Transportation, Freight & Distribution worked example

Delivery Route Productivity at 99% dispatch uptime: a worked example

Push dispatch uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. Use it to size route count, driver staffing, dock waves, or delivery promises for a distribution day.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Stops per route: 18 stops / route (unchanged)
  • Routes dispatched per day: 24 routes (unchanged)
  • Dispatch uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 92)
  • First-attempt delivery success: 96 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross capacity = stops per route × routes dispatched per day) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 411 successful deliveries / day for net delivery route productivity, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 432 successful deliveries / day for gross planned capacity.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4.32 successful deliveries / day for capacity lost to uptime.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 17.11 successful deliveries / day for capacity lost to service failures.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where dispatch uptime sits at 92% and the headline result is 382 successful deliveries / day, this scenario comes in 7.61% above the baseline at 411 successful deliveries / day.
  • It computes net successful deliveries per day by taking gross planned capacity and derating it for dispatch uptime and first-attempt delivery success. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Net delivery route productivity: 411 successful deliveries / day (headline result)
  • Gross planned capacity: 432 successful deliveries / day
  • Capacity lost to uptime: 4.32 successful deliveries / day
  • Capacity lost to service failures: 17.11 successful deliveries / day

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Delivery Route Productivity calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.