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In order to foster growth and competitive advantage of the sawmill industry, creative and effective ways to meet increasing customer demands are needed. The wood supply chains should link forest resources, logistics and tree bucking according to the sawmill orders better than it is today. The three-year transnational VARMA project has aimed to bring new knowledge on the issue, approaching the wood supply chain optimization from four different angles in Finland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.


The transnational VARMA research project investigated technical and business considerations of a wood allocation centre (WAC), defined as: A virtual or real structure (facility or organization) that boosts efficiency of wood raw material supply by centralizing resources, operations and services for actors in the wood supply chain (network). An important aspect of the WAC concept is that centralized wood allocation can direct the available wood to the most suitable customers, with the highest possible value added.


The needs of the national industry determined the objectives of each WAC-concept to be developed, resulting in four different, but related outputs described briefly in this report. Each concept contributed to the common challenge by bringing new knowledge for different parts of the wood supply chain; 1) wood buying action (assisting decision making during wood buying by developing new tools for raw material valuation), 2) wood supply (model for matching daily round wood deliveries with daily orders), 3) processing (raw material efficiency by new tools for stem’s optimal bucking) and 4) business models by pooling resources, operations and services. Hence, the project didn’t aim to solve all aspects in order to improve wood supply chain efficiency, but it took steps towards solving the key challenges in each country, building foundations for further research.

hanke luotu 12.04.2018

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