Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
965
Total Travel Cost
$88,003
131,348 miles
Avoidable Cost
$56,798
84,774 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$31,205
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
87.8 mi
$58.86 per WO
Median Excess
8.4 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
24.9%
240 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 472 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$149,184
Labor - Travel
$114,739
Mileage
$4,817
Lodging
$8,602
Airfare
$4,839
Car Rental
$3,132
Per Diem
$4,925
Meals
$0
Other
$8,128

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 579 WOs
$47,276
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 166 mi
Avg Excess: 121.9 mi
Total Excess: 70,561 mi
Outlier Rate: 32.1%
Reactive 386 WOs
$9,522
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 91.2 mi
Avg Excess: 36.8 mi
Total Excess: 14,212 mi
Outlier Rate: 14%

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 395 143.3 mi 84.6 mi 33,420 $22,391
P7 138 244 mi 214 mi 29,538 $19,790
P4 301 74.1 mi 31 mi 9,327 $6,249
PC 40 198.1 mi 173 mi 6,920 $4,636
P5 44 137.2 mi 65 mi 2,858 $1,915
P3 47 102.7 mi 57.7 mi 2,711 $1,816