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FLS - FAST LEAN SMART SHORTLISTED TWICE AT THE HOUSING DIGITAL INNOVATION AWARDS 2024
08 January 2024 · James Alex Waldron
The accomplishment continues a successful 2023, following a win for Best Technology Partner at the Northern Housing Awards and its double win at the European Field Service Awards, where FLS' best-of-breed dynamic scheduling and route optimisation software FLS VISITOUR won Technology Innovation of the Year together with customer Amey Secure Infrastructure winning Pioneers of the Year.
FLS is leading the way with field service at the Housing Digital Innovation Awards, with the FLS team attending the Awards ceremony as part of Housing Digital Live in Birmingham in February. FLS will be showcasing technology best practice over the two days and will present a keynote with Direct Works.
The FLS VISITOUR multi-award-winning solution is driving innovation across more than 500,000 homes, creating a world class, holistic experience for customers in real time. Partnering with UK and European affordable housing providers, FLS' innovative solutions are delivering huge productivity improvements for field-based housing operations. UK customers, including Your Housing Group, Axis Europe, Amey (Ministry of Defence housing repairs) and HomeServe, are closing up to 30% more jobs per day per field operative, lowering costs and achieving soaring tenant satisfaction scores by getting to appointments quicker.
Schedules are automatically created with a greater opportunity for a first-time fix. Embedded route plans are designed to save fuel and CO2 emissions, with fewer miles driven per job.

Jeremy Squire, Managing Director at FLS - FAST LEAN SMART UK said;
"Congratulations to all those shortlisted for Housing Digital's Innovation Awards. It's fantastic to be shortlisted in the Housing Digital awards, which champion best practice. We are delighted that our best-of-breed field service scheduling and route optimisation software FLS VISITOUR is leading the way and sits amongst the UK housing sector's brightest lights, including our technology partners Active Housing by Plentific, ROCC, and Voicescape. Our technology is ensuring huge gains in the dynamic, real-time scheduling of repairs and maintenance, and other field-based housing teams. We look forward to seeing customers and partners from across the UK housing sector at Housing Digital Live and on the Awards evening."
FLS VISITOUR's ground-breaking dispatching delivers lightning-fast embedded route optimisation, which is continually updating in the background to provide the most efficient route for repairs and maintenance operatives, gas teams, voids surveyors, compliance inspectors, rent and housing officers.
FLS uses time-of-day traffic based speed profiles, and geocoded mapping to plan exact routes that operatives can reliably achieve on time. Skills and materials rules maximise sooner attendance, first-time fix rates, and customer experience is optimised with support for 24×7 self-service, automated messaging, and live ETA. The solution minimises no-access rates and is operative-friendly thanks to intelligent real-time optimisation, including same day and rapid response.

JAMES ALEX WALDRON
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James Alex Waldron has worked in written communications for over 15 years. Since 2021, he has written for FLS and the Solvares Group on the topics of digital field service transformation and mobile workforce management, and regularly provides insight to the industry press.