InfoShip®
Zone Skipping
InfoShip is able to handle multiple "shippers."  A shipper is an origin location. Shipments can be rated with more than one shipper before processing. This ability allows for Zone Skipping. Zone Skipping is a mechanism used by large shippers to minimize shipping costs by trucking many shipments together to another shipping location that is closer to the ultimate destination. Then, the individual shipments can be sent via small parcel carriers to their ultimate destinations. There is no limit to the number of shippers that can exist in a system.

The "shipper" can be changed programmatically through a business rule (by order, customer, or any other criteria or combination of criteria) or it may be set manually through the InfoShip interface.  The screen shot below shows the shipper field as it can exist on the main InfoShip display.