Its previous system forced the shipping staff to use a different software portal for each carrier, which often gave them no choice but to repeatedly re-enter shipping details as they searched for the best rates for any given shipment. In addition, data decentralization prohibited the shipping staff from engaging in precise analysis to determine the best shipping rates for any given order. Dealing with numerous, disparate software interfaces also meant shipping staff needed to continually retrain as carriers updated the way their systems worked.