Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
827
Total Travel Cost
$78,070
116,523 miles
Avoidable Cost
$66,927
99,891 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$11,143
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
120.8 mi
$80.93 per WO
Median Excess
38.7 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
48.9%
404 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 126 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$40,326
Labor - Travel
$12,705
Mileage
$237
Lodging
$12,888
Airfare
$1,483
Car Rental
$2,348
Per Diem
$4,275
Meals
$0
Other
$6,390

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 496 WOs
$49,155
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 170 mi
Avg Excess: 147.9 mi
Total Excess: 73,366 mi
Outlier Rate: 56.9%
Reactive 331 WOs
$17,772
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 97.3 mi
Avg Excess: 80.1 mi
Total Excess: 26,525 mi
Outlier Rate: 36.9%

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 455 170.3 mi 152.6 mi 69,435 $46,521
P5 301 95 mi 82.4 mi 24,800 $16,616
PC 44 179.9 mi 108.8 mi 4,787 $3,207
P4 23 99.3 mi 31.2 mi 718 $481
P7 2 65.6 mi 38.4 mi 77 $52
P3 1 85.8 mi 65.7 mi 66 $44