The “Silent Erosion” Calculator
See exactly how much margin you are losing to manual data entry and unbilled revenue.
Pain-first
The Freight Forwarding Profit Leakage Calculator
Objective, forensic, and urgent. Four inputs your Owner or Ops Director knows without digging up a spreadsheet.
Annual Leakage
£102,000
That is £20,400 per operator each year in avoidable drag.
Bucket A
“Swivel-Chair” Labor Tax
£72,000
Formula: Monthly Volume × £12.00 × 12 months
Manual entry between email, PDF, and TMS drives a £12 per document processing cost (Levvel / Quadient).
Bucket B
Error & Rework Penalty
£12,000
Formula: Volume × 20% × 30 mins × Wage × 12
Fat-finger and HS code mis-keys force rework; KlearStack shows ~23% error rates and 47 mins entry time.
Bucket C
Ghost Revenue
£18,000
Formula: Volume × 1.5% × £200 × 12
Late pass-throughs (chassis splits, amendments) often slip; 1–2% leakage is common in manual AP/AR.
Sales Equivalent Shock
To offset this loss, you need to generate:
£1,020,000
Logistics is a low-margin game. On a 10% net margin, every £1 of leakage requires £10 in new sales to break even. You don't need a bigger sales team; you need to plug the hole.
Methodology & Sources
- Processing Costs: Levvel Research & Quadient benchmarks (~£15+ per manual invoice).
- Labor Time: KlearStack analysis of unstructured docs (47 mins entry + ~23% error rate).
- Demurrage Impact: Standard port tariffs of £100–£180 per day for detention/demurrage.
- Margin Multiplier: Assumes a standard 10% SME net margin to compute revenue offset.
We don't guess. We audit.
This calculator uses industry averages. To get the exact number for your business, we need to look at your TMS and email logs.
What: A forensic Data Audit of your TMS and Email logs.
Cost: £500 (one-time).
Guarantee: If we can’t find efficiency gains that cover the fee, we refund it. No Efficiency Gain, No Fee.