Field Service Costs and Your P&L: How Search Time Quietly Drains Both
At least 30 minutes disappear before the average field technician can begin the actual repair. That time goes into searching for part numbers, procedures, and documentation across fragmented systems. Across 1,000 technicians and 250 working days, even this conservative estimate adds up to at least 125,000 hours of productive capacity lost to lookup activity. Yet this loss rarely appears as a separate line item on any field service P&L. This is a critical information architecture problem.