Every hour a machine sits idle, a dealer loses trust, and so do you. In automotive, industrial, and agricultural aftermarket, speed isn’t a competitive advantage. It’s the baseline.
Yet most aftermarket shippers are still fighting their own tools. Manual shipment entry. Carrier portals that don’t talk to each other. Visibility gaps that force your customer service team to chase tracking updates instead of serving customers.
QAD Multi-Carrier Parcel Shipping (MCPS) was built for exactly this. Not a generic shipping tool retrofitted for parts. A purpose-built solution for speed, carrier complexity, and compliance demands that define aftermarket distribution.
With MCPS, you process shipments in under a second, at any volume. You connect to hundreds of carriers already onboarded, including specialist in night and regional services, without lengthy integrations. You give dealers and field engineers exception-based tracking, so the right people get the right alerts, automatically. And you handle dangerous goods, lithium batteries, and mixed parcel/LTL workflows without bolting extra tools or adding headcount.
One integration. Every warehouse, ERP, and order management system you run. Full visibility. No fragmentation.
When the part is urgent, delivery can’t be an afterthought.
Challenge 1: Manual processing creates a growth ceiling
When shipment volume grows, manual entry doesn’t scale. It breaks. Teams that once handled daily output comfortably start falling behind. The answer is usually more headcount, which compresses margin and introduces error.
MCPS processes shipments in under a second. Growth adds volume, not overhead. Your team focuses on exceptions, not entries.
Challenge 2: Carrier complexity becomes a daily friction point
Aftermarket customers aren’t uniform. Some require a specific regional carrier. Others need innight delivery, weekend transit, or specialist handling for hazardous materials. Managing this across disconnected portals is a constant source of delay and error.
MCPS connects you to hundreds of pre-onboarded carriers, including specialist innight and regional services built for aftermarket SLAs. No lengthy carrier onboarding. No integration projects. Ship to any requirement from day one.
Challenge 3: Fragmented visibility drives reactive customer service
When a dealer calls to check a shipment, your team shouldn’t have to open four carrier portals to answer. But that’s exactly what happens when visibility is fragmented across systems.
MCPS consolidates all shipment milestones in one place. Exception-based alerts go directly to dealers and service engineers automatically. Your logistics team gains back hours that should never have been lost.
According to a 2024 Gartner supply chain survey, logistics leaders cite real-time visibility as the single highest-priority capability gap in their outbound operations. MCPS closes it.
Challenge 4: Dangerous goods and specialist shipments demand more than a generic tool
Lithium batteries. Hazardous fluids. Oversized parts that mix parcel and LTL in the same order. Generic shipping tools weren’t designed for these edge cases and the compliance risk when they fail is significant.
MCPS handles dangerous goods classification, extended carrier labels for warehouse traceability, and mixed parcel/LTL workflows natively. No bolt-ons. No workarounds.
Challenge 5: System fragmentation creates IT overhead and errors
Most aftermarket distributors ship from multiple warehouses, across multiple ERPs, through multiple order management systems. Every additional integration is another point of failure, another maintenance burden, another source of shipment error.
MCPS integrates once and connects to every system in your environment: SAP, Oracle, QAD, or custom TMS/WMS. One platform. Full control. No fragmentation.
The bottom line
Aftermarket shipping isn’t a logistics problem. It’s a customer promise. When a part is urgent, the question your customer is asking isn’t whether it will arrive, it’s whether it will arrive in time.
MCPS gives automotive, industrial, and agricultural aftermarket shippers the speed, carrier reach, and visibility to answer that question with certainty.
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