5.- Enhance economic and environmental performance of forest supply chains

Система e-drewno була створена, щоб клієнти могли брати участь в аукціонах з продажу деревини в лісництвах без необхідності фізичної присутності.

Наразі 20% усієї деревини продається державними лісовими господарствами на торгах на веб-сайті e-drewno.pl.

Участь в аукціонах можлива після реєстрації та отримання індивідуального доступу до системи. Під час реєстрації кожен користувач вказує назву лісництва. З практичних міркувань рекомендується, щоб це було лісництво, яке знаходиться найближче до місця проживання/ ведення бізнесу. Уся інформація, що обмінюється між сервером і комп’ютером користувача, зашифрована. Подані пропозиції реєструються та ранжуються. Позиція у рейтингу залежить від запропонованої ціни, а у випадку однакових цін – від порядку, у якому вони були подані.

Під час аукціону кожен клієнт може подати необмежену кількість пропозицій, а також змінити раніше подані версії. У виграшних пропозиціях можна змінювати лише вагу деревини, мінімальну вагу деревини і ціну (у напрямку збільшення).

З метою захисту корпоративних даних учасники аукціону не мають доступу до даних інших підприємств-учасників торгів.

Система проста у використанні та адмініструванні, містить калькулятор цін і надає доступ до звітів. 

L'objectif du projet ChainWood est de concevoir et de développer une infrastructure de logiciel sécurisée, basée sur les technologies blockchain et Internet des Objets (IdO), ajustée à l'ensemble des chaînes d'approvisionnement en bois, permettant aux différents acteurs de valoriser leurs données et de gérer le produit de manière plus efficace en termes de coût, de traçabilité et de durabilité.

Les solutions suivantes sont proposées pour répondre aux problèmes détectés: assurance des transactions, informations de confiance en temps réel, semi-automatisation de l'opération, données de qualité accessibles, amélioration de la concurrence.

Avantages :

• Pour les producteurs :

           Des informations en temps réel sur le volume et le statut du produit.

• Pour l'industrie de transformation :

           Accès à une énorme source de données sur les matières premières qui leur permettra d'optimiser leurs processus d'approvisionnement et de rationaliser la gestion de leurs opérations.

•  Pour les sociétés d'exploitation :

            Transparence et assurance dans les transactions, en tirant le meilleur parti de la technologie d'aujourd'hui.

• Pour les autorités de contrôle :

           Réduction des coûts dans les processus d'audit et de contrôle, ainsi qu'une connaissance plus précise des chaînes d'approvisionnement.

• Pour les entreprises de logistique :

           Des informations qui leur permettront d'optimiser leur flotte et de fournir des services plus efficacement.

• Pour les administrations publiques :

           Un accès plus facile aux données sur le bois, permettant une gestion plus agile et efficace des processus qu'elles supervisent.

Biomass Logistic and Trade Centres (BLTCs) are local or regional centres with optimised logistics and trading organization, where different woody bioenergy products (or heat) are marketed at standardised quality focusing on the domestic market uptake. It’s an innovative business model competitively operating as an intermediator to organise local woody bioenergy value chains between local biomass suppliers and customers of different scale from private households up to deliveries to heat and power plants. BioRES supported setting-up such BLTCs in Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia.

Starting point are web-based marketing and sales platform with limited physical infrastructure. This can be successively extended into a BLTC with its own production, storage and logistics facilities when the local market reaches critical volumes allowing for the amortization of investments. In Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Finland BLTCs of different shape with own production, storage and logistic facilities are competitively operating. BioRES aims to setting up at least 6 – 8 new BLTCs in distributed over at least 2 of the 3 countries in Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria during the project.

A digital coaching, assistance and feedback system is designed to improve the productivity and job satisfaction of forest machine operators with reduced mental stress and to make the training of junior staff more attractive and efficient. The overall objective is to make recommendations for the future development and implementation of an operator interface with optimal timing of feedback interpretation for decision support. The prototype of the digital coach will be integrated in forestry machines in Germany and Scandinavia and will also be used as a test environment in the simulators at FBZ. In the evaluation of the use cases the improvement of the forest-wood logistics chain will be critically assessed. In addition, the evaluation will assess how well the project meets the market requirements. The project consortium's approach to training is to ensure that the knowledge acquired can be optimally applied by the users.

A hackathon is a unique opportunity to get together with different people and work on exciting ideas together. Supported by mentors and experts, a prototype, code, concept or a business model for an innovative solution is developed within a very short time (e.g.: 24h) in a team. It is not uncommon for hackathon teams to stay on site overnight, working through the night and only sleeping a few hours here and there. This is part of the concept and so there are often rest rooms with sleeping facilities at the hackathon. At the end of the event, each team gets the chance to pitch their idea to a jury, which then selects the winning team.

The Rilegno network is a showcase of excellence in post-consumer wood waste and recycling logistics, maximizing the benefits of an integrated circular value chain and market approach for the entire wood and furniture sector. Highlights of innovative features:

• The collection network covers the entire territory with 419 private collection platforms serving the industrial and commercial sector.
• More than 4,500 municipalities representing over 42 million inhabitants have signed agreements for urban collection.
• 15 major panel producers recycle large volumes to supply board products to furniture and construction industries, amounting for about 3.2 million tons of released items.
• 63% of the material sent for recycling into boards comes mainly from wooden packaging such as pallets, crates for fruit and vegetables, boxes, cable reels, cork stoppers.
• In addition, 60 million items equal to 839,000 tons of regenerated pallets are returned to the market, which thus re-enter the logistics circuit instead of becoming waste.
• The gained CO2 savings amount to around 1 million tons per year. The economic impact is around 1.4 million euros and 6,000 jobs.

Les outils informatiques se développent de plus en plus dans les entreprises de la filière Forêt-Bois. Cette informatisation s’accompagne d’un besoin accru de données numériques. Dans ce contexte, eMOBOIS propose un cadre pour faciliter la mise en relation des systèmes informatiques. L’élément fondateur du projet est la standardisation des données et des échanges de données. L’objectif d’eMOBOIS est donc de faciliter les échanges d’information entre deux entreprises impliquées dans le processus d’approvisionnement des bois. L’utilisation au moment de l’échange d’un langage commun est proposée pour éviter de multiplier le développement d’interfaces informatiques. eMOBOIS se concentre sur la transaction de données d’une entreprise vers une autre. Il n’y a pas d’ingérence dans les choix informatiques des entreprises ni dans le traitement des données par les entreprises. La démarche est compatible avec la diversité des solutions informatiques rencontrée. Les avantages principaux sont un gain de temps considérable, une meilleure sécurité et fiabilité des échanges, une communication plus facile entre les acteurs, ainsi qu'une mise à jour en temps réel des stocks.

Secure Chain's objective was to promote a Sustainable Supply Chain Management practice that meets high environmental, quality and financial viability standards, tailored for local biomass suppliers, energy producers and the financial sector. In the process, the entire bioenergy chain was considered, and sustainability and financing were an integral part of the set-up. The specific objectives comprised, a) integration and optimization of local supply chains, b) high efficiency and low impact gain, c) supply sustainability, d) leveraging investments in bioenergy, and, e) implementation of future-proof bioenergy chains. SecureChain relied heavily on tested digital practices deminstrating organisational setups for information flows, biomass mobilisation and logistics, especially for a) the optimization of collaborative networks and joint implementation plans of local supply chains, and b) the application of risk assessment tools for the analysis of supply chains’ market opportunities, financing schemes and investor requirements.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 646457 for the period from 01.04.2015 to 31.07.2018.

Vlada Republike Hrvatske je u suradnji s Ministarstvom poljoprivrede razvila bazu podataka prerade drva i proizvodnje namještaja u Hrvatskoj. Razvoj baze podataka je prvo prioritetno područje Strategije razvoja Prerade drva i proizvodnje namještaja Republike Hrvatske 2017. - 2020. Svrha baze je povezati proizvođače cjelokupnog lanca vrijednosti kao i druge ključne dionike: gospodarski i javni sektor, znanstvenu zajednicu, krajnje potrošače kao i širu javnost.  

Republic of Croatia Government  in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture, developed online database of wood processing and furniture production in Croatia. Development of online database was first priority area of programming period 2017-2020 for Development Strategy of Wood Processing and Furniture Production Industry in the Republic of Croatia. Purpose of the database is to connect producers along the value chain as well as other key interdependent actors: economic and public sector, scientific community, end consumers as well as the general public.