As the CFO of a lead­ing appar­el design and man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­ny, I have a fidu­cia­ry respon­si­bil­i­ty to ensure we increase our bot­tom line — and ShipLion helped make it hap­pen. ShipLion is not just a logis­tics ser­vice, they’re an exten­sion of our team here at Amerex. We’ve been work­ing with ShipLion for over 7 years now, and they have done sev­er­al rounds of nego­ti­a­tions and opti­miza­tions of our FedEx con­tracts. Dur­ing each round it seems like it will be impos­si­ble to top the pre­vi­ous rates, yet some­how ShipLion man­ages to come in and aver­age $250K in addi­tion­al sav­ings. When the job seems impos­si­ble, ShipLion will get it done. 

What we accom­plished with ShipLion was no risk, didn’t take much of our time, and was the biggest cost-sav­ing ini­tia­tive that we’ve ever done here. 

Lun­ya is a fast-grow­ing, D2C eCom­merce com­pa­ny, and our focus is on design­ing lux­u­ry appar­el for our con­sumers. Over the last decade ship­ping costs have sky­rock­et­ed, and one of our biggest strug­gles became our erod­ing mar­gins. Around 3 years ago we con­nect­ed with ShipLion, and what had pre­vi­ous­ly been a finan­cial strug­gle became a legit­i­mate sav­ings oppor­tu­ni­ty. Instead of watch­ing our costs increase with the mar­ket, we began sav­ing thou­sands of dol­lars a month in ship­ping. The turn­around was incred­i­ble. ShipLion has been there as our com­pa­ny has expand­ed and evolved, help­ing us opti­mize our ser­vice uti­liza­tion and guid­ing us through mul­ti­ple nego­ti­a­tions. With their indus­try exper­tise and warm, atten­tive team, I could­n’t have asked for a bet­ter experience. 

Tru­lyFree Home is a sub­scrip­tion box com­pa­ny, and ship­ping is one of our most sig­nif­i­cant costs. I had tak­en the time to learn the nuances of ship­ping con­tracts and had already nego­ti­at­ed com­pet­i­tive rates when ShipLion offered a free analy­sis. Even after my best efforts drove down our prices quite a bit, ShipLion was still able to save me an addi­tion­al $100,000 in annu­al ship­ping costs. They had aggres­sive tar­gets to reach and a com­pelling nego­ti­a­tion strat­e­gy to get there. Would def­i­nite­ly rec­om­mend them. 

At 360 Elec­tri­cal, we spend a few hun­dred thou­sand dol­lars a year on ship­ping. When I con­nect­ed with ShipLion, I wasn’t sure how sig­nif­i­cant the sav­ings would be — then they saved me 37% on my ship­ping costs. They’re pro­fes­sion­al, acces­si­ble, and excel­lent at what they do. It was a real plea­sure work­ing with them. 

I have worked with the ShipLion team for many years across sev­er­al orga­ni­za­tions. As a team leader tasked with over­see­ing a $50+ mil­lion dol­lar annu­al logis­tics bud­get, I need to ensure our agree­ments are rock sol­id and our costs are in line with the rest of the indus­try. I have leaned on ShipLion for many years and they have con­sis­tent­ly over-deliv­ered on their com­mit­ments. Work­ing with the ShipLion team, I have saved in excess of $3.5 mil­lion annu­al­ly across mul­ti­ple modes and ser­vices includ­ing Par­cel and LTL. ShipLion is always my first call when it comes to reduc­ing our spend and under­stand­ing the ever-increas­ing com­plex­i­ty that is our logis­tics costs. I would high­ly rec­om­mend ShipLion’s ser­vices to any of my peers and I look for­ward to work­ing close­ly with the ShipLion team for years to come. 

One of our biggest ship­ping chal­lenges as an eCom­merce retail­er and man­u­fac­tur­er is ship­ping large items. We strug­gled to get our rates in line due to our prod­uct pro­file, and our ship­ping costs ate into our mar­gin. ShipLion was able to com­plete­ly restruc­ture our costs with­out chang­ing car­ri­ers and min­i­mal work on our end — and the entire process took less than 8 weeks! Work­ing with ShipLion was quick and seam­less, and we saved 18% a year on ship­ping spend.