Research to improve the performance of the primary supply chain

Abstract

An overview of the primary forest products supply chain has been described that has served as the foundation of ongoing and future supply chain planning research at Oregon State University. This overview describes 5 component system that includes supply management, a demand management, a planning and scheduling system, execution and reporting and knowledge collection components. Following the completion of this overview, new components are being developed that include a annual harvest scheduling component that assigns logging crews to units and schedules them through the year. The second component used Kriging estimates of volume to improve the order fulfillment process. We believe that additional components can be developed to improve the performance of the primary forest products supply chain.