Lara GuevaraSupply Chain expert (Product and Service)

Audit Your Freight Spend

25 May 2026 · 1 min

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Lara Guevara walks through a five-step process to audit freight spending. Pull invoices from the past year, find your top three cost-driving lanes, calculate the all-in cost per container, get current market rates from a broker, then measure the gap. Most companies recover $15,000 to $60,000 a year by renegotiating.

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5 steps to audit your freight spend this week. 1. Pull every freight invoice from the last 12 months. Ocean, air, dryage, last mile, all of it. 2. Identify your top 3 lanes by spend. Origin port to destination, where's the most your money's going. 3. Calculate your all-in rate per container or per kg on each lane. Freight plus surcharges plus insurance. 4. Ask your broker for a current market rate on those same lanes today. 5. Calculate the gap: current rate minus market rate times annual volume. That number is what you are leaving on the table every year you do not renegotiate. For most brands, that gap is between $15K and $60K, and it is completely recoverable, just requires conversation.