Is your distribution company paying brutal surcharges on international or palletized shipments because your logistics staff always uses the same agency out of convenience?
For a B2B business that ships heavy goods, spare parts, or bulky batches, the logistics cost can devour the commercial margin of a sale. The problem is that your warehouse staff does not have the time to log into five different websites to compare which carrier offers the best price to send a pallet to France or an urgent package to Madrid. By inertia, and because it is the only program they have installed, they end up sending everything with the same old agency, accepting standard rates that annihilate your competitiveness.
The trap of Native Carrier Modules
To digitize, some companies install the free module provided by their main agency (like FedEx or DHL). However, this software holds you technically hostage, preventing you from connecting other competitors on the same screen. Tying your logistics billing to a single carrier's proprietary software is writing a blank check to their future rate increases.
Our solution: Multi-Carrier Logistics API Integration
At LANZA ESTUDIO, we democratize your corporate logistics. As Cloud engineers, we develop a Middleware that connects your ERP or Warehouse Management System (WMS) with the APIs of multiple logistics operators and aggregators (like Sendcloud or Packlink) into a single centralized brain.
- Simultaneous Real-Time Quoting: By entering the weight, dimensions, and destination of the B2B order into your ERP, the Cloud API instantly queries all your registered agencies and returns a comparative list of prices and transit times.
- Smart Routing Rules: We configure your business logic so the system automatically assigns the shipment to the cheapest carrier, or the fastest one if the client paid for expedited shipping (Express).
- Unified Label Generation: Regardless of the chosen agency, the warehouse prints the shipping label and the pickup manifest directly from your own software, without having to log into external websites.
- Consolidated Tracking Traceability: The gateway retrieves the tracking numbers from all agencies and unifies them in your client portal, sending automatic emails with the package status regardless of the operator.
The Real Impact on your Shipping Margins
- Direct Savings on Logistics Bills: By forcing agencies to compete for every pallet in real time, you automatically reduce your annual shipping costs by up to thirty percent.
- Frictionless International Scalability: You can start selling to new countries tomorrow; you just need to connect the API of the leading carrier in that region without changing a single process in your warehouse.
- Unbeatable Negotiating Power: By having centralized data and not depending technically on any agency, you regain the power to negotiate better rates or switch providers with a single click.