Carrier selection and allocation

We choose the carrier panel for each Gulf market you serve and write the allocation rules that send every order to the right carrier by destination, weight, value, service level and payment type. The rules are tested on your historical orders before they go live.

You receive the panel, the share of volume each carrier earns, and the commercial reasons for both.

• A carrier long list and panel recommendation by market, with coverage and service basis.
• An allocation rulebook mapping order attributes to carrier and service level.
• A back-test of the rules on twelve months of orders, showing cost and delivery performance.
• A volume allocation plan with minimum and maximum shares for each carrier.
• A carrier scorecard format for monthly review.

• Delivered cost per parcel is set out by market and carrier, so a dearer lane shows up in the same table.
• First-attempt delivery success is compared across carriers city by city, which gives every city a best carrier.
• Orders follow the rulebook, and the share of volume allocated by it is on the scorecard.
• Cash-on-delivery remittance arrives sooner, and you follow the days from delivery to cash by carrier.
• Every carrier's share of volume sits under the ceiling you set, and the largest single share is reported against it.

Many groups default to the carrier that signed first. Volume gravitates to one name, rates harden and a service failure has no alternative behind it. Where several carriers exist, allocation is often by habit, so a premium parcel goes by an economy route and the reverse.

• One carrier handles most of your parcels and its price rises have gone unchallenged.
• A regional delivery failure leaves orders stranded with no second option.
• Allocation to carriers is done by a warehouse operator's preference.
• Delivery failure rates differ sharply by city and no one has compared carriers there.
• Cash-on-delivery remittance from carriers arrives late and varies by carrier.

Brands, retailers, distributors and marketplaces shipping to consumers or trade customers across Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Kuwait, whether they use one carrier today or several.

A blended fleet is an allocation problem, and Qasim Abbas set the capital logic behind one of about 1,000 vehicles at BaladiMart, part of Al Baladi Group. Your carrier mix gets the same reasoning, with each order going where it earns the best return per drop.

We write the rules to run in whichever order or shipping systems the group uses, and we back-test them on your parcel history before any volume moves. See how fees work.

Do you negotiate with carriers?

We bring the panel and the volume plan to the negotiation. Larger rate resets run through transportation-cost benchmarking, which sets the market range for each lane.

Can the rules change in peak season?

Yes. The rulebook includes peak overrides, tested in advance, with the thresholds that trigger them.

If one carrier carries most of your volume, hand us a month of parcels. We lay out your allocation under a panel at a private briefing with the Managing Partner.