Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
1,502
Total Travel Cost
$223,737
333,936 miles
Avoidable Cost
$194,697
290,592 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$29,040
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
193.5 mi
$129.63 per WO
Median Excess
6.8 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
45.2%
679 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 385 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$122,685
Labor - Travel
$43,425
Mileage
$2,419
Lodging
$29,661
Airfare
$12,511
Car Rental
$6,206
Per Diem
$10,150
Meals
$0
Other
$18,313

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 1,244 WOs
$145,459
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 203.6 mi
Avg Excess: 174.5 mi
Total Excess: 217,103 mi
Outlier Rate: 43.4%
Reactive 258 WOs
$49,238
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 312.7 mi
Avg Excess: 284.8 mi
Total Excess: 73,489 mi
Outlier Rate: 53.9%

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 884 219.5 mi 197.8 mi 174,859 $117,156
P5 236 326.2 mi 315.3 mi 74,408 $49,853
PC 307 153.7 mi 100.7 mi 30,906 $20,707
P4 37 220.4 mi 166.1 mi 6,146 $4,118
P7 34 203.5 mi 112.5 mi 3,825 $2,563
P3 4 167.6 mi 112.2 mi 449 $301