Throughout the year, the Dutch Cooperative fruit and vegetable auction market “Veiling Zaltbommel” handles the supply of its 300 member-growers. The products are sold through the Dutch auction clock system and through mediation. Every year 16.000 wooden and plastic pallet boxes filled with hard fruit are supplied to the auction market and stored in 70 ULO (Ultra Low Oxygen) cold stores. Aucxis was engaged to automate the manual registrations of the in- and outgoing movements and relocations of the pallet boxes at the market's cooling complex, so a correct view, in real time, of the number of pallet boxes in the cold stores could be obtained. For the concept elaboration, the following aspects were to be taken into account: > Every pallet box had to be provided with a unique pallet bo

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