Food, drink and agri-food
Internal communications for food and drink manufacturers
The workforce triples in season and empties out when it ends. Blastack onboards each person with a code and gets the hygiene instructions to them, with a record of who has read them.
€1.00 per person per month · No card · No minimum term
What happens today
The four problems that keep coming up
The season multiplies the workforce
From a hundred and twenty people to four hundred in three weeks, and back again. Any onboarding that depends on IT or on a company account arrives too late.
Hygiene instructions you have to evidence
Handling, workwear and cleaning rules have to reach every person who walks into the production hall, and at a BRCGS audit you have to be able to show that they did.
Production, warehouse and field never cross paths
What affects the packing line doesn't affect the field gang. Sending everything to everybody is how people stop reading within a fortnight.
A workforce that doesn't all share a language
The packing hall runs in four languages, and a laminated notice on the wall gets read by whoever reads it.
Use cases
What it gets used for in Food and drink
- Seasonal staff onboarded with a code, in the changing room itself
- Hygiene and handling instructions with a read receipt
- Product or line changeover flagged before the shift starts
- Notice targeted only at the site or the gang affected
- End of season survey: what went wrong and what to repeat next year
- Training material on the phone, with no paper
What we don't solve
It doesn't translate what you publish
We say it here because in this sector it matters: the interface is in twelve languages and posts can be written in those same twelve, but Blastack does not translate your posts for you. If your packing hall runs in Polish, Romanian and Lithuanian, you either write it in each language or you write plain English and accept what that costs you. It isn't a traceability or HACCP system either: it keeps the record that the instruction was read, not the record of what was produced.
Four hundred people come in over three weeks in season. With a code on the changing room wall we had them inside in two days.
What's included
All of this, from €1.00 per person per month
The noticeboard and the directory are in the base fee. Analytics, surveys, documents and chat switch on separately, at between one and ten cents per person.
Noticeboard and announcements
Posts with photo, video and PDF, targeted by site
Reach analytics
What percentage of your workforce has read each announcement
Surveys and employee engagement
Ask your workforce, with breakdowns and real anonymity
Documents with read receipts
Payslips, procedures and policies with proof of reading
Staff directory
Who is who, by department and by site
Roles and moderation
Who publishes, who approves, and what gets logged
Try it on one site and look at the number
Fifteen days, no card. Hand the code out at one plant, publish two announcements and look at what percentage of people read them.
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