Case Study: Plantion achieves reliable, high‑volume flower‑auction management with a small IT team using LANSA

Plantion Manages Mega Operation With Small It Team

Plantion, a grower-owned flower auction and horticulture trade center in Ede, Netherlands, runs a large, time-critical operation—daily auctions that process about €250,000 of produce in a 2.5-hour window and up to 4,000 sales transactions per hour. After a 2008 merger and a major new facility opening in 2010, Plantion needed highly reliable, real-time processing and tight cost control to serve hundreds of buyers and growers with a very small IT team.

Plantion solved this with an in-house LANSA-based LVS system integrated with the Aucxis auction platform and third-party tools (Avalanche), using Visual LANSA clients on Windows, PDAs and touchscreens and DB2/IBM i back-end reliability. The integrated, single-workbench approach delivers real-time EDI, automated invoicing and bank debits, seamless negotiated-trade support and easy customization—enabling high availability, low total cost of ownership and efficient operation managed by a three-person IT team.

Plantion

Peter Bakker

Director Operations