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Up-stream wood procurement - from logging operations, transportation to delivery while dealing with transversal supply chain management – is a complex process which relies on the intervention of a vast and diverse network of forest companies (wood suppliers, services providers…). The process and the decisions behind its precise organization are highly dependent on the availability of:

• Geographic information
• Adequate equipment and machineries
• Transportation infrastructure
• Professional know-how guiding socio-economic practices and performances
• Decision support systems
• Inter-enterprise protocols for information flow, communication and commercial practices

In such a context, research providers’ tools and methodologies are adapted to professional practices to accompany their development and steer the adoption of relevant innovations in the process. Depending on the readiness of bio-economy stakeholders at different levels (content-, geography-, economically-wise or other), research infrastructure and resources are bound to be heterogeneous at European level. The point of the following criteria and multiple options for each of them is to capture this diversity during the ERIFORE inquiry