RFID tracking and indoor mapping software for the Netherlands

The Port of Rotterdam is Europe’s largest port, and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is one of the continent’s major cargo airports. With inland waterways and rail links into Germany and Belgium, they make the Netherlands a natural place to receive goods for the whole European market — and the warehouses around them handle containers, pallets and air freight that are often bound for several countries.

For those operations, minutes and lanes matter: which dock door a trailer is at, which pallets are staged for which outbound load, what is still in the yard before cut-off. Spatial Map draws dock doors, staging lanes, yard slots, the gate and the weighbridge on your site plan and binds RFID reads, yard data and WMS status to them.

Many international manufacturers and retailers run their European distribution centre in the Netherlands, and logistics regions such as Venlo, Tilburg and the wider Brabant–Limburg corridor are among the best-known locations for them. These are large, often multi-client buildings that serve customers across the EU and add services on top of storage: labelling, kitting, returns.

Spatial Map shows such a distribution centre as one live map: rack locations coloured by stock or status from your WMS, RFID cartons and pallets followed door to door, forklifts as live markers, packing and staging areas in context. The Crestline Fulfillment demo has 20 racks with 2,204 rack locations, pick-to-light, packing and a trailer yard. For multi-client sites, read-only share links let each client see only the floors and layers you choose, with an expiry date and no account needed.

Cross-docking is where Dutch logistics is most time-critical: pallets come in, are sorted and leave again within hours, often for another country. A pallet in the wrong lane or a trailer forgotten in the yard means a missed departure.

In the Eastport Cross-Dock demo, 50 dock doors, 44 yard slots and 1,180 RFID pallets are live on one map, with a pallet staged in the wrong lane and short loads before cut-off visible in place, and dock, gate and yard reports exported for the shift. Your own site works the same way: your RFID middleware or yard management system posts rows to a table, or Spatial Map polls its REST endpoint.

The Netherlands is one of the world’s largest exporters of agricultural products, and its horticulture sector — the greenhouses of the Westland, the flower auction at Aalsmeer — ships flowers, plants, vegetables and fruit across Europe and beyond, much of it chilled. Fresh produce, dairy and flowers pass through cold rooms, ripening rooms and temperature-controlled cross-docks on the way.

Spatial Map colours each cold room and dock by the live reading from your sensors, shows doors open or closed and pallets on hold, and replays recent changes with the History player. The Polar Pharma demo shows the same pattern for a pharma cold store with temperature zones, doors and 1,140 rack locations — relevant too for the pharmaceutical distribution centres that serve Europe from the Netherlands.

The interface is not yet available in Dutch. Dutch teams typically use it in English — convenient for the international workforce common in Dutch logistics — and it is also available in German, French and Spanish, plus Arabic and Chinese. Dock names, rack codes and column names stay exactly as you write them. There is a Dutch version of this page.

Under the GDPR (AVG), location data that can be linked to employees is personal data, and staff tracking can also involve your works council (ondernemingsraad); most logistics projects therefore tag pallets, cartons, trailers and equipment rather than people. A data processing agreement is available and the security page describes how data is protected. Spatial Map is sold online at the same USD price worldwide, and our team works with customers remotely, by video call and through the contact form.