In the tea gardens, the outsider feels the tranquility and beauty. However, the reality is a bit different. Similar to other industries, tea gardens have many challenges that estate owners and management staff face on a daily routine.
Managing
thousands of workers, tracking tea plucking, maintaining fair wage payments and
keeping operations transparent is a huge task for the tea gardens. The work
becomes even harder due to manual processing. Industry sources estimate that
plantation owners could save a significant amount of their annual operational
costs from the margin of 8 to 12% by avoiding calculation errors, time theft
and labour inefficiencies.
So
what are the ways to deal with those challenges? This is the place where the tea garden solution comes into play. Star Link
Communication has tackled this old problem of tea estates with a complete and
technology based solution.
What is the Problem with Traditional Tea Garden Management?
Even
today, most tea gardens record the attendance, weighment, payment etc through
paper registers with on-site monitoring by paid staffs. Such outdated systems
are open to human error, buddy punching, attendance fraud, lost wages and
late payments. These problems inevitably result in loss of money,
employee management conflict and confusion on the floor.
In
big estates with work force ranging from 1000–3000 workers, manual monitoring
would not be reliable enough for ethical practice.
Presenting Tea Garden Solution from Star Link
Communication
Tea garden
solution is a complete garden management
software to make your
tea gardens more productive by going digital and automating processes for
attendance, weighment of tea leaves and payroll. With full stack of hardware
and software, Star Link Communication enables pin-point accuracy, productivity
and real-time visibility for tea estate operations.
Biometric Attendance System- Accurate,
and Category Based
It
is also very difficult to keep a check on attendance in the tea gardens as
there are huge numbers of staff and varying work categories. Star Link
Communication deals with this problem by offering category based biometric attendance machines.
Workers
are segmented as permanent, temporary or Adhoc workers. Each worker is
allocated for specific work-heads. Field/block based tagging allows management
to track attendance at minutest level.
Finger
print attendance stops buddy punching and time theft which means you know that
only the right person is in the right place. Research suggests that
biometric-based systems can cut attendance cheating rates by as much as 90%.
Tea Weighing for Transparency
Manual
weighing is a long-standing problem plagued by manipulation and disputes. We
combines with digital weighing scales and biometric validation to provide
accurate, tamper proof data.
Following
the plucking, workers biometrically identify themselves at the weighment
station. Information is uploaded in real-time and directly attached to the
worker’s profile. This eliminates errors and also creates impartial and fully
transparent payments, encouraging trust among workers and better productivity.
Automated Payroll: Faster and Error-Free
It
is also time-consuming and error-prone to figure pay for hundreds or thousands
of employees with multiple compensation systems. The tea garden solution does payroll processing based on
work-heads, attendance and output; catering to daily, weekly and ad-hoc piece
rated wage models.
Salary
sheet, TDS summary and payment register are created digitally which saves time
of payroll processing by more than 60%.
Actionable Reports and Complete
Visibility
The
solution generates daily, weekly and monthly reports with category-level,
location-level and work-head level analysis. Discrepancy reports denotes about
any missed attendance or weights, thus allowing proactive management.
Conclusion- Why Choose Star Link Communication’s
Tea Garden Solution?
Tea
garden solution from Star Link Communication provides swift and secure
attendance recording, digital weighment, payroll processing with a click of the
mouse, and data storage for long periods.
If you want to get rid of inefficient operational loss by adopting advanced tea garden management software, reach out to Star Link Communication. With every product, and services come with a free demo. Book a free demo to see how our tea garden solution works.
