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Collaborative project: Optimizing the forest-factory timber supply chain by analyzing, assessing and refining methods of round timber measurement and supply chain operations in timber sales
Project
Project code: 22008518
Contract period: 01.06.2019
- 31.05.2022
Budget: 255,016 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: digitalization, forestry, timber quality, renewable ressources
German forestry and timber operations are increasingly under pressure to establish more efficient operations and structures in the timber supply chain and in timber purchasing. Timber quantities continue to be recounted at different interfaces to control supply chain operations, to bill services and quantities sold, and to establish the chain of custody. Different methods of round timber measurement with different units, e.g. dimension, volume and weight, are used. The emergence of new measurement methods and the capacity to render captured data digitally usable for every stakeholder to optimize the supply chain harbors potentials for boosting efficiency in data acquisition, communication and processing. The frequently compartmentalized structures and complexity of the forestry and timber cluster’s business relationships are hindering advanced technologies and efficient operations from penetrating the market, though. This project is pursuing the overall objective of filling existing gaps in knowledge about sales and purchasing operations as well as the methods of round timber measurement embedded in them. Individual objectives being pursued include: • Specification and analysis of the round timber dimensions and methods of measurement used at the central interfaces of advanced supply chains and a comparative description of the requisite accuracy requirements • Algorithms for automated quality measurement • Analysis of the impact of parameters affecting volume and quality on the unit of volume • Analysis of timber supply, purchase and sales processes and formulation of recommendations for optimizing the supply chain
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Renewable Resources
- Computer science
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Associated projects: Woodsupplychain
- Collaborative project: Optimizing the forest-factory timber supply chain by analyzing, assessing and refining methods of round timber measurement and supply chain operations in timber sales, subproject 2: Volume and quality-influencing factors in wood pole measurement
- Collaborative project: Optimization of the wood supply chain through analysis, evaluation and further development of timber measurement and logistics processes in the round wood trade
- Collaborative project: Optimizing the forest-factory timber supply chain by analyzing, assessing and refining methods of round timber measurement and supply chain operations in timber sales
- Collaborative project: Optimizing the forest-factory timber supply chain by analyzing, assessing and refining methods of round timber measurement and supply chain operations in timber sales
