Calculate break-even margins

TLNplanner internet calculates the contribution margin of a trip using the costs arising and the selling price of the complete trip or the selling prices of individual orders.

Selling price of the complete trip

• Enter the stop-off points or the orders on your trip.

• Select the vehicle that should complete this trip.

  Notes:
  If the vehicle is assigned a cost profile and a wage profile, this will be automatically shown in the route planning settings and taken into account for the cost calculation (see Create cost profile and Create wage profile). If this is not the case, a cost/wage profile can be selected in the route planning settings (see Specifying settings for route planning).
  If you select a reference vehicle, the assumption is always that a vehicle is fully loaded. The calculated empty journey percentage is therefore always 0.00%.

• Select whether the trip should be completed with one or two drivers.

• Calculate the route.

• Go to the Break-even analysis view.

  You can get an overview of the costs and the empty journey percentage.

• Enter the desired selling price for the trip and confirm by pressing Enter.

  

   

TLNplanner internet determines the margin.

Selling price of individual orders.

• Enter the stop-off points or the orders on your trip.

  Note: If you already know for what price you would like to offer the order, you can enter the planned selling price in the order or at the stop-off point (see Editing stop-off points or Create orders).

• Select the vehicle that should complete this trip.

  Notes:
  If the vehicle is assigned a cost profile and a wage profile, this will be automatically shown in the route planning settings and taken into account for the cost calculation (see Create cost profile and Create wage profile). If this is not the case, a cost/wage profile can be selected in the route planning settings (see Specifying settings for route planning).
  If you select a reference vehicle, the assumption is always that a vehicle is fully loaded. The calculated empty journey percentage is therefore always 0.00%.

• Select whether the trip should be completed with one or two drivers.

• Calculate the route.

• Go to the Break-even analysis view.

  

  You get an overview of costs, the selling price and the achieved margin.

• If you would like to adapt the selling prices for individual orders, double-click in the corresponding field in the Selling price column.

  Tip: If the column is not visible, show it by clicking on any column header and choosing the Selling price (actual) field.

• Enter a new selling price and confirm by pressing Enter.

TLNplanner internet determines the margin using the modified values.