Marrie Schipper

DLV Advies is an agricultural consultancy, active in real estate, construction, manure, minerals, and numerous projects for the agricultural sector. With around 150 employees spread across four locations and five entities, getting a grip on HR administration isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. Marrie Schipper has been Team Manager Staff at DLV for 35 years. She started as a pig farming advisor, and now handles IT, financial administration, and HR.

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Manual leave management cost days of work every year

Before HoorayHR, HR documents lived across the CRM/ERP system, separate notes, and Nmbrs, and everything ran through email. Leave management caused the most friction. The team calculated, carried over, and expired leave entirely by hand, costing them several days every year. Permissions and roles weren’t easy to configure either, so GDPR compliance stayed a challenge. Double data entry led to structural errors.

Why did DLV Advies choose HoorayHR?

DLV built a shortlist with one key requirement: a solid integration with Nmbrs, the payroll system used by their external payroll administrator. Another HR system offered its own module, but strong support reviews and Dutch-language contact tipped the scale toward HoorayHR. Implementation exceeded expectations. The system was fully operational within a few days. Only teaching employees and team managers how to run progress conversations took a bit more time.

“Leave was our biggest problem. HoorayHR handles it fully automatically, with no double entry and no errors.”

One system for five entities

Today, DLV Advies uses HoorayHR for expenses, travel expense claims, leave, sick leave registration, contracts, documents, and time tracking, including for freelancers. DLV manages all five entities from one system, so reports no longer need manual merging. Leave is the biggest win: calculation, carryover, and expiration run fully automatically, with no double entry and no calculation errors. Marrie estimates the total time saved at around one full workday per month, including at their external payroll administrator. Legislation, like leave rules, stays up to date automatically, so DLV doesn’t need to monitor it themselves.