Accurate address and location data are essential for organisations in the Logistics and Distribution sector to keep costs down and help the environment through reduced journeys.
AFD’s Address lookup and cleansing solutions help with last mile delivery accuracy, matching a customer to a validated address, optimised delivery order and minimising failed deliveries.
Every day, AFD’s unique software solutions maximise operational efficiency and accuracy and help deliver over 1 million parcels.
Name, Address and Location data can be validated and appended to help ensure your systems have clean data and deliveries are efficient and accurate – including final mile deliveries!
Without the AFD element providing a valid address, a route planner would have to plan the route by manually locating it using mapping software and dropping a ‘pin’. This would be a relatively quick process in isolation, but we have over 1600 vans distributing from over 100 depots, each with route planners. This job is done first thing in the morning in a time-pressurised environment and, without the quality data that AFD provide, it would quickly lead to frustration for the route planners and would needlessly slow down the process.
Head of Business Systems at APC Overnight
Address validation saves time and money. It is the backbone of excellent service, customer retention, data analysis, prevention of duplicates, enhanced reputation and more profitable business performance.
Maintaining a clean, duplicate-free customer, supporter, student, member or prospect address database underpins the foundations of effective marketing, high-quality customer service and punctual delivery.
AFD provides latitude and longitude coordinates at property level, showing a pinpoint location of an address on your chosen mapping tool. Logistics companies have full confidence that an address can be navigated to precisely and the delivery will be successful.
| Grouping | Dataset | Description | Demo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Address | UDPRN | Royal Mail Unique Delivery Point Reference Number assigned to this letter box. | Try It |
| Business | Phone | STD Code or Phone Number. | Try It |
| Business | Business | Provides a description of the type of business. | Try It |
| Business | Size | Gives an indication of the number of employees of an organisation at this particular office. | Try It |
| Business | SIC Code | Gives an indication of the number of employees of an organisation at this particular office. | Try It |
| Business | Location Type | The type of Business Location, e.g. Head Office or Branch Office. | Try It |
| Business | Branch Count | The number of branches for this business. | Try It |
| Business | Group ID | An ID of the Group where a business is part of a wider group. | Try It |
| Business | Turnover | The modelled annual turnover for the business. | Try It |
| Business | National Size | Gives an indication of the number of employees of an organisation covering all sites. | Try It |
| Demographics | Censation Code | Censation Code assigned to this Postcode. | Try It |
| Demographics | Censation Label | Label for the Censation Code. | Try It |
| Demographics | Affluence | Provides a description of affluence. | Try It |
| Demographics | Lifestage | Provides a description of life stage. | Try It |
| Demographics | Additional Census Info | Additional information from the Census. | Try It |
| General | UPRN | This is an optional data field and requires a licence to return. | Try It |
| Geographical | Urban Rural Code | Provides a description which goes along with the Urban Rural Code. | |
| Geographical | Grid E | Grid Easting as a 6 digit reference. | Try It |
| Geographical | Grid N | Grid Northing as a 6 digit reference. | Try It |
| Geographical | Latitude | Latitude representation of Grid Reference in Decimal Format (WGS84) 9 digit reference (53.6655850). | Try It |
| Geographical | Longitude | Longitude representation of Grid Reference in Decimal Format (WGS84) 9 digit reference (53.6655850). | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Just Built | Contains the date of inclusion on PAF for properties thought to be recently built. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Postcode Type | L for Large User Postcode, S for Small User. Large user postcodes are allocated to single addresses (usually businesses) that receive at least 500 mail items per day. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Address Type | Indication of the type of property level data to capture to have the full address for a property on the selected postcode. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Address Type Description | Description matching the Address Type. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Occupancy | Indication of the type of occupants of properties found on the selected postcode. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Occupancy Description | Description matching the Occupancy. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Multiple Residency Indicator | Indicates if an address is a multiple residency address, e.g., a flat within a building with a single delivery point. This is a single character – O for Multiple Residency Owner, M for Multiple Residency address. 1 where the flag is indicated, 0 where the flag is not valid. This is only available to Multiple Residency users. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Not Yet Built | Identify and deliver services to the addresses of properties that are at the planning and construction stage. | Try It |
| Property Characteristics | Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) | Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are required by law. They give indication of how much it will cost you to heat and light the property, and how much CO2 the property emits. | Try It |
Getting to the postcode is easy, getting to the right address is where the value lies for logistics companies. Many deliveries rely on postcode level grids at the centre of a postcode, in some instances this can be 15 minutes away from the target property, potentially leading the delivery to fail, or causing knock-on effects on the rest of the driver’s deliveries. Property level grid references give you full confidence that you can navigate precisely to your customer’s address and make a successful delivery.
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All addresses have a property classification, e.g., Residential or Business, allowing for time-sensitive deliveries to be planned properly and for insight into the types of deliveries that are taking place each day.
AFD’s occupancy indicator helps identify occupancy at postcode and property level, indicating if it is business, residential or mixed occupancy.
The types returned are as follows:
Further indicators provide details about a property with the following information returned:
We serve thousands of organisations and a network of hundreds of partners across multiple industry sectors, enabling them to have full confidence in their contact data.