Metsäliitto is the tenth largest forest industry group in the world. Its five business areas include wood supply, wood products, pulp, paper and board and tissue and cooking paper. Metsäliittos yearly sales exceeds 9.3 billion euro. With 25,000 employees, the Metsäliitto Group operates in 30 countries and is a cooperative organisation for Finnish forest owners with more than 131,000 members.
A warehousing approach for the forest
In order to optimize the use of the raw material and cut administration costs, Metsäliitto is using a warehouse approach to optimise the logistics in procurement. Warehouse systems are used to obtain the best goods and the best prices while market changes which requires instant access to inventory and supplier. The forest is regarded as the primary storage which Metsäliitto’s system supervises from tender seedlings to mature trees ready for logging. Next storage space is the heap of timber and pulpwood which the harvesters and forwarders have produced. When loaded on a truck the analogy with a storage rack is obvious and when unloaded the wood is moved into the plants total storage of raw material.
Computers in all vehicles
In order to make the necessary reporting of wood movements between storage places, rugged mobile computers are required in about 1 300 harvesters, forwarders and trucks. This is an investment which paves the way to shorter lead-times, improves cash to-cash cycles, and reduces administration work. Above all, tremendous improvements in utilization of the raw material are achieved. The system facilitates use of an optimal selection of growing trees for specific customer requirements. JLT:s sales partner In Time supplies the necessary PC hardware. |
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Just benefi ts – no drawbacks!and less discharge
The forest owner’s benefits from inventory control of their trees, the possibility to get better paid for quality and lower transportation costs. The plants can tie less capital in stores, lower their costs for administration, improve utilization of raw material and shorten lead-times for orders. The transport companies gets accurate information of where and how much to load and where to unload.
PC:s in trucks also assists in beating CO2 as the transporters will drive less miles unloaded and more miles fully loaded. Less misdriving is another contribution to less discharge. |
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Model: JLT12052
CPU: Intel Celeron M 1.5GHz
1024MB RAM, 60GB HD, Touch Screen |
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