It is the 19th of the month. The managing director of a mid-sized freight forwarding operation sits down to review performance and make pricing decisions for the next quarter.
The report on the screen is from the 1st. It covers shipments that closed three weeks ago, invoiced under rates that may have shifted, on lanes whose profitability has not been validated since the last quarterly spreadsheet was compiled. Every decision made in this meeting is built on data that is already history.
This is the reality of freight forwarding KPIs in most operations today. Not absent entirely, but delayed, fragmented, and manual enough to be commercially useless at the moment decisions actually need to be made.
According to a 2024 report by Aberdeen Group, companies with real-time operational visibility make decisions 3.4 times faster than those relying on periodic reporting, and experience 2.1 times lower operational costs over a 12-month period.
In freight forwarding, where margins are thin and timing is everything, that gap is not an abstraction. It is the difference between catching a loss-making lane in week two and discovering it at quarter-end, after three more months of erosion.
This piece examines why most freight forwarding operations are still running blind, what it costs commercially when they do, and how structured KPI dashboards and operational intelligence are changing the decision-making speed and accuracy of the forwarders who have closed the visibility gap.
Your Monthly Report Is Already Three Weeks Late
Most freight forwarding operations run on a reporting cycle that was designed for a slower era.
Shipment data gets entered into the TMS. Financial data flows into accounting at invoice stage. Operational data sits across carrier portals, email threads, and team spreadsheets. Once a month, usually in the first week after close, someone spends two to four days pulling these sources together into a management report that attempts to tell leadership what happened last month.
By the time that report reaches the managing director's desk, the information is already 15 to 30 days old. The lane that was losing money in week one has been losing money through week four. The carrier whose on-time performance collapsed mid-month has continued to miss commitments. The sales team has quoted the same rates on a margin structure that has already been undermined by surcharge changes nobody captured in real time.
A 2025 survey by Deloitte on logistics management practices found that 58 percent of mid-sized freight forwarders still rely primarily on monthly or bi-weekly reporting cycles, with only 19 percent having access to dashboard-level visibility updated more frequently than weekly. The remaining 23 percent operate on ad hoc reporting, meaning management gets data when someone has time to compile it.
The commercial cost of this lag is not theoretical. It compounds quietly across every decision made between reports. Pricing, staffing, carrier selection, lane strategy: all built on information that describes last month, not today.
As covered in the analysis of the hidden cost of manual freight operations, the structural problem is not that forwarders lack data. It is that the data arrives too late and in the wrong format to drive action.
The Monthly Reporting Gap: Where the Money Goes Missing
For a mid-sized freight forwarding operation, the financial exposure from delayed reporting and manual workflows accumulates across four recurring categories every single month.
Estimates based on industry benchmarks for mid-sized freight forwarders (150-200 shipments/month). Actual exposure increases proportionally with shipment volume and lane complexity.
The pattern above is not caused by incompetence. It is caused by a system architecture that was never designed to produce live data. Every number in that table is recoverable with the right visibility layer in place.
According to the Institute of Finance and Management, organisations using manual invoice matching recover an average of only 62 percent of eligible surcharges, versus 91 percent with automated charge capture. In freight forwarding, where BAF, PSS, and detention can represent 15 to 25 percent of total shipment cost, that gap is not a rounding error. It is a structural margin leak.
What It Costs When You Run on Instinct?
Ask most freight forwarder operations managers how they make pricing decisions, and the honest answer sounds something like this: experience, gut feel, and whatever the last rate sheet said.
That is not a criticism. It is a rational response to an information environment that does not give operators what they need to do anything else. When shipment-level margin data is not available on demand, pricing decisions default to experience. When carrier performance data is not tracked by lane, routing decisions default to relationships. When productivity data does not exist, staffing decisions default to intuition.
The problem is that instinct is a lagging indicator. It reflects what worked in the past, not what is happening now. And in a market where carrier surcharges shift mid-voyage, fuel adjustments arrive without notice, and shipper rate expectations are shaped by real-time digital freight platforms, experience-based pricing is increasingly the slower option.
McKinsey's 2024 analysis of data-driven decision-making in logistics found that operators with real-time operational intelligence make commercially significant decisions 2.6 times faster than those relying on periodic reporting. More importantly, they reverse bad decisions 3.1 times faster, which in freight forwarding is where the real margin protection happens. Catching a poor pricing decision in week two is fundamentally different from catching it at quarter close.
Poor Freight Financial Visibility Breaks Shipment Profitability
A freight forwarder quoting a trans-Pacific lane without live margin data is essentially quoting on memory. The base rate may be accurate. But the fuel adjustment factor from last Tuesday, the terminal handling charge increase at Long Beach that took effect two weeks ago, and the BAF revision from the primary carrier last month: none of these are likely to be reflected in a rate structure built on last quarter's data.
Gartner's 2024 research on logistics billing accuracy found that operations without automated rate-to-invoice reconciliation issued invoices with errors or missing charges on an average of 23 percent of shipments. For a forwarder processing 150 to 200 shipments per month, that error rate translates directly into either margin erosion (underbilled) or client disputes (overbilled) — both of which compound when the reporting cycle is too slow to catch them in time.
The result is a quote that wins the business at a margin the operation cannot actually sustain. The booking comes through, the shipment moves, the invoice goes out, and three weeks later, during the monthly reconciliation, someone notices the lane came in 12 percent below target margin. By then, the client has booked three more shipments at the same rate.
This is the invisible erosion that freight data visibility becoming a competitive advantage directly addresses. Forwarders with live cost data embedded in their quoting workflow do not make this mistake repeatedly. They catch it on the first shipment.
Visibility Gaps Cost More Than Margin: RFQ Competitiveness and Customer Retention
The commercial damage from poor freight KPI visibility does not stop at internal margin erosion. It reaches into two areas that directly determine revenue growth: winning new business and keeping existing accounts.
Enterprise shippers and procurement teams increasingly issue RFQs that require forwarders to demonstrate operational transparency before a contract is awarded. Requests now routinely specify shipment-level cost breakdowns by charge type, digital audit trails showing rate application and surcharge calculation, and carrier performance scorecards updated at minimum weekly. A forwarder who cannot produce these on demand is frequently eliminated at the qualification stage, before pricing is even discussed.
The retention risk is equally direct. A 2025 Procurement Leaders survey found that 67 percent of enterprise logistics procurement managers now include digital reporting capability as a formal evaluation criterion when selecting or renewing freight forwarding contracts, up from 38 percent in 2022. Forwarders without live KPI infrastructure are not just slower to respond to problems — they are visibly less accountable at annual reviews, which is where long-term accounts are won and lost.
The Carrier Decision Problem
Without on-time performance data tracked by lane and carrier, the decision about which carrier to route a shipment through defaults to familiarity and relationship history.
Familiarity is not a KPI. A carrier that performed well on Asia-Europe movements in Q3 may have deteriorated significantly on the same lane in Q4 due to equipment repositioning or port congestion issues. Without a live performance feed tracking actual versus committed ETAs by carrier and lane, the forwarder has no mechanism to detect that shift until a client escalates.
By that point, the damage to the relationship has already been done. The SLA has been missed. The client has documented it. And the forwarder is defending a routing decision that looked reasonable at the time but was made without the data needed to make it well.
The Staffing Problem
Operational bottlenecks in freight forwarding are almost always invisible until they become crises.
Without productivity tracking at the team or individual level, there is no early signal for capacity constraints. The first visible symptom is usually a backlog. By the time it is visible, the root cause has been developing for weeks.
Gartner's 2024 Supply Chain Operations report found that logistics businesses with real-time KPI visibility identified and resolved capacity constraints an average of 18 days faster than those relying on manual reporting. In freight forwarding, that is 18 days of SLA exposure accumulating before anyone with authority to act on it knows it exists.
Most Forwarders Track Shipments, Not Performance
There is an important distinction between tracking a shipment and tracking a business.
Most freight forwarding operations are reasonably good at the former. They know where the containers are. They can produce a status update on any active booking within a few hours. The TMS holds the shipment record. The carrier portals show the current position.
But tracking individual shipments is not the same as tracking operational and financial performance. One tells you where cargo is. The other tells you whether your business is actually making money, which lanes are working, which carriers are reliable, which team members are at capacity, and which clients are at retention risk.
The freight forwarding KPI gap in most operations is not a data problem. It is an interpretation problem. The raw data exists in the TMS, the accounting system, and the carrier feeds.
But it has never been connected, aggregated, and surfaced in a format that allows management to make decisions in real time. As explored in what are KPIs and what role they play in freight forwarding, the difference between an operation that tracks and one that measures is entirely structural.
The Report Nobody Can Pull on Demand
Ask the ops manager of a typical mid-sized freight forwarding operation for the current margin on their top five lanes. Most cannot produce that number in under 24 hours without manual data extraction and spreadsheet work.
Ask for the on-time performance rate by carrier for the current quarter. Same answer. Ask for the quote-to-booking conversion rate for the sales team this month. Often unavailable entirely.
These are not exotic management requests. They are the baseline operational intelligence that any business needs to make informed decisions. The fact that they require hours of manual work to produce in most forwarding operations is a structural problem, not a capacity problem. No amount of additional headcount fixes a system that was never designed to answer these questions quickly.
Volume Is Not a KPI. Margin Is.
The metric most freight forwarding operations track most consistently is volume: number of shipments processed, number of containers moved, number of bookings confirmed.
Volume is a useful health indicator. It is not a performance indicator.
A forwarder who processed 220 shipments last month but generated negative margin on 40 of them has not had a good month. They have had an expensive one.
The volume number looks healthy. The margin number tells a different story. But if margin is only visible at month-end, and only at an aggregate level, the decision to continue quoting those 40 unprofitable shipments at the same rates gets made again next month.
According to why BI and actionable analytics tools are important for freight forwarders, the shift from volume tracking to margin tracking is the single most commercially impactful change most forwarding operations can make, and it requires infrastructure, not effort.
Where Work Slows Down and Nobody Sees It
Operational bottlenecks in freight forwarding rarely announce themselves. They develop gradually in the background, usually in one team or one process area, until the backlog becomes visible through its symptoms: delayed documentation, missed deadlines, elevated error rates, client complaints.
Without real-time shipment level reporting on processing times, documentation turnaround, and exception rates by team member and lane, the managing director of a freight operation has no mechanism to see a bottleneck forming. They see the result of it, typically two to three weeks after it started developing.
A 2024 operational efficiency study by FreightWaves found that freight operations with live productivity dashboards identified workflow bottlenecks an average of 16 days earlier than those without, and resolved them with 60 percent fewer escalations to senior management.
A Spreadsheet Is Not a Reporting Strategy
For many freight forwarding operations, the de facto business intelligence system is a collection of Excel files maintained by two or three people who know which tabs to update and in what order.
This is not a criticism of the people maintaining those files. They are usually doing sophisticated work under real constraints. It is a criticism of treating spreadsheet-based reporting as a sustainable operational infrastructure for a business processing hundreds of shipments per month across multiple lanes, carriers, and client relationships.
Someone Spends Friday Building Last Week's Numbers
In most freight forwarding operations running a manual reporting model, there is a person, often a senior ops coordinator or financial administrator, whose Friday afternoon is largely consumed by pulling data from the TMS, reconciling it with the accounting system, cross-referencing it with carrier invoices, and assembling it into the weekly or monthly management spreadsheet.
That person is not adding value on Friday afternoon. They are performing data plumbing. The work is necessary because the system is not connected. The time cost is real: industry benchmarks from the 2024 FIATA Digital Operations Survey suggest that freight forwarding operations relying on manual reporting spend an average of 11 to 16 hours per week on data compilation tasks that a connected dashboard layer would eliminate entirely.
Those are hours that could be spent on carrier negotiations, client relationship management, exception handling, or the kind of strategic analysis that actually improves margin. Instead they are spent formatting a spreadsheet that will be out of date by Monday morning.
The Data Is Stale Before the File Is Saved
The accuracy problem with spreadsheet-based reporting goes beyond the time it takes to compile. It is also a fundamental limitation of the format itself.
A spreadsheet captures a point in time. The moment it is saved, it begins aging. A carrier updates an ETA. A customs hold is cleared. A surcharge is added to an invoice. None of these events update the spreadsheet. They wait until the next compilation cycle.
Gartner's research on data quality in financial reporting found that spreadsheet-based systems have an average error rate of 88 percent across organisations that use them as primary reporting tools. In freight forwarding, where margin calculations depend on accurate real-time cost capture, an 88 percent error rate is not a quality problem. It is a structural liability.
As detailed in operational complexity in freight forwarding, the complexity compounds as volume grows. What is manageable at 80 shipments a month becomes unworkable at 200.
It Breaks the Moment Your Volume Grows
Spreadsheet reporting systems in freight forwarding have a consistent failure pattern: they work until they do not.
At low volume, a skilled coordinator can keep the files current and accurate. At medium volume, the system requires more time and more people, which adds cost and introduces inconsistency. At high volume, it breaks under its own weight. Errors accumulate, reconciliation takes longer, the weekly report starts arriving on Tuesday instead of Monday, then Thursday, then it stops being weekly altogether.
The forwarder who processed 80 shipments per month without a dashboard and survived is the same forwarder who cannot scale to 180 shipments per month without hiring two additional coordinators whose primary job is maintaining a reporting system that a connected KPI layer would replace. That is not a growth strategy. That is infrastructure debt.
Freight Forwarding KPIs Worth Actually Tracking
Not all KPIs are created equal. Many freight operations that do have some form of reporting are tracking the wrong things, or tracking the right things at the wrong frequency.
The KPIs that drive commercial decisions in freight forwarding are those connected to margin, performance, and risk, measured at the shipment level and updated in real time. Volume metrics, average transit times, and gross revenue figures are useful context. They are not decision-driving intelligence on their own.
The following table shows the six KPIs that consistently produce the most actionable decisions when surfaced through a live dashboard environment. As covered in how real-time data is shaping the future of freight forwarding, the commercial advantage is not in having more data. It is in having the right data available at the moment a decision needs to be made.
The Six Freight Forwarding KPIs That Actually Drive Decisions:
KPIs are most valuable when visible in real time and tracked at the shipment level, not just at aggregate monthly totals. Aggregate data confirms what happened. Shipment-level data enables action before the damage compounds.
The distinction between tracking these KPIs monthly versus in real time is not a technology preference. It is a commercial one. A quote-to-booking conversion rate that arrives in the monthly report tells you what your pricing did last month. The same metric surfaced in a live dashboard tells you what your pricing is doing this week, while there is still time to adjust it.
For forwarders looking to understand how larger operators are using these metrics to compete with larger freight forwarders through actionable insights and reporting, the key is not system scale. It is connection: getting the data that already exists in the TMS and accounting system into a format that answers commercial questions without a Friday afternoon of manual compilation.
Where Better Data Changed Real Outcomes
The two case studies below are drawn from freight forwarding operations that were running standard manual reporting models before deploying structured KPI dashboards. Neither had a service delivery crisis. Both had a visibility crisis that was quietly damaging commercial performance.
Case Study 1: Europe-Asia General Cargo Forwarder
The situation: An 18-person forwarding operation based in Hamburg handling Europe-Asia FCL movements for general cargo and chemical exporters had been growing steadily for three years. Revenue was up. Shipment volume was increasing. By every visible indicator, the business was performing well.
What the numbers actually showed: At the end of Q1 2025, during a quarterly financial review, the finance manager noticed that gross margin had declined by 8.3 percent year-on-year despite the revenue increase. The investigation took two weeks of manually pulling data from the TMS, the accounting system, and three carrier invoice files.
What it revealed: two lanes, a Hamburg-Shanghai FCL service and a Hamburg-Singapore LCL groupage product, had been running at negative margin for at least 11 weeks. Nobody had noticed because nobody had a mechanism to notice. The shipments moved, the invoices went out, and the losses accumulated invisibly in the monthly aggregate.
The daily reporting reality: The ops team produced a weekly shipment status summary every Monday morning. It covered volume, open bookings, and pending documentation. It contained no financial data. Margin was calculated quarterly by the finance manager using a cost-allocation model that had not been updated since the previous year's carrier rate negotiations. Surcharge changes, BAF revisions, and terminal fee adjustments during the 11-week period had never been captured.
What changed: The forwarder deployed a KPI dashboard layer connected to their existing TMS and accounting system. Shipment-level margin became visible within 48 hours of booking confirmation, updated as actual costs came in from carrier invoice feeds. Lane profitability was visible in real time across all active trade lanes. Alerts were configured to flag any shipment where projected margin fell below a defined threshold.
Results at 90 days:
Finance manager: "The 11-week loss on those two lanes was $38,400. The dashboard would have caught it in week two. We were essentially running blind on a third of our revenue base and calling it normal because that is how it had always worked."
The takeaway: Freight forwarding KPIs at the shipment level are not a reporting upgrade. They are a margin protection mechanism. The gap between aggregate monthly reporting and real-time lane-level visibility is where margin silently disappears.
Case Study 2: Trans-Pacific NVOCC Operator, North America
The situation: A 24-person NVOCC operation handling trans-Pacific eastbound movements for BCO and mid-market importer accounts was experiencing a pattern they could feel but not measure. Bookings were slipping. A few BCO accounts had reduced volume. Two had requested service review meetings without specifying the agenda. The operations team felt stretched. But there was no data infrastructure to identify where the constraint actually was.
What was actually happening: The company had no productivity tracking at the team or individual level. Shipments were assigned based on availability, not workload balance. One senior file handler was processing 34 percent of all active files, a fact that nobody knew until the dashboard surfaced it. When that person took a week's leave, the processing backlog doubled. Documentation delays cascaded into missed cut-offs. Two BCO shipments missed their sailing dates. Those were the meetings waiting in the calendar.
The operational workflow before: The operations manager ran the team using a shared booking register in a spreadsheet updated manually each morning. Productivity was assessed informally, based on visible busyness and whether the end-of-day checklist was completed. There was no mechanism to see that one person was carrying the load that three people should have been sharing, or that file processing times had increased by 34 percent over the previous six weeks.
What changed: The forwarder deployed a real-time KPI dashboard covering individual productivity, file processing time by booking type, documentation turnaround, and SLA compliance by carrier and lane. The workload imbalance surfaced within three days. Files were redistributed and a junior handler was cross-trained on the high-volume file type that had been concentrated in one person.
The dashboard also revealed that trans-Pacific eastbound bookings via one carrier were taking an average of 1.4 days longer to process than alternatives, a routing inefficiency invisible in aggregate data. This is what carrier API integration in freight forwarding enables: not just tracking, but operational decisions based on live performance data.
Results at 6 months:
Operations manager: "We had a workload problem hiding inside a volume problem. The dashboard did not fix anything by itself. It showed us exactly where to look, and we fixed it in a week. Without it, I think we would have lost at least one of those BCO accounts before we figured out what was happening."
The takeaway: Operational bottlenecks in freight forwarding are almost always fixable once they are visible. The delay is rarely in the solution. It is in the detection. Real-time operational KPIs compress that detection window from weeks to days.
Same Operation. Clearer Picture.
The most common misconception about KPI dashboards in freight forwarding is that deploying one requires a major system change.
What Gets Connected
The data already exists in most operations. It lives in the TMS, the accounting system, and the carrier invoice feeds. The gap is not data volume. It is data connectivity.
A KPI dashboard layer connects these sources and surfaces them in a format that answers commercial questions without a spreadsheet in between. Ops teams do not change how they process shipments. Finance teams do not change how they manage invoices. As detailed in how digital freight platforms are replacing manual processes for BCOs, the intelligence layer sits above existing infrastructure, not inside it.
What Actually Changes
Dashboard access is configured against the existing TMS data model. Carrier invoice feeds connect through API integrations. KPI thresholds and alert rules are set against the operation's existing margin targets and SLA commitments. The team starts seeing live data within two to three weeks, without changing a single workflow.
What changes is the quality of decisions made in management meetings. Pricing discussions move from last month's aggregates to this week's lane-level data. Carrier selection moves from relationship preference to documented performance. Staffing discussions move from visual estimates of busyness to measured productivity rates. The operation does not get rebuilt. It gets legible.
Size Is Not the Barrier Anymore
For smaller and mid-sized operations concerned that this level of visibility is only for larger competitors: the infrastructure gap between a 15-person operation with a connected KPI layer and a 200-person operation with one has largely closed.
The advantage is no longer in headcount or system scale. As the analysis in how freight forwarders compete with larger operators through actionable insights and reporting shows, it is in decision speed. And that is now accessible at any operation size.
Questions Operators Ask Before Deploying a KPI Dashboard
Q1: What freight forwarding KPIs should I prioritise tracking first?
Start with shipment-level margin and invoice accuracy rate. These two metrics directly protect revenue and are most commonly invisible in manual reporting models. Once lane-level profitability is visible, add on-time performance by carrier and quote-to-booking conversion rate. Productivity tracking by team member comes next. The sequence matters: financial visibility first, operational visibility second, commercial optimisation third.
Q2: Do I need to replace my TMS to get real-time KPI reporting?
No. A KPI dashboard layer connects to your existing TMS and accounting system without replacing either. The TMS remains the operational record. The dashboard reads from it, aggregates the data, and surfaces it in a decision-ready format. Most deployments are configured against existing data models within two to three weeks, with no change to the team's operational workflow.
Q3: How quickly does useful data appear after deployment?
Meaningful lane-level and shipment-level data is typically visible within the first two to four weeks, depending on active shipment volume. Historical data from the TMS can be imported to provide immediate context on lane performance and carrier reliability. Live data begins accumulating from day one. Most operations identify at least one actionable insight, a loss-making lane, a carrier underperformance pattern, or a pricing gap, within the first 30 days.
Q4: What is the difference between operational KPIs and financial KPIs in freight forwarding?
Operational KPIs measure process performance: on-time delivery, documentation turnaround, booking processing time, SLA compliance, exception rates. Financial KPIs measure commercial outcomes: shipment-level margin, invoice accuracy, cost per lane, revenue per booking. Both categories are necessary. Operational KPIs tell you how the team is performing. Financial KPIs tell you whether the business is profitable. Real-time freight forwarding KPIs require visibility into both simultaneously.
Q5: Can a smaller freight forwarder benefit from KPI dashboards or is this only viable for large operators?
Smaller operations often benefit more. A 15-person forwarding operation running 120 shipments per month has less margin for error than a 200-person enterprise. Every loss-making lane, every missed surcharge, every undetected bottleneck has a proportionally larger impact. The infrastructure cost of a dashboard layer is fixed. The return scales with how many bad decisions it prevents.
Blind Decisions Today Become Next Quarter's Losses
The freight forwarding operations losing margin quietly in 2026 are not losing it through dramatic failures. They are losing it through the gap between when something goes wrong and when they find out about it. A lane that turned unprofitable in week two. A carrier whose performance degraded three weeks ago. A billing error that compounded across six shipments before anyone reconciled the invoices. A workload imbalance building for a month, about to produce a missed cut-off that costs an account.
The freight forwarding KPI gap is not a data collection problem. Most operations already have the data. It is a data architecture problem. The information exists in the TMS, the accounting system, and the carrier feeds. It has just never been connected and surfaced in a format that allows management to act on it in time. The forwarders who have closed that visibility gap are not running smarter operations in theory. They are repricing lanes before the losses compound.
They are reallocating workload before the backlog becomes a missed cut-off. They are walking into annual account reviews with documented performance data instead of a handshake and a hope. That is not a system advantage. It is an information advantage. And in a market where margins are compressed and procurement teams are measuring performance formally, the forwarder who sees a problem on day three has a fundamentally different position from the one who sees it on day twenty-one.
The decisions being made blind today are the margin losses that will show up in next quarter's numbers. The forwarders who close the visibility gap now are building a compounding advantage that gets harder to close the longer it runs.
See What Your Freight Operation Is Actually Doing
Every week a freight forwarding operation runs without shipment-level margin visibility is a week where pricing decisions are made on assumption, carrier routing on habit, and staffing allocation on intuition.
The cost compounds across every shipment processed, every invoice issued, and every account relationship sitting on the edge of a service level that nobody is currently measuring.
The forwarders recovering that margin are not doing it by working harder. They are doing it by making the data they already have visible in real time, at the level of granularity that actually drives decisions.
GamaSuite connects to your existing TMS and ERP infrastructure without replacing either. It surfaces shipment-level margin, carrier performance, invoice accuracy, and team productivity in a live dashboard environment that answers the questions your management meetings currently cannot. Missed surcharges get flagged before the billing window closes. Loss-making lanes surface in days, not months. Your ops team keeps working exactly as they do today.
For operators who want to move from operational visibility to strategic intelligence, Stratishub transforms that live KPI data into forward-looking insights: which lanes to grow, which accounts are at risk, where the next margin opportunity sits. Climax Ultimate brings financial and operational data into a single unified environment, giving leadership a complete picture of business performance without a spreadsheet in the room.
If your operation cannot produce a shipment-level margin report on demand today, you are already carrying costs you cannot see. Schedule a demo to see what live KPI visibility changes for an operation your size, and what the margin recovery looks like in the first 90 days.