# Shipium named in 2026 Gartner® MCPMS Market Guide [Download Report](/content/gartner-mcpms-2026/index.html) # Your Shipping Deserves a Real-Time Financial Control System Always-On Audit is continuous validation across every stage of the shipment lifecycle — rating, labeling, execution, invoicing, and billing. Reduce reliance on reactive audits with Shipium’s continuous controllership built into the platform that already runs your shipping. ## The status quo ## Retroactive auditing is not a strategy Most shippers still treat shipping audit as a forensic review and cleanup. Invoices arrive from carriers. A third-party auditor reconstructs what should have happened. Weeks later, disputes are filed. Months later, credits trickle in. By the time finance sees the real number, the money is already gone and the contract terms have already been misapplied thousands of times. ## Three structural problems with this model ### 1. It’s backward-looking. Errors are always caught after shipment, and often after payment, not beforehand. ### 2. It’s disconnected. The team auditing the invoice has insufficient access to the rating, labeling, or execution data that would prove what the charge should have been. ### 3. It’s slow. Dispute cycles run in weeks. Leakage visibility runs in months. Finance plans against stale numbers. Corrective actions in operations are too late. Shipping is one of the largest controllable costs in the supply chain. It deserves a financial control system, not a forensic one. # The Always-On Audit model ## Validate at every stage Always-On Audit moves validation upstream. Instead of waiting for an invoice to arrive, Shipium validates the shipment at each point where financial truth is created. Discrepancies are caught in real time. ### Rate Confirm rates against your contract, discounts, and terms. Catch discrepancies at the system level so you don’t miss earned discounts or create zone errors before a label is printed. ### Label Validate the carrier's label response against the expected rate. Flag discrepancies, hold suspicious labels for review, and auto-reroute when a service becomes ineligible or cost-prohibitive. ### Ship Monitor scans, weights, and dimensions against what was declared. Pre-file for service failure refunds the moment a commitment is missed. ### Invoice Reconcile the invoice against everything that came before it. Auto-approve what matches, auto-dispute what doesn't with all root cause details, and surface contract leakage as it happens. ### Bill Check bills to third parties against expected rates and pricing strategies to protect your margin. Administer billing and manage client experiences. ## Why Shipium ### Only the system that runs your shipping can audit it in real time Shipium goes beyond reconstructing an audit from invoice data because the platform is the system of record for all shipping decisions. ### Upstream correction Errors are caught before a label prints, not after a check clears. ### Single source of truth Rating, label, scan, and invoice data are joined by a single shipment ID across one financial ledger. ### Continuous learning Every dispute and discrepancy feeds back into the rating engine and contract model, so the same error doesn't happen twice. ### Orca AI integration All workflows roll into Orca AI for more robust analysis possibilities within Orca Analytics or through your Compass subscription. # Modern Operators Built for the people who own shipping spend ### Finance You need shipping to behave like every other controllable cost in your P&L: real-time accruals, GL-coded spend, clean audit trails, and no surprises at month-end. Always-On Audit gives finance a live view of shipping leakage and a defensible record for every dollar paid to a carrier. ### Operators & Procurement You negotiated the contract. You need to know it's being honored right now. Always-On Audit catches mis-applied accessorials, zone errors, and missed service commitments as they happen, and turns every dispute into a data point for your next carrier negotiation. ### 3PLs You bill your clients for the shipping you execute on their behalf. Billing Management ties every billable event to an actual shipment and an actual contract, so you stop losing margin to untracked surcharges and manual reconciliation. # IMPACT ## The transformative results of Always-On Audit ### 99%+ Invoice lines auto-approved without human review ### Days Typical dispute cycle under a closed-loop model ### Real-time Visibility into shipped-but-not-billed accruals ### One ledger Complete shipping data joined by a single shipment ID ## Ready to understand your network like never before? [Contact Sales](/content/demo/index.html)