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Food Production Success Story

Kerrigans Butchers

Discover how Kerrigans Butchers, a renowned multi-award-winning craft butcher, transformed its workforce operations with app’s all-in-one platform. The business simplified shift scheduling, improved compliance, and streamlined recruitment across its five locations in Ireland.

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Kerrigans Butchers

Kerrigans is a name synonymous with craft butchery in Ireland. Family-run and passionate about premium produce, Kerrigans has grown into a multi-award-winning butcher group with five stores across the country.

Kerrigans were among the first to achieve the Certified Craft Butcher standard in 2012, setting a benchmark for quality and service in the industry.

As the business expanded, Kerrigans faced growing HR challenges. Manual scheduling, paper-based processes, and fragmented data made it difficult to manage staff efficiently across multiple shops. To continue its growth while maintaining compliance and staff engagement, Kerrigans needed a modern HRMS and workforce management platform that could scale with the business.

Overview

Company Kerrigans Butchers
Location Ireland
Industry Retail & Food Processing

Explore this case study if:
  • You have a team across different locations that requires complex shift scheduling and time-tracking
  • You’re currently running your HR processes in a paper or spreadsheet format 
  • You're looking to grow and expand your business with compliance in mind
  • You want to attract and retain the best talent to your business

What Was Needed

As Kerrigans Craft Butchers continued to grow and evolve, they encountered various challenges in managing their workforce effectively.

With teams stationed across multiple locations, the intricacies of scheduling shifts and accurately tracking employee hours become paramount for maintaining payroll efficiency and operational effectiveness.

As Kerrigans continued to grow, they identified several workforce management challenges:

  • Complex Shift Scheduling: Managing rotas across five locations, balancing part-time and full-time staff, and ensuring fair shift allocation.
  • Accurate Time-Tracking: Eliminating reliance on manual timesheets to reduce payroll errors and ensure accurate hours worked.
  • Centralised HR Records:  Moving away from paper and spreadsheets to a single HR platform for employee information, contracts, and compliance.
  • Recruitment & Onboarding: Introducing an applicant tracking system (ATS) to streamline hiring and seamlessly onboard new employees.
  • HR Compliance: Keeping up with evolving Irish employment law and industry regulations with digital contracts and audit-ready records.
  • Employee Engagement: Empowering staff with mobile access to rotas, policies, and leave requests.

Where We Came In

Our role in delivering a world-class platform for an award-winning business.

app delivered a complete HRMS and workforce management software solution tailored for multi-site food retailers like Kerrigans.

With features including smart rotas, automated time-tracking, integrated payroll reporting, and an ATS, Kerrigans gained the tools needed to improve workforce efficiency, ensure compliance, and support growth.

With app, Kerrigans Butchers achieved:

  • Smart Shift Scheduling: Managers build and adjust rotas in minutes across all five locations, ensuring staff coverage and fair allocation.
  • Automated Time-Tracking: Employees clock in via mobile or on-site, reducing payroll errors and disputes over hours.
  • Integrated Payroll Reporting:  Rota and attendance data flow into payroll reports, saving admin time and improving accuracy.
  • Applicant Tracking & Onboarding: Recruitment is streamlined with an ATS, digital contracts, and paperless onboarding for new hires.
  • HR Compliance Management: Model policies, contracts, and digital documentation ensure Kerrigans stays compliant with employment law.
  • Mobile Self-Service: Staff access rotas, request leave, and check HR policies from their phones.
  • Data-Driven Workforce Insights
    Managers gain real-time visibility of labour costs, absences, and staff performance.

Our Services

Kerrigans Butchers benefited from many of our platform features and services, including:

Workforce Management

Workforce Management Tools

A full suite of tools such as time and attendance management, shift scheduling software, and staff performance information.
support

Day-to-day Support

Reassurance with expert advice on employment law and workforce processes through our in-platform HR support tickets.
relations

Mobile App

Our mobile app gives the business an intuitive way for their employees to access everything they need, including a way to clock-in to shifts.
payroll

Preliminary Payroll and Cost Control

Consolidating time-related activities through one platform meant a seamless integration with payroll for precise workforce calculations.
documentation

HR Compliant Templates

Access to an extensive library of policies, documents and letters to keep the business in alignment with the latest compliance standards.

“app is more than just a platform. From helping with recruitment to providing up-to-date policies, it's like having your very own in-house HR Manager. ”

Barry Kerrigan
Managing Director, Kerrigans Butchers

The Real Value

The outcomes of using an all-in-one HR and Workforce Management platform. A service that pays for itself, many times over: 
  • realtime Real-time Data With app integrated, Kerrigans Butchers can access real-time business insights, up-to-the-minute shift schedules, and a streamlined payroll export that saves them substantial time.
  • compliance Compliance & Cost-Saving Confidence Navigating compliance is eased with app. The partnership offers expert support for nuanced staffing decisions and dilemmas, fortifying decisions with accurate data.

    Beyond operational cost-saving advantages, app diligently prevents employment disputes and investigations, so businesses can circumvent considerable financial setbacks.
  • freedom Unleashing Growth Ambitions By optimising workforce management, boosting employee engagement and productivity, and ensuring seamless compliance and risk management, we're reshaping businesses like Kerrigans. Managers can finally unlock their full potential, embracing growth and innovation every step of the way.

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