Flexible Wood Supply Chain

Collaborative Project

FP7 – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology

The EU-funded Collaborative Project FlexWood – Flexible Wood Supply Chain, is a project that officially began November 1^st, 2009 and will continue for three years. The Consortium consists of 14 partners representing 9 countries and is comprised of leading SMEs, universities and research centres and associations, who contribute complementary experience and expertise.

The overall objective is to build a novel logistic system, ‘FlexWood’, which provides value recovery along the wood supply chain. This system will integrate

• advanced quality and quantity information on wood resources measured in the forest with novel technology

• optimisation models for tactical and operational planning (bucking, harvesting, allocation of wood)

• optimisation models and enhanced processes for novel and more flexible concepts for mill production and

• improved information transfer between all stages of the wood supply chain to create new knowledge for decision making.

Within the FlexWood concept, existing solutions for value recovery opportunities in these areas will be tested and/or adapted or developed, which will be followed by an interlinking of the single solutions that allows the modelling of the entire information flow with benefits and efficiency gains in both time, quality and cost.

This project is funded within the

7th framework programme of the European Commission
THEME 2 Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Grant agreement no.: 245136

and lasts from 1. November 2009 until 31. October 2012.