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Freight is a strategy, not a line item.

In distribution, the margin story is written in carrier contracts, inventory positions, and the orders that quietly lose money. We read that story in your own data, then help you rewrite it.

The decisions

The calls we help you make.

We have watched freight run a third of order value. At that weight, the carrier contract is not a line item. It is the business model.

Where the margin hides

Four places it hides in plain sight.

01

Rates negotiated from evidence

Dense, predictable volume is leverage, but only if you can show it. Your own shipment data, organized, is the strongest card you hold at the carrier table.

Carriers · Rates
02

The cost of shipping nothing

Packaging tare is freight paid on non-product, on every single shipment. Right-sizing boxes also stops the oversize surcharges a single bad dimension can trigger.

Packaging · Surcharges
03

Orders below the waterline

Small orders often land near zero contribution once freight is counted. Minimums and repricing at the bottom rung are pure margin, with no operational change required.

Pricing · Minimums
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Inventory in the right place

What sits where, what actually moves, and when a transfer beats a new order. Visibility across sites keeps working capital working.

Inventory · Network
What we plug into

We work with what you have.

TMS and WMS exports, carrier invoices, order histories, and the rate sheets buried in email. The evidence is almost always already there. It has just never been assembled.

The margin is already in your invoices.

We go find it. Half an hour and a sample of shipment data is enough to know how much is there.

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