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SOFIA: Seamless Operation of Forest Industry Applications

SOFIA aims to build an ICT solution for optimizing logistics on contractor sites in the forestry sector of Finland. The objective is to decrease expenses and increase competitiveness, while enabling efficient operations and high customer service levels for contractors. SOFIA offers cost reduction, openness, and readiness for new business scenarios in the forest industry.

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SOFIA: Seamless Operation of Forest Industry Applications

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  1. SOFIA: Seamless Operation of Forest Industry Applications University of Jyväskylä Sergiy Nikitin & Minna Lappalainen senikiti@jyu.fi, +358445820503 minna.k.lappalainen@jyu.fi

  2. SOFIA Objective: • To build an ICT solution for logistics optimization on the contractor site (for harvesting and transportation SME’s) • The practical outcome - a SOFIA software platform for B2B mediation tailored to the forestry sector of Finland Strategic fit to research strategy: • Optimized logistics will: • Decrease expenses of the entire raw wood supply chain by approx. 50 mil. € annually, hence increase competitiveness of the whole value chain • Free the capacity for the strategic goal of national wood production growth up to 25% • SOFIA - a basis for easy adoption of new business models: • No changes in the existing ICT solutions of forest industry companies • Enables efficient operations and high customer service level for contractors having multiple customers • A big step towards flexible forestry service market

  3. SOFIA Main actions: • Platform implementation in close cooperation with end users Business opportunities and challenges: • A set of competing SME’s can be established for SOFIA provision, support & further development • Challenges: • Historically closed environment • No support from other Information System providers may raise connectivity difficulties • Monopoly of IS provider(s) may influence SOFIA adoption

  4. Impact and expected benefits Value creation potential: • SOFIA offers: cost reduction, openness and readiness for new business scenarios Renewal of forest industry: • Prepares a basis for ICT innovations in forestry chain Sustainability: • Use of standards and configurable platform architecture New competence and/or knowledge: • Expertise in forestry domain combined with the bleeding edge ICT technologies Source:

  5. Networking Research partners: • Koneyrittäjät ry, Metsäalan kuljetusyrittäjät ry, Metsäteho, Metla, Joensuun yliopisto, VTT, Metsäkeskus Tapio, Metsäteollisuus ry, Energiateollisuus ry International networking: • Skogforsk, Sweden; University of Freiburg, Germany Links to other EU/ Forestcluster Ltd programmes: • “Indisputable Key” EU FP6 project • More to be added…

  6. Appendix A – State of the art in logistics planning

  7. Appendix B – SOFIA platform for a contractor SME

  8. Appendix C – Concept of Virtual Machine From the consumer point of view, logging and transportation services look the same, however, the real equipment of the contractor is hidden. A wood buyer makes orders seamlessly, but the assembly chosen for the execution is virtual. The service provider then plans the operations and assigns tasks to real units

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