Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed

191

Total Travel Cost

$8,781

13,107 miles

Avoidable Cost

$5,999

8,954 excess miles

Optimal Cost

$2,783

If closest tech always used

Avg Excess / WO

46.9 mi

$31.41 per WO

Median Excess

11.9 mi

Outlier Rate (>50mi)

23.6%

45 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 144 WOs with expense data

Total Expenses

$56,347

Labor - Travel

$51,879

Mileage

Lodging

$916

Airfare

$1,933

Car Rental

$596

Per Diem

$525

Meals

Other

$498

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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 65 WOs

$4,863

Avoidable Travel Cost

Avg Actual: 124.4 mi

Avg Excess: 111.7 mi

Total Excess: 7,258 mi

Outlier Rate: 55.4%

Reactive 126 WOs

$1,136

Avoidable Travel Cost

Avg Actual: 39.9 mi

Avg Excess: 13.5 mi

Total Excess: 1,696 mi

Outlier Rate: 7.1%

Monthly Travel Cost Trend

Cost by Priority

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

Priority	WOs	Avg Actual	Avg Excess	Total Excess Miles	Avoidable Cost
PC	8	420.5 mi	406.5 mi	3,252	$2,179
PSM	33	96.3 mi	87.5 mi	2,886	$1,934
P4	134	39.1 mi	12.9 mi	1,724	$1,155
P3	7	92.5 mi	79.7 mi	558	$374
P7	6	72.1 mi	52.9 mi	317	$212
P5	3	81.6 mi	72.0 mi	216	$145