FCBA – Wood supply chain, logistics, transportation

FCBA has been involved with topic by developing solutions adapted to the needs of R&D projects or forest stakeholders, which ca be categorized into different classes, depending on the needs :

Geographic information for wood supply chain:

• Coupling National Forest Inventory (NFI) and Topography data
  • Tool with restricted access and available for research use only
• Research results in the field
  • Availability fragmented institution-wise
  • Pooled on a platform for research community
  • Pooled and open
• National Geographic information system
  • Restricted (User access or Geographic scope)
  • All geo-layers/DataBases pooled and available for open access and exploitation

Adequate equipment and machineries:

• Monitoring of logging equipments
  • Description of fleet available
  • Monitored and instrumented
• Monitoring of transportation equipments
  • Description of fleet available
  • Monitored and instrumented

Transportation infrastructure:

• Forest roads infrastructure
• Scattered information
• Digital inventory including qualification
• Monitored and instrumented at restricted level/scale
• Monitored and instrumented on national level
• Product transportation infrastructure (road, rail, sailing routes…)
  • Scattered information
  • Digital inventory including qualification
  • Monitored and instrumented at restricted level/scale
  • Monitored and instrumented on national level

Socio-economic practices and performances

• Context-wise performances (cost functions and socio-environmental indicators)
  • Scattered operation-specific information
  • Models available by operation types
  • Models available and pooled on platform for research community
  • Pooled and available for open access and exploitation
• Monitoring infrastructure for practices and performances
  • Scattered project-dependent operations
  • Regular monitoring at restricted level/scale
  • Regular instrumented monitoring

Decision support systems

• Virtual processing environment
  • Isolated project-dependent operations
  • Simulation tool available under restricted access
  • Simulation tool-set available and pooled on platform for research community
  • Simulation tool-set available for open access and exploitation

Inter-enterprise protocols

• Communication standard for electronic data exchange between forest-based companies
  • Known but not implemented
  • Restricted adoption in the country
  • Wide adoption in practice

• Inter-operable infrastructure for communication with stakeholders’ information systems (ERP)
• Restricted scope
• Operational infrastructure available
• Operational infrastructure actually collecting data from practitioners’s information systems