Improving efficiencies through the wood supply chain

Friday 31 May 2013

 
Better management of wood flows within the wood supply chain has been a clear priority for the majority of forest products companies over the last couple of years. The pressure’s been on to squeeze as much out of each segment – and across the entire wood supply chain – from harvesting and transport operations through to market. With a big jump in both the quality and type of data available that’s now being made available, significant inroads have been made in the last 12 months into capturing some of these inefficiencies.

For the first time in the Pacific North West, a one-day conference, ForestTECH 2013 – Improving Wood Transport & Logistics, has been set up for forest managers, technical foresters, forestry consultants, forest logistics and supply chain managers, harvest planners and transport operators. It’s based on the very successful series run for Australasian forestry companies by the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) late last year.

Australasia’s leading provider of forest products technology programs, FIEA will be linking up with the well-known US forestry association, the Western Forestry and Conservation Association (WFCA). This inaugural event has been set up specifically for forestry, wood products and transport companies in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alberta and B.C.

The innovative program will provide a long overdue insight into some very clever technologies being used by forest products companies in the US – and internationally - to improve local company’s planning, logistics and operations within the wood supply chain.

ForestTECH 2013 runs in Portland, OR, USA on Wednesday 9 October 2013. Full details can be found on www.westernforestry.org

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