Excess Travel, Idle Time, and Overtime from Poor Route and Schedule Coordination

$100-$250 per day in fuel waste and labor inefficiency; $25K-$75K annually • $50–$150 extra cost per mishandled financed installation day from repeat visits, idle time, and overtime, plus 10–30% higher fuel and labor expenses from suboptimal routing and fragmented scheduling across all financed installations, compounding to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for multi‑store retailers. • $50–$150 extra labor and handling cost for each misrouted or rescheduled return/installation day, plus 10–30% higher fuel and overtime from trucks making additional trips and installers staying late to squeeze in rework; for a multi‑store retailer this can quietly add tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Email chains with property managers; technician routes manually reordered mid-shift via phone; appointment times often missed • Financing specialists manually coordinate with dispatch and installers using ad‑hoc notes, emails, phone calls, and basic spreadsheets, while installers self-sequence their day with Google Maps or memory, leading to inefficient multi-stop routes and rescheduled visits. • Manual planning via paper lists, WhatsApp groups, or memory for installer assignments.