What Your Freight Network is Really Costing You in This Market: How to Use Network Assessments to Unlock Cost and Service Gains

Most logistics leaders are constantly tuning their networks—tweaking routing guides, renegotiating contracts, and firefighting exceptions. What’s missing is a clear, end‑to‑end view of how the network is performing and where structural changes would move both cost and service, not just one or the other.

This webinar walks through a structured way to map lanes, modes, routing guides, providers, and exception patterns and translate them into quantified cost and service opportunities. Using real examples from Uber Freight’s network assessments across various industries, we’ll demonstrate how a disciplined methodology can reveal opportunities to redesign lanes and inbound flows, strengthen routing guides, rebalance mode and carrier mix, and introduce capacity levers—unlocking durable improvements in freight cost position while maintaining or improving service. We’ll also cover how to turn assessment findings into an executive‑ready narrative to drive meaningful business strategy.

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

• Know what a modern transportation network assessment should include

Understand the core components of network assessment: mapping lanes and flows, routing guides, carrier and broker mix, spot exposure, exception patterns, and tool/partner fragmentation across the network.

• Quantify where cost is leaking today

Learn how to identify cost risk from unmanaged spot, routing‑guide erosion, fragmented providers, and sub‑optimal mode choices—and how to translate those issues into an addressable savings range rather than abstract “inefficiency.”

• Diagnose service and OTIF problems with real benchmarks

See how to separate carrier performance issues from structural design issues using network‑level benchmarks and lane/facility performance indexing, so you know whether to adjust partners, modes, or the network design itself.

• Turn assessment insights into a managed operating model

Understand how findings from a network assessment feed into a practical plan: stronger routing guides, exception workflows, and governed capacity levers (spot, intermodal, consolidation, co‑loading) that protect both cost position and service over time.

• Build a defensible cost and resilience story for leadership

Learn how to use assessment outputs to give your CFO and board a clear, data‑backed view of current risk, improvement opportunities, and expected impact—so transportation shifts from a perpetual “risk category” to a governed, explainable operating model.