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You're stuck mid-tier
Big enough to think you've negotiated, too small for the real volume-tier discounts. The gap costs your margin on every shipment.
Industries · 3PL
Win more bids on better rates.
3PLs live and die on the spread between negotiated and billed carrier rates. We pool your volume into our GPO contract, get you tier-1 pricing your bid sheet can quote against, and audit every invoice your carriers send you.
Where the money leaks
Three problems we see in every 3pl audit.
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Multi-client billing is brutal
Each client wants their own rate breakdown, their own audit, their own surcharges accounted for. Doing it manually eats analyst hours.
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Carriers don't compete for your business
Your reps know they're the only relationship you have. There's no leverage. Switching carriers is operationally painful, so nothing moves.
Our playbook
Four levers, specifically for 3pl.
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GPO consolidated rates
Pool your shipping into our group purchasing program. Tier-1 carrier rates without tier-1 volume — pricing you can underwrite client contracts against.
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Per-client cost allocation
Kadix splits every audit and refund by client so your billing team has clean P&L attribution. Refunds get routed back to the right account automatically.
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Carrier benchmarking
We benchmark your contracts against 80+ other 3PLs in our database every quarter. When carriers try to raise rates at renewal, you walk in with the data.
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Lane-specific freight rates
For our 3PL clients with LTL/FTL volume, we negotiate per-lane carrier rates separate from parcel. Two contracts, both optimized.
$26K / mo
Saved by a 3-warehouse auto parts client after we consolidated · see case study
Best fit if you are
- ✓3PLs with $50K+/month parcel spend
- ✓Multi-warehouse operators with split carrier accounts
- ✓3PLs growing into freight (LTL/FTL)
- ✓Companies bidding on enterprise fulfillment contracts
Probably not for you if
Very early-stage 3PLs running a single warehouse on retail carrier rates — get to $20K+/mo first.
Other industries
Different verticals, same audit-first approach.
E-commerce & DTC
Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, multi-channel — we cover the full carrier stack you're juggling.
Open playbook →Distribution & B2B Wholesale
B2B parcel is a different problem from DTC. We treat it that way.
Open playbook →Manufacturing
Samples, spare parts, RMAs, international B2B exports — the unsexy parcel volume that adds up fast.
Open playbook → Want the 3pl playbook on your invoices?
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