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What is manual processing actually costing you?
Most ROI calculators hand you a big number and ask for your email before they explain it. This one shows the arithmetic, lets you change every assumption, and gives you a range rather than a single confident figure, because the honest uncertainty is real.
Recoverable each year
$91,019
Range $65,013 to $110,523 depending on how much of the handling actually automates.
Payback
2.4 months
against a $18,000 build
That payback looks unusually fast. At these numbers you are describing roughly 1.9 full-time people doing nothing but this one task. If that is genuinely the case, it is a strong candidate. If it is not, the volume or the minutes-per-document are probably overstated. Check both before you take this to anyone.
Hours a week on this today
70.7 hrs
Hours a week recovered
49.5 hrs
Of which rework
$19,627/yr
This is an estimate from your own numbers. The part it cannot tell you is whether this workflow is the best one to automate first, or whether your data is clean enough to automate it at all. That is what the audit is for.
See what an AI automation audit coversHow to use the number
Treat it as a scoping figure, not a business case. It is only as good as the two inputs people usually guess at: the minutes each document really takes, and the share that need rework. If you have never measured the second one, time a week of exceptions before you quote this to anyone.
It also assumes the workflow is worth automating at all. A process that runs 400 times a week and takes nine minutes is a good candidate. The same process running twelve times a week is not, however painful it feels, and no calculator will tell you that.
What it deliberately does not model
Warehouse robotics and physical material handling. Those are equipment decisions with their own vendors and their own payback maths. This models back-office document work: orders, purchase orders, supplier invoices and quotes, which is where most distributors and 3PLs are still paying people to retype things that one system already knows.