Timber Manager Module

The Timber Manager is where you track your timber sources, their owners, sustainability certifications, geographic locations, planned quantities, and more.

Naturally, once entered this information is 100% integrated with all your related information (contracts, deliveries, inventory, etc.) in the Log Inventory and Management System (LIMS).

For pulp and paper mills or lumber mills using LIMS as a wood procurement system, the timber manager allows you to track the original source of your wood or fiber, the basis for chain-of-custody tracking and sustainable forestry.
For forestry companies using LIMS as log accounting software or a contractor payables system, the Timber Manager allows you to keep detailed records of your owned and licensed woodlands and timberlands. LIMS will relate back all contracts, deliveries, harvesting activities and so on to your timber sources.
For timber investment management organizations, the Timber Manager is your detailed asset register that tracks all transactions related to your woodlands or timberlands.

Set up forest areas by management area, license, region, source (mark, block, patch) and stratum

The Timber Manager defines the major geography (FMA, District, Management Unit) and a source for minor geography to the area, block and sub block, road assignments and population. You also record ownership and chain-of-custody certification information.

Assign projected harvest amount, expense, and cost centers for each timber source

Projected harvest volume or procurement quantities and cost centers for different regions can be set up under Source Manager in Timber Manager Module.

Set up road data (start node, end node, harvest area, and blocks serviced) and cycle times

The Timber Manager manages all the information concerning the road seasonal conditions, overweight limit, cycle times, and all road related data from the source (e.g. timberland) to the destination (e.g. mill).

Monitor entire inventory to ensure that the harvest volume stays within the planned parameters.

To determine the compliance to the harvest plan, LIMS monitors three values:

Total year-to-date cut per approved invoice
Total cut submitted for stumpage and royalty payment pending approval and invoicing
Current log inventory not yet submitted for stumpage and royalty

Improves operational efficiency

This module helps with an efficient control of your operation by categorizing and defining your woodland operations and applying different tasks to specific harvest areas.

Increases profitability and decrease costs

LIMS helps you comply with your annual harvest quota. By continually monitoring harvest volumes, LIMS has a complete picture of actual harvest-to-date, allowing advanced planning of necessary harvest increase or decrease. Last minute attempts to either an increase or limit harvest is often very expensive and can be easily avoided with the real-time information provided by LIMS.

Product Screens

Fig. 1: Screen shot of Timber Species / click to enlarge

Fig. 2: Screen shot of Timber Sources / click to enlarge

Fig. 3: Screen shot of Destinations / click to enlarge

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Testimonials

"Consistent 3LOG leads and assignments of resources. This has helped communications and knowledge transfer as we implemented... excellent teamwork!"

–Joe Kresse,

Weyerhaeuser Project Manager

"LIMS and WeighWiz are great products...user friendly... a very flexible system. Upload and download capability with Excel is a real 'plus.' Fast turnaround time on modification requests."

–Jerry Mounts,

Financial Manager, Weyerhaeuser Southern Timberlands

"LIMS strengthens the business process cycles. Efficiency has increased on the Information / Reporting Management... By doing this, it has opened the door on virtually answering any cost question..."

–Roger Kopchia,

Millar Western Forest Products

"...LIMS allows managers and operations staff to view cost and production information... Also, after using LIMS for a year, we are extremely impressed with the responsiveness of 3LOG support staff."

–Glen Cariou,

Mistik Management

"It's been excellent! We migrated to LIMS... Such efficiency strengthens our company's inventory management and business cycle. 3LOG's professionals have in-depth knowledge and experience both in the forest industry and in information technology."

–Randy Peters,

NewPage, Nova Scotia

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