Travel & Margin Analysis

Quantify excess travel cost and identify optimization opportunities across your field service operation

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WOs Analyzed
1,645
Total Travel Cost
$137,777
205,637 miles
Avoidable Cost
$82,867
123,683 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$54,910
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
75.2 mi
$50.38 per WO
Median Excess
6.5 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
22.9%
376 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 939 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$316,957
Labor - Travel
$241,366
Mileage
$6,987
Lodging
$20,401
Airfare
$11,676
Car Rental
$5,360
Per Diem
$12,400
Meals
$0
Other
$18,766

Schedulable vs Reactive — Where Can You Optimize?

Planned/PM work is schedulable — excess travel here is the most actionable. Reactive work has urgency constraints.

Planned 952 WOs
$59,875
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 142.6 mi
Avg Excess: 93.9 mi
Total Excess: 89,366 mi
Outlier Rate: 27.3%
Reactive 693 WOs
$22,992
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 100.8 mi
Avg Excess: 49.5 mi
Total Excess: 34,317 mi
Outlier Rate: 16.7%

Monthly Travel Cost Trend

Cost by Priority

PSM/PC (planned) priorities should have the lowest excess — they have the most scheduling flexibility.

PriorityWOsAvg ActualAvg ExcessTotal Excess MilesAvoidable CostExcess Distribution
PSM 650 139.6 mi 78.3 mi 50,871 $34,084
P7 185 211.9 mi 170.7 mi 31,578 $21,157
P4 543 76.6 mi 36.0 mi 19,562 $13,107
PC 81 158.8 mi 126.3 mi 10,229 $6,853
P3 83 126.7 mi 83.6 mi 6,937 $4,648
P5 103 104.5 mi 43.7 mi 4,505 $3,018