Expansion of inward clearance

The loading area consists of various hardware and software-components. Vehicles are identified in the loading area by means of magnetic cards, e.g. at the entrance, at islands, at weighing stations and at the exit. The software components control this hardware and respond to corresponding events, thereby guiding the vehicles through the loading area (e.g. by messages on display panels). The software components communicate with one another via TCP connections. Order data is stored in an SQL-Server database. In addition, there are interfaces to an SAP system implemented with RFC (remote function call). These interfaces receive master data changes from the SAP system or transfer finished order data to SAP.