Real-Time KPI Visibility and Faster Internal Reporting for a Global Agricultural Certification
Live KPI dashboards on the wall, faster information flow across facilities, and a clearer picture of company performance for everyone, not just management. How Control Union Certifications brought real-time reporting and engaging internal communication into its operations with Castit digital signage.
In agriculture, food, and certification services, decisions are only as good as the information behind them. A team that can see live performance data acts on it. A team that has to wait for a weekly report acts on yesterday's reality. The difference shows up in everything from operational efficiency to how engaged employees feel about the work they're doing.
Control Union Certifications came to Castit because their internal communication wasn't keeping up with the pace of their operation. Reports were arriving late, messages were getting lost between sites, and a lot of the data that mattered most was sitting in systems that not enough people were looking at. This is how a focused digital signage rollout changed that.
About the Client
Control Union Certifications B.V. is a global leader in independent certification services, headquartered in the Netherlands. The company provides audits and certifications across a wide range of industries, including agriculture, food, feed, forestry, textiles, biomass, and renewable energy. Their work helps producers, manufacturers, and supply chains demonstrate compliance with the sustainability, quality, and traceability standards that international markets increasingly demand.
With operations across many countries and a large, distributed team, Control Union plays a quiet but essential role in how global supply chains prove what they claim. That kind of work depends on consistency, accuracy, and timely information, both for clients in the field and for the staff coordinating the work behind the scenes.
The Challenges
Before approaching Castit, Control Union had identified a few specific issues holding their internal communication back:
- Fragmented communication. With multiple sites and a large staff, keeping communication consistent and timely across the organization was a real challenge. Information often reached different teams at different times, and sometimes not at all.
- Outdated reporting methods. The traditional ways of distributing KPIs and internal reports were slow and prone to delays. By the time a report reached the people who could act on it, the moment had often passed.
- Engagement gaps. Conventional communication tools weren't holding attention. Important updates and changes were getting lost in the noise of email and static notices, which made it hard to keep employees genuinely informed and engaged.
What Control Union needed was a way to surface the right information in the right places, in real time, in a format that people would actually look at.
The Castit Solution
Castit proposed a digital signage solution built around three priorities: centralized communication, live data, and content that people would want to engage with.
- Centralized communication hub. Castit installed digital players, in this case Chromecast devices, in strategic locations around Control Union's facility. The setup keeps the system simple and cost-effective, while making sure everyone, across every screen, sees the same up-to-date information at the same time. Real-time changes can be pushed instantly, with no manual workarounds.
- Real-time KPI display. Castit was integrated with Control Union's internal reporting systems, so live KPIs flow straight from the source to the screens. There's no manual export, no screenshot, no delay. Performance data is visible on the wall, refreshed automatically, and accessible to everyone walking past, not just the people who happen to be in the right meeting.
- Engaging content and features. The system supports a mix of content types, including videos, images, and text, which makes everyday internal communication feel less like a memo and more like something worth paying attention to. Important announcements, recognition, company news, and operational updates all live on the same screens as the KPIs, in formats that hold attention.
The Results and Impact
The impact of the rollout showed up quickly across both communication and operations.
Faster Information Flow
Employee Engagement
Real-Time KPI Visibility
More Screens Planned
- Information moved faster. The time it took to transmit information across Control Union's facilities went down. Updates that previously needed manual distribution now reach everyone in seconds, in a consistent format, with no version drift between sites.
- Employee engagement rose. Internal surveys reflected a clear improvement in how employees engaged with company communications. The dynamic, visual nature of digital signage drew attention in a way that emails and printed notices hadn't been able to, which translated into more awareness, more interaction, and a stronger sense of being kept in the loop.
- Real-time insights changed how decisions get made. With KPIs visible on the wall, information that used to live in dashboards behind a login became part of the everyday environment. Operational decisions got faster and better-informed, because the data behind them was right there, not buried in a report.
- Confidence in the system has translated into expansion. Impressed by the initial results, Control Union is planning to extend the digital signage rollout with additional screens, building on what's already working and bringing the same benefits to more parts of the operation.
Digital Signage Works for Certification, Agriculture, and Inspection Companies
Control Union's experience points to something true for a lot of certification, inspection, and compliance-focused organizations: the work depends on accurate information moving quickly between people, systems, and sites. That's exactly the problem digital signage is built to solve.
For companies in agriculture, food, certification, inspection, and global services, the value of digital signage is in turning internal data into something visible. Live KPI dashboards keep teams aligned on performance. Centralized content management keeps every site consistent without manual coordination. Engaging visual formats keep important updates from being ignored. And because the platform integrates with the reporting tools the business already uses, the data on the screen is the same data leadership is looking at, in real time.
If your organization is dealing with fragmented communication, slow reporting cycles, or limited engagement with internal updates, Castit is worth exploring. The platform integrates with the systems you already use, scales from a few screens to a full network across multiple sites, and is designed to be managed by operations teams rather than specialists. Visit Castit to learn more, or reach out to talk through what a setup would look like for your organization.