Ontario Livestock Exchange Inc.

Live Auction Sales System

Designed and implemented a Live Auction Sales System and Integrated Environment (LASSIE) for OLEX. The system tracked all livestock as it entered the sale barns, move through the auction rings and ultimately back out of the sale barns. Besides tracking the livestock, the system calculated all commissions, insurances, special deductions and taxes for all buyer and seller transactions. It printed buyer invoices,seller cheques, trucker cheques and posted all pertinent accounting information to an A/R file for import to the online accounting system. Each live auction sale involved more then 30 users and was closed off and reconciled as a lengthy and complex set of entries in balanced cheque and invoice registers, before the next auction sale was started.As part of this project and for several years following, Generated Solutions upgraded the onsite computing facility and fulfilled the role of IT department for OLEX.

Internet-Based Electronic Auction System

Since 1978, OLEX had operated an electronic auction system. That system ran on Dec VAX hardware with the VMS operating system and used X.25 (Datapac) communications. Generated Solutions designed and developed a multi-tier application to replace this system, using TCP/IP (public Internet) communications. The new Internet-based electronic auction system was comprised of a multi-threaded server application that utilized a SQL database to manage all auction related data and a Java applet auction client that used a proprietary socket-based communication protocol that we developed, to stay synchronized with the servers auctioning sequence.