ROI Calculator
Your operation
What their time costs
An illustrative figure, recovered from costs you are already carrying.
Upside not counted above
Sharper freight negotiation
Carrier on-time and port dwell analytics help you move volume to the lines and lanes that actually perform. Trimming 1% off freight spend at your volume is worth about $0 a year.
Growth without the next hire
Absorbing rising volume with the team you already have is often the largest saving of all — one operator you do not need to hire is worth roughly $15,000 a year.
A faster cash cycle
Documents ready sooner means faster presentation to the bank and faster invoicing — and far fewer courier re-sends, express clearances and last-minute upgrades.
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Assumptions
These start deliberately low, so the figure holds up under scrutiny. Every one of them is yours to change.
Time given back each week
Working year
Missing or late documents
Demurrage, detention and storage
Freight spend (upside only)
How to use this
Start from the closest profile
Small, growing, scaling or large. Each one fills in a typical shipment volume and team size, so you have something sensible on screen before you change anything.
Put your own numbers in
Your shipment count, how many operators handle them, and how many managers chase status. If you only change one thing, make it the shipment count.
Check the assumptions
Behind the Assumptions button sit the hours given back each week, and the rates for missing documents and for demurrage, detention and storage. They start deliberately low. If you know what these actually cost you, use your figures — the result gets more useful, and usually larger.
Read the upside separately
Freight negotiation, a hire you do not have to make and a faster cash cycle are real savings, but they are not in the headline figure. That keeps the number defensible when you take it to a finance colleague.