Your biggest account might be your worst one.
And you'd only find out by going and looking, on a hunch, in the one place you thought to check. CargoCore works the other way round: it reads what you already run and brings the few things costing you money to you — priced, owned, and dated.
Reads the WMS you already run. Nothing gets ripped out.
- Orders
- Packages
- Labour hours
- Rate card
- 1,284 packages — measured size vs. size billed
- 412 orders — all on the flat per-order fee
- your carton table — unchanged since March
2 more assembling this week
Illustrative — representative figures. Three different record types, joined into one finding. You never opened anything.
Sound familiar
You already know something's leaking. You just can't point at it.
Not for lack of data — you're drowning in it. The problem is that nothing in the stack tells you which brand, which SKU, which shift, and how much, while there's still time to do something about it.
You find out on the 15th
Last month closed two weeks ago. The overtime that blew out at your busiest site, the account that slid underwater when their order profile changed — you're reading about it now, in a spreadsheet somebody rebuilt by hand. Nobody's fault. It's just too late to do anything.
By the time you can see it, you can't fix it.
The rate card stopped matching the work
You priced that brand on 40 orders a day and two pallet positions. They're at 90 orders, six SKU variants, and a returns program nobody quoted. Your people absorbed every bit of it. The invoice still says the old number.
You're doing more work for the same money — and eating the difference.
Nobody owns the leak
Somebody notices. It goes in a Teams thread. It has no dollar amount, no owner, and no date on it — so it competes for attention against a truck sitting at the dock, and loses. Every single time.
Problems get noticed. They don't get closed.
How nothing slips
Found, priced, owned — then checked.
Anything without a number and a name never reaches you at all.
Found
On its own schedule, across every site.
Priced
What it costs you, per month.
Owned
One name, one move, twenty-four hours.
Checked
It reconciles whether margin actually moved.
The honest question
Could you have found it yourself?
Yes — if you'd opened the right one of twelve sites first. That's the part that doesn't scale.
Going and looking
You opened one site because you already suspected it. The other 11 weren’t looked at — and neither were the brands under them.
Being told
watching…billed by the order, shipped by the space they take up
The path, already walked
- Network
- Midwest
- Northlake
- one account
- 14 items
Every site, every brand, every day — not just the one you thought to check. You didn’t walk this path; it arrived walked, and every step still opens.
Illustrative — representative figures. Drilling down is for checking the answer, not for finding out whether you have one.
Works with what you already run
It already reads the WMS you're running.
150+ warehouse systems. You keep your WMS, your processes, and your people — nothing gets ripped out and nobody retrains. Before you sign anything, we show you exactly which of your fields we can read and which we can't.
- Extensiv
- Infoplus
- ShipHero
- ShipBob
- ShipMonk
- Logiwa
- Deposco
- VeraCore
- CartonCloud
- Zenventory
- Mintsoft
- Peoplevox
- Packiyo
- Linnworks
- Stord
- Whiplash
- ShipStation
- Cin7
- Ongoing WMS
- Shipedge
- WarehouseOS
- Fulfil
- Da Vinci
- Camelot
- and 130 more
Why you can believe it
You never go looking for the SKU. It arrives attached to the problem.
Every item opens all the way down, because that's where its number came from.
Your rate card charges by the order. Your carrier charges by the space the box takes up. For a light, bulky item those two numbers come apart badly — and every pick, every restock, every return on that SKU makes it worse. Nobody's line item is wrong. The SKU is just the wrong shape for the deal you signed.
6×4×3 in · 0.8 lb · billed at actual weight
Contribution / order
$2.75 (+32%)
Illustrative · same flat rate card · dimensional weight can inflate billed shipping 200–400%.
Dimensional weight alone can move a SKU’s shipping cost by 200–400%※.
A light, bulky box gets billed on the space it takes up, not what it weighs. Two SKUs on the same rate card can cost you wildly different money to ship, and the invoice never tells you which.
And you can follow any figure the whole way down yourself — network, region, site, activity, brand, item.
Network
All warehouses
+4.2%
$182K / mo
Looks fine. This is the number you quote in the management meeting.
Illustrative — representative figures. On a call this runs on your own warehouses.
What it actually does
Find it. Stop it. Get it back.
Four things, and every one of them ends in something a person can do on Monday — with a name on it and a dollar amount beside it. Not another chart to interpret.
Find it
which brand, which SKU, which site, which shift — and how much- Financials — Per-brand and per-warehouse P&L on one activity spine.
- Executive Command Center — Network profitability at a glance, ranked by what's leaking.
- Network — Compare warehouses and brands across the whole network.
Stop it
catch it while the week is still fixable, and price the next deal so it can't happen again- Deal Desk — Price new deals on true cost-to-serve — and stop bad pricing before it ships.
- Ops Command Center — Run the floor in the hour, not the post-mortem.
- Campaign Forecasts — Staff ahead of the brand's promo, not during it.
- Executive Advisor — The at-risk brands, explained — with the recommended move.
Get it back
bill the work you actually did, and claw back what the carrier overcharged you- Action Queue — The prioritized, costed 'do this now' list.
- Recover Profit — Work the margin-recovery opportunities to closed.
- Arbitrage Intelligence — Catch carrier over-billing and shipping-mix waste.
Trust it fast
know which numbers are solid and which are still thin, from day one- Data Quality — Complete the data, unlock the dollars it powers.
- Setup — Get to trustworthy numbers fast.
Before you sign anything
What we'll put in writing
Things you can hold us to on the first call — and check for yourself afterwards.
We'll show you what we can't read
Before anything is signed, you get the field-by-field list of what we can pull from your systems and what we can't. Coverage varies by platform and we'd rather you hear that from us than discover it in month two.
We won't pad the number to clear our own bar
The $5,000 a month is a floor we're confident in, not a target we'll manufacture. Every finding has to survive your team pulling on it — and one we can't evidence doesn't get shown to you at all, even when that leaves us short.
Every number opens to the records behind it
Nothing is a score out of ten. Each figure resolves to the orders, packages and rate-card lines it was built from, so your team can check the arithmetic rather than trust it.
Read-only, and nothing gets ripped out
You keep your WMS, your processes, and your people. We read; we don't write. Turning us off leaves your operation exactly as it was.
We connect, and seven days later you have your first findings — on your own numbers.
At least $5,000 a month of combined savings and recoverable revenue — found inside those seven days.
And here's what's already documented about where 3PL margin goes
Overtime vs. planned labor
$24/hr vs $15–17/hr※Overtime costs roughly half again what planned seasonal labor does. Every surprise you cover with OT instead of a plan is margin you hand back.
Peak hiring lead time
8–12 weeks※That's how far ahead you have to start hiring for peak. Which means you need the brand's forecast in the summer, not in November.
Retailer chargebacks
3%※Big-box retailers fine you a slice of the cost of goods when you miss the delivery window. A late truck isn't a bad look — it's a chargeback with your name on it.
What a return really costs
2–3×※A return costs more to handle than the original outbound did — inspect, decide, restock or write off. A brand with a returns habit is a labor problem before it's a billing problem.
Storage, per cubic foot
$0.46※Per cubic foot, per month, industry average. Slow bulky stock isn't just sitting there — it's paying rent out of your margin and holding a pallet position a faster brand would pay more for.
Recoverable by right-sizing
15–25%※Right-sizing the carton on the worst offenders gets a real chunk of that back — but only once you know which SKUs they are.
One window, two sides
Your customer sees the same numbers you do
Give a brand their own login and the monthly "where's my report" email stops. They stop guessing whether you're taking care of them; you stop having an account manager rebuild the same spreadsheet twelve times a year. The conversation changes from defending yourself to planning together.
- You see: every brand ranked by what it actually earns you, down to the SKU
- They see: their own volume, service, and costs — self-serve, no waiting on you
- Same numbers on both sides, so nobody's arguing about whose spreadsheet is right
You see
Every brand, ranked
Cost by activity
What to price next
They see
Their own volume
Their service level
Their own costs
Take this part to your CFO
The arithmetic, if they want to check your work
You don't need this section. The person who signs the check does. These are published industry figures, not our estimates — every one is linked at the bottom of the page, and none of them are ours to spin.
- what a 3PL keeps after everything
- 3–6%※what a 3PL keeps after everything
- of an order's cost is fulfillment
- 70%※of an order's cost is fulfillment
- shipping-cost swing from box size alone
- 200–400%※shipping-cost swing from box size alone
- leaked to billing errors, per 3PL
- $30k–$80k※leaked to billing errors, per 3PL
Security
Your rates are your rates
You're handing us what your customers pay you and what it costs you to serve them. That's the most sensitive data in your business, and it gets treated that way.
Your data is walled off below the app
Your rates, margins, and decisions are scoped to your workspace and filtered on every single read — enforced beneath the application, not by a setting somebody could get wrong.
Your team sees only their scope
A site manager sees their site. A regional lead sees their region. Brands see only themselves. Every change is attributed to a person by name.
Everything is on the record
Every rate change, every override, every access event is logged and replayable — so you can always answer "who changed this, and when".
Where to start
Point it at your own warehouses and see what falls out
We connect to your WMS, run your last few months through it, and walk you and your ops leads through what we found — the brands, the SKUs, and the shifts where the money is going. Seven days, and at least $5,000 a month to show for it.
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Sources
These are published industry ranges, shown so you can check them — not a promise about your business. Your actual numbers get derived from your own activity and your own rate card.
- DIM inflates billed weight 200–400% for light/bulky SKUs; right-sizing recovers 15–25%
- Some SKUs subsidize others — SKU-level analysis + rationalization (ShipBob)
- Peak lifts volume 200–400%; OT ~$24/hr vs seasonal ~$15–17/hr
- OTIF non-compliance fines (e.g. Walmart ~3%)
- Reverse-logistics processing cost (Red Stag)
- 3PL storage ~$0.46/cu ft/mo avg ($0.35–0.60; 600-warehouse survey)
- 3PL net margins run ~3–6% (GXO 1.9% op. margin; DHL ~6%)
- Fulfillment ≈ 70% of average order value
- 3PL billing errors cost ~$30k–$80k / year