Log Inventory & Management System (LIMS)
LIMS — the comprehensive business management solution
LIMS is powerful business management software for the timber
and wood products industries. It combines the features of a log or timber
accounting system with support for silviculture, wood procurement, contractor payables, vendor
and contract management, log and wood products inventory, sales and consumption,
business planning,
querying, reporting, and
accounting.
Whether you are a timber investment management organization,
a forest or wood products company, or a lumber or pulp and paper mill operator, LIMS is the full-featured
system you’ve been waiting for.
As an integrated system, LIMS requires that data be entered once and only
once. The software uses a modern, centralized database design, so all your
business information is available in one place in continual real-time. Your
staff need only learn one, easy-to-use Windows-based system.
With 3LOG’s maintenance and support agreement, you’re assured of
continual updates to keep your software current with evolving
regulations and practices in the forest industry, and with the ever-changing
stream of developments in information technology. Fixed-price support and maintenance
agreements make for easy budgeting and assured costs.
Over 100 forest products companies have chosen to manage their businesses
using LIMS, and the system is installed at over 300 of their sites. These
include forestry companies, timber management organizations, and pulp and
paper companies.
Read on to learn why companies from single mills to large,
multi-divisional enterprises have selected LIMS as their primary business management
software.
Fig. 1: Screen shot of LIMS dashboard
Multi-level benefits
LIMS supports timberland or woodland operations, inventory yards, and
mills by
providing total administrative support from a
single, central database.
With LIMS, you keep all your data in one place and in one system. From
silvictulture, harvesting, procurement, and hauling, through to yard inventory
management and on to sales or consumption at a lumber or pulp mill, LIMS
manages your entire business.
There's no need to buy or build multiple systems to run your business, or
to track down the information you need from multiple sources. The whole
picture of your operations is in LIMS.
With LIMS your staff need only learn and operate one system. No more
duplication of data entry, and no more time spent interfacing between
different systems and tracking down discrepancies. Time previously spent working with cumbersome manual processes is freed up. Your team can spend their time
using their professional skills rather than administrating.
LIMS is equipped with a sophisticated Report Wizard
that allows you to capitalize on your decision to go with an integrated
system, where all your valuable information is stored in one database.
With real-time operational reports,
managers can quickly make decisions that control and reduce
costs. LIMS lets you create reports instantly, with different
templates for different users, divisions, and offices. You have the
flexibility to do reporting at any time on demand, or according to a schedule
you set up.
No need to
learn external reporting tools, or to call on specialized technical staff.
You can write and run your own reports, directly from the database, using
features built directly into LIMS.
At the touch of a button you can also export data in
reports to a Microsoft®
Excel spreadsheet, an HTML web page, a plain text file, or many other formats. You can
also print and email formatted reports.
- operational reports
- contract, supplier and customer reports
- cut control and planning reports
- log or fiber delivery and accounting reports
- timberland or woodland contractor payment reports
- purchases, sales and inventory reports
- etc.
With a 3LOG support and maintenance agreement, your costs are fixed in
advance. 3LOG will do the work of adding new features to the system and
keeping up with changes in database and operating system software.
LIMS has proven its capabilities at over 300 sites in North America.
Companies from single mills to big names in the forestry industry are using
3LOG software every day.
With LIMS, you can configure the system to work the way your company
works, and then easily add new businesss activities without additional
programming. For example, if you decide to start trading logs or fiber from
a mill that previously only consumed wood, you simply add the customer and
your contract and accounting rules, and start entering transactions. The
features are already in the system, without additional programming.
At 3LOG Systems, we keep the end user in mind throughout the
software development process. We understand the challenges our customer
might face over the learning process. As a result, LIMS is a user-friendly
software. A familiar, Windows-based graphical user interface (GUI) makes
training a breeze.
LIMS can handle multiple operations with different business practices and
rules that vary from coastal to interior, province to province, state to
state, northern to southern, and so on.
LIMS
is highly scalable. With a central
database design, our clients can combine all divisions in one central
reporting system at the corporate headquarters. Alternatively, each
division's woodlands, timberlands or mill operations can be independent from all
the others, each with its own database if preferred.
With 3LOG's approach, geographic boundaries do not stand in
the way of applying LIMS across an entire firm. The more people in a
corporation use 3LOG software, the
bigger the benefits of integration in terms of efficiency and productivity.
In summary
- eliminate manual tasks, duplication of effort and discrepancies
- re-structure and improve work processes
- reduce in-house support and maintenance costs
- process increased volumes and new business activities with existing staff
and systems
- get quick and easy access to your business information
- go with software that's proven itself in the industry
- integrate your entire business
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