User:Karin Westlund (UU)/sandbox

The Swedish wood supply chain extends from standing forest to industry's mill yard. In between there are processing steps, as harvesting or chipping, and logistic functions such as forwarding, truck- train and boat transports. The interaction between each processing or logistic node in the wood supply chain is crucial to get the right wood raw material to the intended customer or industry in time. Planning tools for short term periods, one week or day, and long term periods, five to ten years, have been developed over time. Planning the wood supply chain include above mentioned classical issue, right product in time, and have to take in account a lot of parameters varying over time such as rain, thawing period, international demand etc. A lot of support decision models have been developed using e.g operations research methods, simulation based metods and other techniques to be used in management and plannnig of the Swedish wood supply chain.