2,000 man hours a day saved by mobile data collection.
Fruit pickers are paid GBP5 an hour by S&P Produce. By introducing mobile technology the company has reduced queuing time for fruit pickers, saving at least 40 minutes for each picker per day, but possibly as much as 60 minutes. With 2,000 workers that makes a saving of 2,000 hours, or GBP10,000 per day.
"Each team of 60 fruit pickers is issued with a mobile device that scans unique codes on the picker's identity card and the fruit collection trays, and sends the data to the server over GPRS". This reduces the time each worker queues at a weighing station.
"The accuracy and speed of access to the data such as automated timesheets also means fare fewer queries and errors", says André Simon, S&A IT director.
Reported in Computing, 17 August 2006, p. 8.
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