Supply chain management in mountainous forests (FFG)
Abstract
In a new established network, first steps for the development of a planned “sector vision” will be designed. This vision should contribute to sustainable and effective forest management, a long-term success of the production region Carinthia and the protection of regional jobs in the forest and wood industry. The feasibility of aspired cooperation in partnership of several single players in the fields forestry-logistics-saw mill under the implementation of developed but not marketable and networked IT/telematic concepts will be investigated and presented in a new study. The cooperation takes place with the objective of resource-effective forest utilization in mountain forests. Impacts on the sustainability for the new developed wood value-added chain will be evaluated in terms of the valuation levels efficiency, ecology and social compatibility. In present projects the implementation of steering tools for the timber supply chain have developed solutions for the needs in the forest in a sufficient way but a complete linking within the process chain forest-store-saw mill has not been documented so far. This project should develop a concept for a holistic solution. For the plausibility evidence the smallest possible practical implementation of the provided supply chain will be installed in the investigation region. Therefore a forest enterprise, three transportation companies and one sawmill will be prepared with suitable IT/telematics so that the processes can be compared under similar conditions in the pilot operation. In this project the forest harvesting process will be activated for the first time by the feedstock taker. All participants are connected by a shared data platform and so they will be informed about the defined steps. After they have been harvested, the long-term concerted timber contingents will be transported directly to the saw mill via new created delivery paths or via new established intermediate storages. The departure of the trucks will be controlled by a central platform. The reorganisation of the timber supply chain will not infringe accepted laws and rules of sustainable forest management (e.g. forest law, PEFC, sustainability criteria). Within this project all important key positions (forests, feller, skidder, freighter as small-scale enterprise and sawmills) will be integrated into the process flow. For this project the overcoming of acceptance problems of the different stakeholders and the solution of questions about resource efficient skidding with savings potentials in the field of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions play a prominent role. Further important results will be the evaluation of a total energy balance, the conservation of value of wood due to the avoidance of too long delivery times (fungus infection, beetle damage, etc) or communication deficits and the monetary effects for the players and the whole chain. The effects of the new created production chain on the sustainability will be analysed.
Publikationen
Analyzing road transport of roundwood with a commercial fleet manager
Autoren: Holzleitner F. Jahr: 2009
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Analyzing time and fuel consumption in road transport of round wood with an onboard fleet manager
Autoren: Holzleitner, F; Kanzian, C; Stampfer, K Jahr: 2011
Journal articles
Project staff
Karl Stampfer
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Karl Stampfer
karl.stampfer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91001, 91501, 91511
BOKU Project Leader
01.02.2007 - 31.12.2008
Franz Holzleitner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franz Holzleitner
franz.holzleitner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91522
Project Staff
01.02.2007 - 31.12.2008
BOKU partners
External partners
Hasslacher Drauland Holzindustrie
none
partner