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Oct 2020

NZ Gourmet Waiuku Achieves Labour Efficiency and Saves Time

NZ Gourmet Waiuku Achieves Labour Efficiency and Saves Time

BumperCrop is an accurate and reliable indicator of staff performance

 

NZ Gourmet Waiuku is a 4.7 hectare operation with 25 full time staff. They produce premium capsicums that are exported to Japan.

The operation has been using BumperCrop’s staff management system for the past 8 months. The rollout was led by the site's grower, Peter Schrueder. While travelling in the Netherlands last year, Peter visited many growers and reviewed the latest technologies being used. He saw that labour cost was a big focus and that technology was being used to systematically record and report on workers' performance, so as to break-down and attribute exact costs. After evaluating all of the available options, he decided to go with BumperCrop’s solution because of its ease of use, their local support and the ability to continually  adapt the solution to their needs.

Peter needed something which was user friendly so that staff could be responsible for recording the work themselves, and so they didn't have to have supervisors spending their time on this. After an initial trial, staff feedback was that this was a very easy and simple-to-use option.

 

Staff scanning WorkWave™ tags.

“We were able to see the results straight away after we rolled out the system. Each staff member now has their own individual scanner, so that they scan into each row and select which task they are completing.” Data is sent directly to the computer via wifi and result graphs are generated. This means that at any time of the day, Peter can see who is performing well and who needs to work on their speed. “The biggest value it's given to us is extra time. Our previous system involved manually inputting data, which then got converted into graphs. This would take up to 4 hours to complete but now you can see results straight away.” Peter has found this solution particularly valuable right now with rising wage costs coupled with the difficulty in finding workers.

 

Highly motivated team members.

 

Dashboards make it easy to see who is performing the best.

 

 

Peter is planning to display the BumperCrop dashboards on TV monitors in the lunchroom, so that staff will be able to check their own performance at any time. He is also evaluating  additional features, such as integration of  BumperCrop generated timesheets into NZ Gourmet’s payroll system.

(Cover Photo) Peter Schreuder, Grower at NZG Waiuku has been using the BumperCrop system for the past 8 months.

 

 

Click here for more information or contact:

Adam Forbes

adam@mybumpercrop.com

+64 27 351 2512

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