the second-biggest line on your bid sheet. We negotiate them as one consolidated book.
Open playbook →B2B parcel is a different problem from DTC. We treat it that way.
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