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    INDUSTRY: HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES

    DYNAMIC FIELD SCHEDULING AND ROUTE PLANNING SOFTWARE FOR HOUSING

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    The advantages of professional software for Housing Associations and Social Landlords:
    Optimised workforce schedules and efficient route planning
    Tenant-friendly appointments that minimise 'no access' and improve first-time-fix rate
    Rapid cost-optimised response capability in emergencies
    Overall lower operating costs and less time expenditure
     
    MODERN CHALLENGES IN SOCIAL HOUSING PROVISION

    "Free from risks, warm enough, and in an acceptable state of repair." Only a decade ago social housing providers were seeking transformation from within, tackling incremental wins with solutions to clean data, speed payments, and track correspondence. Nowadays, social landlords and housing associations face more external challenges than ever before:

    • Cost inflation
      Fuel, materials, spare parts, and wages
    • Employee retention
      Balanced field service workload, recognition of skills, and cost of living support
    • Speed and productivity
      Pressure to turn around voids to meet placement SLAs and clear wait lists
    • Inspection and compliance backlogs
      Meeting deadlines whilst maintaining overall quality in units and public areas
    • New legislation
      Requirements to track and manage maintenance outcomes for the Tenant Satisfaction Measures
    • Customer service scores
      The live self-service appointment tools that tenants expect

    Whether you employ a DLO (Direct Labour Organisation) or you're a contracted supplier in the housing sector: successful management of these challenges is directly linked to the optimisation of field workforces.
     
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    FLS SOFTWARE FOR FIELD RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE HOUSING SECTOR

    Efficient mobile workforce management and tenant-oriented housing management are indispensable. Tenants are customers who are entitled to seamless use of their facilities without technical problems. Planned maintenance, reactive repairs, compliance inspections, and interior and exterior cleaning must run smoothly.

    Real time scheduling and route planning optimises:

    • Scheduling and Dispatch
    • Customer Services
    • Mobile Workforces
    • Head Office Operations Teams
    • ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) standards

    "The FLS scheduling solution is superb! They have proven an exceptional partner and I heartily recommend FLS to other housing providers."

    Adrian Mostyn · Head of Repairs & Maintenance, Your Housing Group / fix360


    FLS VISITOUR is a developed solution for field service management (FSM) which supports operators in the Housing Association, Local Authority, and Social Landlord sector across their entire estate inventory. The key to this is the unique PowerOpt algorithm. More than 10 years of development and research work on the logistical problems of deployment and route planning have gone into PowerOpt.

    Software solutions from FLS enable you to save costs in scheduling and job order processing and offer your tenants a truly optimised service. Your TTR (time to respond) and TTF (time to fix) will be significantly improved thanks to our powerful technology.

    With solutions from FLS, you get automated dispatch and route planning that gets the best out of your order books and service contracts.

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    "A user-friendly scheduling system that could really increase the productivity of our field operatives whilst reducing travel and back office admin cost."

    Russell Measor · Head of Data and Delivery, Axis Europe
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    "A more dynamic tool, one that continuously optimises, looking at every appointment and every field worker collectively. HomeServe is getting to its customers 25% faster than before."

    Richard Wilson · IT Director, HomeServe
     

    THE FAST LEAN SMART ADVANTAGE:
    TENANT CENTRICITY THROUGH SMART FIELD SERVICE MANAGEMENT

    Combine our innovative field service management software FLS VISITOUR with a deep understanding of housing needs to connect the entire field service value chain through dynamic tools: Always end-to-end and as streamlined as possible.

    FLS partners with many Housing Management, Specialist Housing, and Job Management ecosystems, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 where we enhance Microsoft Field Service over and above RSO. We produce an unmatched level of efficiency and cost control optimisation to replace existing systems such as legacy DRS.

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    Complete Cost Transparency
    Plan the day in seconds with seamless order data from your CRM/ERP, Housing Management System (HMS), or FLS PORTAL. Automatically process large order data with automated consideration of all restrictions. Avoid surprises with dozens of features, such as geocoding and time-of-day speed profiles for maximum optimisation. You always have an overview of the order status and location of the field employee.
    Significant Cost Reduction
    Optimised planning makes your processes more efficient, reduces lost time, fuel use, and miles driven/CO2 emissions. You utilise your field resources optimally and create more productive processing of orders.

    Increased First-Time-Fix-Rate
    The system optimally assigns your field employees to orders based on their skills and availability. This speeds up order processing and increases the success rate. Real-time material handling ensures all parts needed for the job are available. Productivity increases and users report additional completed jobs per operative per day.
    More Precise and Shorter Time Windows
    Schedule service calls fully automatically, planning a wide variety of types of operations, including voids, with pinpoint accuracy and for everyone. Cut appointment offers from 'which day' to 'which hour', with ETA data allowing tenants the option to follow vehicle on a map. Tenants can amend appointments to cost-optimised appointments to reduce no access visits.

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    SUCCESS STORIES FROM OUR CUSTOMERS IN THE SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR

    Discover how you can advance your technical service with award-winning software solutions from FLS through the case studies of our customers. Practical examples show the potential for optimisation that lies in modern solutions for the property industry.




    FLS VISITOUR / MOBILE

    Complex dynamic real-time scheduling of technicians with different skills and linked appointments.

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    FLS VISITOUR / FLS MOBILE

    Increased productivity of repairs team and voids inspections by 25-32%.


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    Smart scheduling of 1190 field workers and online self-service scheduling portal for apartment visits.

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    FLS CUSTOMERS IN THE SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR:


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    DEEP DIVE INTO HOUSING FIELD SERVICE TOPICS

    Read further articles about field service management in the blog.
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    IMPROVE TENANT SATISFACTION MEASURES WITH FIELD WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
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    HOUSING DISREPAIR CLAIMS: CRITICAL ASSETS AND MOBILE WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT
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    COST CONTROL: REACTIVE MAINTENANCE WITH FIELD SERVICE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

    AND THERE'S MORE: MOBILE SUPPORT FOR YOUR OPERATIVES

    With clever Field Service Management solutions for operatives, engineers, and suveryors.
    All processes can be mapped on the go.

    You can combine the FLS VISITOUR deployment and route planning with the mobile app FLS MOBILE. In this way, the tours for the service technicians are optimally planned. All steps - from the dispatch of the field employees to the implementation of the order on site - are regulated. On the go, the system intuitively guides your specialists through all points on a smartphone or tablet. This helps to avoid errors and ensures automated documentation of the orders.
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    The optimisation companion for your service.

    With FLS MOBILE, your technicians receive exactly the information they need to provide ideal service and increase customer satisfaction. Our application is tailor-made for the technical service in the housing and real estate management industry and supports you in every step. From providing the service history to relevant forms, checklists and reports.
    Optimal communication with customers and colleagues.

    With FLS MOBILE, your field service is always connected to the office and planning. What the operative reports on site is fed directly into the central system. In this way, FLS VISITOUR can continuously optimise order planning. And with FLS MOBILE, for example, your customers receive a fully automatic notification via SMS about the operative's arrival. You can also follow the journey live. This keeps the waiting time as short as possible.
    With checklists, job overviews and signature captures, your service technician gets a mobile companion that takes pressure off and increases efficiency.


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    Mobile Field Service Management solutions help field staff to be more productive.



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