Transportation data can tell you a lot about where your money is going. But parcel teams also need to know when costs change, what’s the reason, and what they can do about it.
Sifted and Transportation Insight both give shippers technology to manage transportation spend. Transportation Insight takes a broad approach, with parcel optimization sitting alongside managed transportation, freight procurement, audit, and payment. Sifted concentrates its platform on parcel—and features robust AI, monitoring, modeling, and carrier management built around parcel costs and performance.
Here’s how the two approaches compare for teams looking to get more control over parcel spend.
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Why do shippers switch from Transportation Insight to Sifted?
Transportation Insight combines consulting experience with a broad transportation technology ecosystem. The platform supports parcel alongside LTL, truckload, drayage, freight audit and payment, transportation execution, and business intelligence.
Sifted is fully optimized and designed around parcel. SiftedAI continuously monitors parcel costs and performance. Teams can investigate their own shipping data in easy language, model potential changes against their actual shipping profile, and manage carrier billing and contract issues within the same parcel-focused platform.
For parcel-heavy teams, the distinction is less about whether both companies have technology and more about what that technology is built to manage.
Sifted vs. Transportation Insight: Parcel Spend Management Feature Comparison
| Feature | Sifted | Transportation Insight |
|---|---|---|
| Platform focused specifically on parcel cost optimization | Yes ✅ Sifted centers its monitoring, modeling, analytics, and carrier management around parcel. | Broader ❌ TI's technology and services span parcel, LTL, truckload, and freight. |
| Conversational AI for investigating parcel data | Yes ✅ SiftedAI lets teams ask questions about their own shipping data in plain English. | No ❌ |
| Self-service parcel scenario modeling | Yes ✅ Teams can directly model network, service type, packaging, and carrier contract changes against actual shipping data. | Yes TI provides network analysis, carrier diversification, and optimization capabilities |
| Always-on monitoring focused on parcel spend and performance | Yes ✅ SiftedAI monitors parcel data in the background for changes in cost and performance, and alerts you when anomalies are found. | Partial: ongoing parcel analytics and reporting, alerting is not documented for parcel spend. |
| Automated parcel audit and cost recovery | Yes ✅ Sifted audits shipments for service failures and invalid charges and manages eligible lost and damaged package claims. | Yes: audits parcel charges and manages claims. |
| Dedicated parcel contract monitoring | Yes ✅ Sifted can continuously monitor agreements and flag contract discrepancies and changes that affect costs. | Partial: provides contract analysis and ongoing optimization. |
“Sifted provides poignant, actionable details for extracting optimal results in parcel negotiations…dissecting complex parcel carrier pricing proposals into an easy to understand format. This provides me with the details I need for maximum results for my organization.”
— Verified User, Manufacturing, Enterprise (G2 review)
Keep Parcel at the Center of the Analysis
Focus the technology on parcel economics. Transportation Insight’s technology includes tools for parcel analytics, supply-chain visibility, shipment execution, and multimodal transportation decisions. Sifted is built specifically around parcel, keeping the analysis focused on the carrier rates, surcharges, service levels, package characteristics, and contract terms that drive parcel costs.
Catch changes as they develop. SiftedAI monitors parcel data in the background for cost spikes, performance drops, surcharge anomalies, and other changes that warrant attention. Teams don’t have to build a report each time they want to know whether their shipping profile has shifted—a big savings when it comes to internal time and resources.
Dig into the cause directly. When something changes, teams can ask questions about their own parcel data in plain English. That gives logistics, finance, and operations teams a faster way to investigate what’s driving a cost or performance issue without starting every question with a new report.
Test Parcel Decisions Against Your Own Shipping Profile
Transportation Insight helps shippers evaluate changes to their parcel operations through its technology and consulting services. Sifted takes that analysis a step further with self-service Scenario Modeling built directly into the parcel platform.
Teams can test changes against their actual shipment data, including:
- Network changes: Simulate adding, moving, or closing distribution centers and see the impact on cost and delivery.
- Service types: Compare different service levels across actual shipment volume and see the tradeoff between cost and transit time.
- Packaging: Test changes to package dimensions and see their impact on DIM weight, additional handling, and oversize charges.
- Carrier contracts: Upload and compare carrier proposals against the company’s real shipping profile before signing.
Because Scenario Modeling is self-service, teams can run new scenarios whenever a question comes up rather than waiting for a separate analysis.
Automate the Work Behind Parcel Cost Recovery
Sifted helps teams identify parcel billing issues and recover eligible savings. With Carrier Management, Sifted analyzes shipments for late deliveries, invalid surcharges, and duplicate charges.
Sifted also extends that oversight to carrier agreements. Contract Compliance compares charges against negotiated rates, while Contract Monitoring watches for changes such as expiring discounts and shifting tiers.
Transportation Insight also provides parcel audit and claims management, but Sifted brings recovery and ongoing contract oversight together in the same parcel-focused platform.
What Shippers Are Saying
“Sifted has a dashboard that provides an overview of everything you need to manage your small parcel spend and service. The Sifted service team is extremely helpful, and if there is any information not provided on the site, the team can usually find a way to pull and aggregate it for you.”
— Verified User, Consumer Goods, Mid-Market (G2 review)
“How easy it is to have all important data in one resource, it is easy to navigate, different departments within the company can take advantage of how resourceful it is… understanding financial impacts within the company within each department.”
— Pamella H., Mid-Market (G2 review)
“Very insightful software! Clearly highlighting trouble areas to see what needs to be improved.” — Steve S., Director of Marketing and Product Management, Small-Business (G2 review)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sifted a good fit if we’re currently using Transportation Insight?
Yes, especially for teams that want their parcel technology centered specifically on parcel costs and performance. Sifted combines continuous parcel monitoring, conversational analysis, self-service scenario modeling, carrier management, and reporting in one parcel-focused platform.
How does Sifted differ from Transportation Insight?
Transportation Insight provides parcel optimization as part of a broader transportation technology and managed-services offering. Its capabilities extend across parcel, LTL, truckload, drayage, transportation execution, freight audit and payment, and business intelligence.
Sifted focuses specifically on parcel. Its monitoring, modeling, analytics, audit, and carrier management tools are designed around the rates, surcharges, service levels, contracts, and operational decisions that affect parcel spend.
Why does a parcel-specific platform matter?
Parcel costs are affected by carrier agreements, surcharges, DIM pricing, service levels, zones, package characteristics, and frequent pricing changes.
Sifted keeps those variables at the center of its platform, giving teams dedicated tools to monitor what’s changing, investigate why, model possible responses, and manage the carrier costs that follow.
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