How a switch to Navdev rewrote a $1.2M shipping budget in 90 days.
Northgate Outdoors was spending $1.2M a year on shipping with a single-carrier contract and a single-DC footprint. Their margins were getting compressed every quarter.
The first win was rate-shopping. Adding USPS and a regional carrier to the mix shaved 11% off the average label cost in the first 30 days, without changing transit promises.
The second win was a second forward-stocking location. Splitting inventory across two DCs dropped the average shipping zone from 5.2 to 3.1 — a 17% reduction in per-package cost on its own.
The third win was packaging. Replacing the one-size-fits-all box with four right-sized cartons cut dimensional-weight surcharges by another 6%.
Stacked together, the program delivered a 28% reduction in shipping cost in 90 days — a six-figure annual save that funded a new product line.
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