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October 15, 2026

Once a mid-market shipper is coordinating multiple facilities, modes, vendors, and customer requirements, moving freight is rarely the hardest part. Growth tends to expose a different problem: transportation, warehousing, inventory, and service decisions get made separately, so a lower lane rate can still raise total landed cost or operating risk. Food & Beverage and Manufacturing […]

October 15, 2026

The food and beverage industry runs on numbers that shift by publisher, methodology, and year, which makes it hard to know which figures to trust when you’re benchmarking your own operation. We compiled the current, most-cited statistics on market size, manufacturing employment, logistics spend, cold chain, and supply chain disruption into one place, with every […]

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 […]