{"id":13547,"date":"2026-07-14T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin-prod.qad.com\/blog\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:01:35","slug":"why-otm-users-leave-money-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/why-otm-users-leave-money-on-the-table","title":{"rendered":"Why OTM Users Leave Money on the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13552&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most organizations running OTM software excel at freight planning. Lanes are optimized. Network costs shrink. Consolidation strategies are modeled months in advance. On paper, the plan is sound. But parcel execution\u2014the final tactical layer, where individual packages meet individual carriers\u2014operates in a different world entirely. Planners build consolidated shipments against a stable model; execution teams meet a reality of carrier compliance rules, accessorial charges, and rate changes that were never part of the plan. The result is a daily scramble, and the margin the plan promised quietly erodes, one shipment at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why OTM Excels at Freight But Fails at Parcel<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freight is predictable. A lane from Chicago to Dallas runs on a schedule, carrier relationships are stable, and pricing is contracted and locked. OTM systems handle this beautifully \u2014 they optimize consolidation, enforce lane usage, and calculate the best-cost carrier per load. This is exactly what they were designed to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parcel is the opposite of predictable. Every package is different. Destination varies, weight varies, and accessorial rules vary by zip code, by carrier, and by service level. One package weighs 2.5 lbs and falls under a ground tier; another weighs 2.7 lbs and crosses into the next one, with a different cost and service commitment. Same origin, same day, entirely different economics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The complexity is also accelerating. In 2024, FedEx and UPS both implemented <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fedex.com\/newsroom\/global-english\/fedex-announces-adjusted-shipping-rates-fees-and-surcharges\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">general rate increases averaging 5.9%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [2], with <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theretailexec.com\/logistics\/multi-carrier-shipping\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fuel surcharges alone rising more than 17%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the year [3]. Carriers increasingly adjust the tables that determine surcharge percentages rather than the headline rate\u2014a quieter but equally effective way to extract more from every shipment. A parcel plan built three weeks ago is already out of date.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Carrier Compliance Complexity That OTM Ignores<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the proof point: carrier compliance complexity is where parcel execution fails most. To price and route a single parcel correctly, an execution system must know the service eligibility, the weight tier and whether it triggers a surcharge, the dimensional weight, the residential status, and the full stack of applicable surcharges\u2014fuel, remote area, peak, additional handling\u2014plus any contractual overrides you negotiated. OTM systems track these rules at the freight-lane level; they do not track them parcel by parcel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The financial stakes scale with volume, and volume is enormous. According to the <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/us-parcel-market-to-grow-36-by-2030-pitney-bowes-says\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, U.S. parcel volume reached 22.4 billion shipments in 2024, generating $203.2 billion in revenue [4]. At that scale, small per-parcel errors compound into serious money\u2014and <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsdelivers.com\/losing-customers-to-shipping-surcharges\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carrier surcharges can represent 20% to 30% of the total cost of an individual shipment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [1]. When surcharges of that magnitude are applied inconsistently, or missed at the planning stage, the margin leakage is both large and invisible until it is too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How QAD Multi-Carrier Parcel Shipping Closes the Gap<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizations that excel at parcel execution stop asking one system to do two incompatible jobs. They keep OTM for consolidation strategy and network optimization, and they deploy <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/solutions\/transportation-execution\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QAD Multi-Carrier Parcel Shipping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for execution. It sits between the OTM plan and the carrier network: validating every shipment against live carrier rules before dispatch, verifying rates in real time, calculating dimensional weight automatically, and feeding actual execution costs back to the plan. The result is faster execution, protected margin, and planning accuracy grounded in reality rather than assumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What to Do Now<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your OTM does not handle parcel execution nuance, you are already paying for it\u2014 in slow execution, in margin leakage, and in service failures that cost you customers. The fix is not to replace your OTM; it is to add parcel-native execution between your plan and the carrier network. Explore how <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/solutions\/transportation-execution\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QAD&#8217;s transportation execution solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> automate compliance, verify rates in real time, and close the loop back to planning\u2014so the plan you worked so hard to build finally survives contact with the carrier.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;13552&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]Most organizations running OTM software excel at freight planning. Lanes are optimized. Network costs shrink. Consolidation strategies are modeled months in advance. On paper, the plan is sound. But parcel execution\u2014the final tactical layer, where individual packages meet individual carriers\u2014operates in a different world entirely. 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