Transportation Profitability Analysis & Network Management

Leveraging business transformation experience to help carriers enhance profitability.

Long Haul Semi Truck On a Rural Western USA Interstate Highway

A Roadmap for Transportation Business Transformation

For transportation and logistics organizations, margin pressure rarely comes from one issue alone. It builds across strategy, operations, pricing, technology, and day-to-day execution. The opportunity isn’t just knowing where profit is won and lost. It’s understanding how the business can change to perform more effectively.

Working alongside your team, we help connect strategy, data, technology, and operations so you can see performance more clearly—from enterprise priorities down to the individual customer, lane, and load. Our business transformation services help provide clarity that supports more informed decisions about cost, pricing, and growth.

Real change starts with targeted questions. Through focused working sessions, we dig into root causes, surface the operational and strategic levers that matter, and recommend practical actions tied to your goals.

Sustainable Profitability Starts With Business Transformation

Lasting profitability isn’t a one-time fix. It’s the outcome of aligning three forces that shape every transportation business: where you’re headed, how your capital supports that direction, and how well you execute day to day.

Strategy
- Turning vision into stated outcomes
- Modernizing aging processes
- Protecting against internal and external risk
Financial Alignment
- Prioritizing growth and cost reduction
- Improving operational efficiency
- Supporting regulatory and compliance needs
Operational Excellence
- Providing a clear transformation vision
- Aligning people, process, and technology
- Breaking down big goals into practical, actionable steps

How We Help You Move From Insight to Action

Transformation happens where four things come together: your people, your processes, your technology, and the outcomes they produce. Here’s what it looks like in practice.

People

Great operations start with the right people in the right roles. We help transportation and logistics organizations align structure, governance, and workforce capacity with their service, cost, and profitability goals—so your teams are ready for today’s demands and tomorrow’s growth.

We Can Help

Study your organizational structure, operating constraints, and workforce capacity against service, cost, and profitability goals
Right-size dispatcher, driver, warehouse, and planning teams
Align roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and schedules
Design target operating models that support execution and growth
Build change management strategy, training, and adoption plans

What You Can Gain

Transportation organization assessments
Full-time equivalent (FTE) analyses
Workforce capacity planning model
Roles, responsibilities, and decision-rights matrix
Target operating model design
Governance and performance management frameworks
Change management and training plan

Process

Every profitable network runs on strong processes. We help you connect network strategy to day-to-day execution—surfacing inefficiencies, improving visibility, sharpening service delivery, and showing how operational choices may ripple into value across the business.

We Can Help

Evaluate network, site selection, third-party warehouse, and capacity decisions
Improve warehouse, distribution, and inbound/outbound operations
Refine routes, lanes, cargo loading, and delivery models
Identify transportation cost leakage and profitability opportunities
Strengthen international trade, incoterms, and documentation processes

What You Can Gain

Distribution network analysis, design, and refinement
Site selection and warehouse footprint strategy
Warehouse operations assessment
Lane analysis and benchmarking
Route design and refinement
Cost accumulation waterfall
Transportation profitability analysis
Supply chain risk and resiliency study
International trade process study

Technology

Tailored technology turns data into decisions. Working alongside your team, we align tools with operational priorities to help you gain visibility, act with confidence, and prepare for what’s next in an evolving market.

We Can Help

Help assess and implement logistics, transportation, warehouse, ERP, and planning tools
Support TMS, WMS, OMS, ERP, and shipment-tracking improvements
Build sharper visibility into lanes, customers, routes, loads, and geographies
Equip leaders with reporting, dashboards, benchmarks, and decision support
Leverage Forvis Mazars’ proprietary Freight Network Navigator™ to identify profitability and pricing opportunities
Build AI, automation, and data strategies that support scalable business transformation

What You Can Gain

Technology assessment, selection, and rollout support
Transportation analytics and dashboard development
Master data management study and governance framework
AI strategy and roadmap

Outcomes

We go beyond operational reviews to provide insights that assist in creating measurable impact throughout your business. Here’s what our work can help you build:

Improved profitability and margin visibility
Stronger pricing and network decisions
Reduced transportation and logistics costs
Better route efficiency, asset utilization, and fleet productivity
Greater operational stability and scalability
Higher customer service levels and market share

From Efficiency to Resilience: Navigating Transportation & Logistics Challenges

Hundreds of shipping containers on a dock.

Tim Chitwood, national industry leader, and Rahim Rahim, CFO and business consulting director, share how Forvis Mazars helps transportation and logistics companies navigate a changing business environment.

Freight Network Navigator: See Your Network Clearly

To support your business transformation, we’ve brought something built for it. Freight Network Navigator is Forvis Mazars’ proprietary profitability analysis and network management solution, designed to help transportation organizations better understand the financial performance of their operations. By combining operational, financial, and market data, the platform gives you visibility from a high-level geographic network view down to individual customers, lanes, and loads. This view helps you weigh profitability, sharpen pricing, and make informed operational decisions.

Pinpoint Profitable & Unprofitable Network Segments
See profitability by customer, lane, route, and geography. Uncover hidden margin opportunities and address the areas quietly dragging down performance.
Price Smarter & Protect Revenue
Use market benchmark data and network insight to help evaluate new opportunities, improve contract pricing, and calculate the rates you need to achieve your operating goals.
Drive Data-Backed Network Decisions
Put detailed operational analytics to work—helping improve asset utilization, refining routing, strengthening planning, and aligning network decisions with your profitability objectives.

Driven to know more?

Learn how Freight Network Navigator™ can help you accelerate profitability.