Farm Frites

Farm Frites is an ambitious family-owned company that manages the journey of delicious potato products from farm to fork all over the world. The company selects and grows potatoes and processes and packages them very soon after they are harvested. This growth story began in 1971. It was founded on sound country values such as mutual respect, a sense of responsibility and care for each other and nature. It employs roughly 1,500 people spread across several locations and countries. Farm Frites wants to offer its employees an environment where they can discover and develop their talents.

No more manual calculations

Farm Frites needed a successful approach as it prepared for more growth. The company wanted to increase its efficiency without sacrificing its flexibility.

"Our goal was one complete and integrated solution for workforce planning, time tracking, project logging and access management. The system needed to serve 1,500 employees in multiple countries, each with their own rules and work processes that change frequently. Together with Syntegro, we made that happen." - Corinne Meijer - Farm Frites

One of the first things we needed to do was improve our administrative processes. “We were still using different systems, mostly in Excel. We also still had those old-fashioned clock cards. Our HR staff were spending a great deal of time each month counting working hours. The leave administration was also very time-consuming and that was transferred manually to another system afterwards. We definitely wanted to do better," Corinne Meijer, Managing Analyst at Farm Frites, says. “The manual work had to go."

“We wanted a comprehensive solution for our workforce planning, time tracking, project logging and access management for all our 1,500 employees in different countries. With specific legislation in each country and work processes that keep changing and are often seasonal, the search for a suitable partner was not easy,” Corinne says. “The system also had to be user-friendly and automated."

Simplification

The goal was more efficient administrative processes and a system that adapts to complex situations. “We didn’t want to sacrifice any of our flexibility,” Corinne says. Farm Frites found a perfect partner in Syntegro.

“The Syntegro implementation team actively contributed to our thought process. Its main focus was on our needs and operations, which resulted in solutions that were programmed in the system. We received a package that was completely tailored to our operations.”

Farm Frites is now using the following tools:

• Workforce planning
• Access management
• Time tracking
• Project logging
• Leave registration

“The entire process went extremely well, from the introduction to the implementation and the after-sales service. Syntegro has a team of dedicated programmers ready who know their system inside out. If the company or rules change, it is amazingly easy to adjust everything in the system. The system really is a breath of fresh air for our HR staff.”