Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
2,291
Total Travel Cost
$114,318
170,624 miles
Avoidable Cost
$74,174
110,707 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$40,161
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
48.3 mi
$32.37 per WO
Median Excess
8.6 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
17.5%
400 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 1,362 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$333,140
Labor - Travel
$251,802
Mileage
$13,545
Lodging
$23,255
Airfare
$6,972
Car Rental
$9,529
Per Diem
$7,050
Meals
$0
Other
$20,986

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 1,335 WOs
$59,395
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 94.5 mi
Avg Excess: 66.4 mi
Total Excess: 88,649 mi
Outlier Rate: 23.4%
Reactive 956 WOs
$14,779
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 46.5 mi
Avg Excess: 23.1 mi
Total Excess: 22,058 mi
Outlier Rate: 9.2%

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 1,008 98.1 mi 67.6 mi 68,099 $45,626
P5 252 98.7 mi 83.3 mi 20,982 $14,058
PC 85 132.7 mi 108.1 mi 9,187 $6,155
P4 482 35.2 mi 12.5 mi 6,028 $4,039
P3 152 43.7 mi 26.7 mi 4,061 $2,721
P7 312 38.4 mi 7.5 mi 2,350 $1,575