Enroute's online service aims to cut shipping costs

17.04.2009

Enroute's entry level service is its Shipping Analytics Dashboard, a portal that delivers information on cost savings, but also aggregates a user's data over time to discover patterns for savings and efficiency.

Enroute's full service is its Transport Management Solution that supplies rate and transit time data across national and regional carriers and supplies labels and manifests. Users can choose regional or national carriers, delivery method, and various aspects of shipment quality.

The service is similar to transportation management software larger companies such as Wal-Mart use to control shipping costs. But such software, traditionally home-grown or purchased from the likes of Kewill, Logicor and Pitney Bowes, is prohibitively expensive for the smaller and mid-sized companies Enroute is targeting.

"Ten years ago a solution like this was not necessary," says Keith McCall, founder of Enroute. "Today, with a large shift in the way people buy products and the way retailers are going online there is need for more efficient systems to help them ship packages."

McCall says the business analytics Enroute delivers is a hallmark of the service.