Parcel Spend Intelligence
Visibility to savings and insights. One single parcel can generate at least 10 different pieces of actionable data across multiple carrier invoices and most shippers never see any of it. Our Parcel BI suite turns that flood of data into a single source of truth, surfacing more than 40 actionable insights that lower cost, recover cost and protect margin, without adding headcount.
Your parcel data already contains the answer. It just isn't readable yet
Every package you ship leaves a trail, service level, zone, weight, dimensional pricing, surcharges, service performance, spread across multiple carrier invoices in formats nobody reads end to end. Business Solutions Group's Parcel BI suite consolidates that data into a single source of truth and surfaces more than 40 actionable insights that lower cost, recover cost and protect margin.
It does that without adding headcount. The analysis your team would need weeks of spreadsheet work to assemble is already sitting in the dashboard, in as little as 3–5 clicks.
- Parcel Spend Intelligence, visibility across every carrier, domestic and international
- Parcel Cost Variance, proof that what you were charged matches what actually happened
- Parcel Margin Analysis, parcel cost connected back to your bottom line
- Post-audit recovery refund service included in the subscription
What's hiding in your parcel data
The cost drivers that matter most are the ones no invoice puts in front of you. They accumulate quietly, month after month, across every carrier you use.
Cost drivers buried in the invoice
Parcel invoices bury real cost drivers across dozens of fields per package, service level, zone, weight, dimensional pricing and surcharges, multiplied across every carrier you use.
Soft-cost overages nobody catches
Without the right visibility, soft-cost overages, surcharges, misweights, mismeasures and service failures, go unnoticed month after month.
Margin erosion in plain sight
Margin erosion from "free shipping" offers and underpriced products often hides in plain sight, because shipping cost and product profitability usually live in different systems entirely.
What the platform already manages
These are the numbers running through the Parcel BI suite today, the same engine your data would be read by.
Built as one connected system
Parcel Spend Intelligence gives you visibility. Parcel Cost Variance proves whether what you were charged matches what actually happened. Parcel Margin Analysis connects it all back to your bottom line.
1. Parcel Spend Intelligence (PSI)
Full awareness of your parcel spend in as little as 3–5 clicks.
Consolidated dashboards that give you a complete picture of where parcel spend is going, the foundation the rest of the suite builds on.
What's included
- 40+ actionable insights to elevate soft-cost savings opportunities
- KPIs and trends with customized, automated alerts
- Multi-carrier compatible, 15+ carriers and counting
- International and domestic mapping
- Post-audit recovery refund service included
You keep 100% of the savings realized. The subscription is the only cost.
2. Parcel Cost Variance (PCV)
Expected cost and actual cost are rarely the same.
An add-on to PSI that uncovers the truth in your current spend by comparing what you said you shipped against what you were actually billed for.
What's included
- Connects directly into your manifest data, comparing manifest and invoice data in real time
- Identifies inaccuracies between expected shipping cost and actual shipping cost
- Uncovers inaccurate manifesting practices that quietly inflate your bill
- Drills down to package-level detail to pinpoint exactly what's responsible for unexpected costs
- Identifies trends in shipping practices across your operation
Problems get fixed at the source, not just refunded after the fact.
3. Parcel Margin Analysis (PMA)
Shipping cost should never be a blind spot in a pricing decision.
Exposes the true profit margin on every product, factoring in gross margin, total transportation expense and revenue capture.
What's included
- Measures parcel shipping's real impact on margin by product, product group, customer, channel and order
- Full visibility into cost of goods and cost of sales, inclusive of parcel costs and billed freight
- Enables data-driven decisions on "free shipping" offers and product-level pricing
- Grounded in actual shipping costs rather than assumptions
Clients typically see 5%–10% improvement in gross margin and a 1%–2% EBITDA contribution.
What you get
The suite is a subscription, not a project. It runs continuously against your live parcel data, and everything it finds is yours to keep.
- 40+ actionable insights surfaced automatically, not buried in invoices you'll never fully read
- Real-time visibility across 15+ carriers, domestically and internationally
- Included post-audit recovery, so billing errors are caught and refunded for you
- Package-level accountability that holds carriers to their own service, weight and dimension commitments
- Direct visibility into how parcel spend affects product-level and company-level margin
- You keep 100% of the savings identified, the subscription is the only cost
One parcel, at least 10 pieces of actionable data. Multiply that across a year of shipping and the question stops being whether savings exist and becomes how quickly you can see them.
Frequently asked questions
They are three layers of one connected system. Parcel Spend Intelligence is the foundation, consolidated dashboards giving you full awareness of your parcel spend in as little as 3–5 clicks. Parcel Cost Variance is an add-on to PSI that compares your manifest data against invoice data in real time to prove whether what you were charged matches what actually happened. Parcel Margin Analysis connects parcel cost back to product, customer and channel profitability so shipping cost is never a blind spot in a pricing decision.
You keep 100% of the savings realized. The subscription is the only cost; there is no share taken from what the platform recovers or identifies, and the post-audit recovery refund service is included in it.
The platform is multi-carrier compatible across 15+ carriers and counting, with both international and domestic mapping. That means cross-border and domestic spend sit in the same view rather than in separate reports that never reconcile.
With Parcel Margin Analysis in place, clients typically see a 5%–10% improvement in gross margin and a 1%–2% EBITDA contribution. That comes from seeing cost of goods and cost of sales inclusive of parcel costs and billed freight, then repricing products and "free shipping" offers against actual shipping cost instead of assumptions.
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- 40+ actionable insights, across every carrier you use
- You keep 100% of the savings realized