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A growing pig-farming business got a digital overview and control 

Prima Svin A/S

Thomas Søby Carstensen

Director at Prima Svin

Prima Svin is a Danish pig farm in Ølstykke, West Jutland, with 22 employees.

With 22 employees and 3 properties, the administrative burden could quickly grow large and time- consuming, but at Prima Svin, director Thomas Søby Carstensen only spends 3 hours a month approving his employees’ working hours. All registration of working hours takes place digitally in Intempus’ time registration system outside the barn.

In Ølstrup near Ringkøbing you will find the Danish pig farm Prima Svin A/S. Torben Poulsen and Thomas Søby Carstensen started the company back in 2017, and today they each own 50% of the company.

Despite its young age, the company has already gone from a production of approx. 1,600 sows to a production of 4,600 sows, 180,000 piglets and 8,000 fattening pigs, while the company today has a feed factory for its own consumption. In December 2020, the business was expanded to three properties, and therefore they felt the need for a new time registration system that could handle the expanding company in terms of both more locations and more employees. 

Larger company, new needs

With the new expansion, Prima Svin needed a solution that could help them maintain an overview of when the employees’ checks in and out. Also, they needed an easy way to get access to the employees’ reports without having to be physically present at all three locations.

And this is where Intempus’ Terminal with check-in/out registration could meet that need.

With Intempus’ cloud-based time registration system, the administrator could easily access all reports regardless of where he was, thus avoiding having to go out and retrieve the data locally on the computer at the various properties. At the same time, it was also possible to see in real time which employees had checked in and which had checked out, and in this way he could maintain an overview of the employees’ activities.

A system adapted to both employer and employee

After a short implementation process with Intempus, Thomas Søby Carstensen introduced it gradually to his employees, so that the transition from the old system to the new one was as easy as possible.

With the help of Terra Connect, which supplies hardware to agricultural companies, Prima Svin A/S had physical terminals set up at their three locations so that employees could easily check in on the farms when they began working and check out when they held a break or went home by the end of the day.

In this way, Thomas Søby Carstensen ensured that the employees’ working hours were always recorded correctly:

“You get paid when you are in the stable, and you don’t get paid when you are not in the stable”, he says.

And with all activities registered directly in the system, there are no longer any discrepancies regarding working hours.

3 hours of administration per month

As in many smaller companies, it is the director, Thomas, who takes care of the administrative work. Fortunately, the digital time registration means that the administrative work does not become too heavy and time-consuming. In fact, it only takes 3 hours a month for Thomas Søby Carstensen to handle the employees’ reports. 

“With Intempus, I use approx. 3 hours each month to approve and possibly correct the registrations, and then the employees each get an overview of their own reports,” he concludes.

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