Star Link Communication- Digitizing the Tea Industry with Tea Garden Solution

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 Such outdated systems are open to human error, buddy punching, attendance fraud, lost wages and late payments.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.