Objectives
The overall objective was a novel logistic system, ‘FlexWood’, to provide value recovery along the wood supply chain. The online platform integrated:
- advanced quality and quantity information on wood resources measured in the forest with novel technology
- optimisation models for tactical and operational planning (bucking, harvesting, allocation of wood)
- optimisation models and enhanced processes for novel and more flexible concepts for mill production and
- improved information transfer between all stages of the wood supply chain to create new knowledge for decision making.
Within the FlexWood concept, existing solutions for value recovery opportunities in these areas were tested and/or adapted or developed, which was followed by an interlinking of the single solutions that allows the modelling of the entire information flow with benefits and efficiency gains in time, quality and cost.
FlexWood - towards a demand-driven wood supply chain