Forestry Applications

ISBN-13: 9781138576391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 144 str.

Gregory Paradis

Opis

This book features applications of operational research to a wide range of forest management and forest products industry contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Centralized supply chain planning model for multiple forest companies  2. Benefits of inter-firm relationships: application to the case of a five sawmills and one paper mill supply chain  3. Advances in profit-driven order promising for make-to-stock environments – a case study with a Canadian softwood lumber manufacturer  4. Analysis of uncontrollable supply effects on a co-production demand-driven wood remanufacturing mill with alternative processes  5. Development of a threat index to manage timber production on flammable forest landscapes subject to spatial harvest constraints  6. A model approach to include wood properties in log sorting and transportation planning

O autorze

Gregory Paradis is a forest engineer working on linking forest ecosystem management and forest products supply chain planning. He is currently affiliated with the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia, Canada.