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
Business
Phone
Gives an indication of the number of employees of an organisation at this particular office.
Business
Business
Gives an indication of the number of employees of an organisation at this particular office.
Business
Size
Gives an indication of the number of employees of an organisation at this particular office.
Business
SIC Code
Standard Industry Classification Code for an organisation record.
Business
LocationType
The type of Business Location, e.g. Head Office or Branch Office
Business
BranchCount
The type of Business Location, e.g. Head Office or Branch Office
Business
GroupID
An ID of the Group were a business is part of a wider group.
Business
Modelled
Turnover
The modelled annual turnover for the business.
Business
NationalSize
Gives an indication of the number of employees of an organisation covering all sites.
Geo
graphical
UrbanRural
Code
Provides a code which indicates if an area is mainly urban or rural and how sparsely populated those areas are.
Geo
graphical
UrbanRural
Name
Provides a description which goes along with the UrbanRuralCode.
Property Charact-
eristics
JustBuilt
Contains the date of inclusion on PAF for properties thought to be recently built.
Property Charact-
eristics
AddressType
Indication of the type of property level data to capture to have the full address for a property on the selected postcode.
Property Charact-
eristics
Occupancy
Indication of the type of occupants of properties found on the selected postcode.
Property Charact-
eristics
Multiple
Residency
Indicator
This is an optional data field and requires a licence to return.
Property Charact-
eristics
NotYetBuilt
Identify and deliver services to the addresses of properties that are at the planning and construction stage.
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.
What’s the split between B2B and B2C deliveries for your organisation?
Are deliveries failing because a driver tried to deliver after 6 pm to a commercial address?
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.
