Transportation, Freight & Distribution worked example
Delivery Route Productivity at 66% dispatch uptime: a worked example
Suppose dispatch uptime falls to 66%. This page works the full calculation at that level so you can see exactly which result moves and by how much. Estimate daily successful deliveries from stops per route, available routes, dispatch uptime, and first-attempt delivery success.
The inputs for this scenario
- Stops per route: 18 stops / route (held at the documented default)
- Routes dispatched per day: 24 routes (held at the documented default)
- Dispatch uptime: 66 % (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 92)
- First-attempt delivery success: 96 % (held at the documented default)
Working through the calculation
- The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Gross capacity = stops per route × routes dispatched per day.
- Net delivery route productivity works out to 274 successful deliveries / day at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
- Gross planned capacity works out to 432 successful deliveries / day at these inputs.
- Capacity lost to uptime works out to 147 successful deliveries / day at these inputs.
- Capacity lost to service failures works out to 11.4 successful deliveries / day at these inputs.
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 28.26% below the baseline at 274 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. When the numbers land here, the stressed input is the lever to work; the walkthrough above shows exactly how much each output recovers as it climbs back toward the baseline.
Results at a glance
- Net delivery route productivity: 274 successful deliveries / day (headline result)
- Gross planned capacity: 432 successful deliveries / day
- Capacity lost to uptime: 147 successful deliveries / day
- Capacity lost to service failures: 11.4 successful deliveries / day
Run it with your numbers
- To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Delivery Route Productivity calculator, set dispatch uptime to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.