Flexwood. Flexible wood supply chains
Abstract
The average annual supply of roundwood for industrial use in EU and associated countries amounts about 400 million cubic meters (solid) and in addition to this, there is a rapidly increasing market for wood fuel including “forest residues”, with a potential volume of another 200 million cubic metres. The present annual value of the roundwood is around 20 billion €, while the value of the end products at the wholesalers is well above 100 billion €. Several investigations indicate that significant additional values and improved process efficiencies can be achieved by improved measurements of the standing forests, improved harvesting decisions, improved selection, bucking and sorting at harvesting, improved transport logistics and improved information, communication and decision support systems along the wood supply chain. Every percent increase in average gain in the value chain amounts to magnitudes over one billion € and significant possibilities to improve the environment. The overall objective of Flexwood is to build a novel logistic system which provides value recovery along the wood supply chain. This system will integrate (i) advanced quality and quantity information on wood resources measured in the forest with novel technology (ii) optimisation models for tactical and operational planning (bucking, harvesting, allocation of wood) (iii) optimisation models and enhanced processes for novel and more flexible concepts for mill production and (iv) improved information transfer between all stages of the wood supply chain to create new knowledge for decision making.
keywords forestry-wood chain stakeholder expert assessment
Publikationen
FlexWood - Industrial requirements, gaps and improvement needs
Autoren: Bajric F., Vuillermoz M., Usenius A., Heikkilä A., Winking A., Wilhelmsson L., Jodlowski K., Fillbrandt T., Opferkuch M., Wolfslehner B., Lexer M.J., Huber P. Jahr: 2011
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Integrating small non-industrial private forest ownership (sNIPF) in novel logistic concepts
Autoren: Opferkuch M., Becker G., Huber P., Wolfslehner B. Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Manfred Josef Lexer
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Manfred Josef Lexer
mj.lexer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91316
BOKU Project Leader
01.11.2009 - 31.10.2012
Harald Vacik
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Harald Vacik
harald.vacik@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91312
Project Staff
01.11.2009 - 31.10.2012
Bernhard Wolfslehner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Bernhard Wolfslehner
bernhard.wolfslehner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73216
Project Staff
01.11.2009 - 31.10.2012
BOKU partners
External partners
Swedish Agricultural University
none
partner
University of Freiburg
none
partner
University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry
none
partner