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September 14, 2026

Choosing where to put a distribution center or plant shapes a company’s cost structure and service levels for years. A raw center-of-gravity result can point to a promising facility location, but the harder decision is whether that location still works once freight rates, labor, inventory, service commitments, facility capacity, and transition risk enter the model. […]

August 26, 2026

Mid-market shippers need more than a lane quote. They need a partner who can model total landed cost across network design, warehousing, and transportation, catch inefficiencies before they compound, execute against a plan, and report on what changed. The right consulting relationship should reduce cost-to-serve without forcing operations and finance teams to stitch together separate […]

August 26, 2026

Most companies know their product cost. Fewer know their total landed cost. The gap between those two numbers, often 20-40% for imported goods, is where margin assumptions become wrong and sourcing decisions go sideways [2].Our team compiled 13 benchmark, policy, and industry sources, alongside MVP Logistics’ internal benchmark study [1], to estimate total landed cost […]

July 14, 2026

Every load that moves has two parties with a stake in it: the shipper who needs it covered, and the carrier who decides whether to take it. That decision is rarely neutral. Carriers are running a business, and some freight is simply more profitable and less operationally painful to haul than other freight. When capacity […]

June 25, 2026

When truckload capacity tightens, the freight market does not apply pressure uniformly. Some operations keep their lanes covered and their schedules intact. Others absorb tender rejections, pay spot rate premiums, and manage the downstream fallout on production timing and budget. The gap between those two outcomes is not random. It is the result of how […]