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Over 150 cattle producers and industry figures attending the February Teys Producer Day, in Clermont, were amongst the first to receive the news of Teys Cattle Connect ® – the latest innovation from Teys Australia.
Teys Cattle Connect ® was launched for pre-registration and sign-up after a year of collaboration in the development from Teys’ Livestock and IT teams, with the platform designed to reduce paperwork to provide users with a seamless digital experience.
The platform includes a paperless documentation sharing platform covering contracts, eNVDs, MSA declarations, NFAS declarations and Grasslands declarations, booking schedules. It will be complementary with other digital resources, like MyMLA and Meat Standards Australia’s MyMSA facility.
Ethan Mooney, Teys Livestock Project Manager said “Teys Cattle Connect offers producers a range of features, including showing future bookings at different Teys processing sites; Teys Livestock contracts that can be electronically generated and digitally signed by the vendor; an electronic National Vendor Declaration (eNVD) function; as well as other declarations that may be required as part of Teys specialised branded programs.”
“Producers using Teys Cattle Connect no longer need to prepare paper-based documentation, unless they choose. Importantly, Teys will always accept paper-based declarations – leaving the option always in the hands of the producer,” he said.
“It’s a critical step for Teys. While there are other processors with electronic platforms used in-house to do bookings – this will be the first of its kind on this scale, covering the producer-processor relationship,” Mr Mooney said.
“It will allow producers to access the platform and be in direct contact with the Teys buying team to make decisions about what they might do, at a farm level.”
“The new platform will handle both direct-consigned slaughter cattle and feeder cattle bookings.
Courtney Lakin, from Teys Livestock Operations said that the feedback and suggestions from producers using Cattle Connect will be valuable to future functionality development.
“The continuing development of Teys Cattle Connect will ensure Teys’ Livestock team continues to meet the needs of our producer partners,” Ms Lakin said.
“Teys Cattle Connect will operate across all of Teys’ beef processing facilities, covering Biloela, Lakes Creek and Beenleigh in Queensland, Wagga Wagga NSW and Naracoorte in South Australia.”
