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Delivery Manager Module
The Log Inventory and Managements System Delivery Manager tracks all
information related to your timber, log, wood and fiber deliveries. Such
information will include arrival date, time and location, timber source,
truck, gross and net weight, species of wood, form of wood (raw logs, cut
logs, chips, etc.), and so on.
All information is cross-validated against
related database tables, and is immediately available to other modules
(inventory, payment, etc.) in real time.
LIMS is much more than a wood procurement system;
it is comprehensive business management software
for the forestry, wood products, pulp and paper
and lumber industries.
LIMS relates all deliveries back to their original
sources and hence tracks chain-of-custody and other sustainability (SFI)
certification.
Deliveries
- Imports load information from WeighWiz and other weight capture
software into LIMS
- Verifies, with the Timber Manager,
the existence and accuracy of the approval area, block, setup number, and
species associated with each load
- Verifies, with the Contract Manager,
the existence and accuracy of the contracts and truck configurations
- Accepts many types of products including log samples, chip samples,
pieces (logs), and different weigh scale software
- Ensures that delivered wood volumes are associated with the proper
contract
- Links Ministry of Forests and Range (MoF) numbers to timber sources
- Checks the scale information against a scale location table
- Manages trucks and haulers
- Reports on Truck turn-around time, yard time, overweight information, etc.
- Increases information accuracy by verifying information with Timber and Contract Managers
- Provides flexibility by accepting many different types of products
- Updates the mill and bush inventories by alerting the Inventory Manager
Product Screens
Fig. 1: Screen shot of Loads / click to enlarge
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Fig. 2: Screen shot of Chip Samples / click to enlarge
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Delivery planning
- Track delivery depletions against individual sources
- Create larger-scale delivery budgets, quotas and wood orders (e.g. by business unit or vendor)
- Monitor actuals against plan
- Report on variances
- Pinpoint unexpected variances in deliveries
- Get the information you need to make immediate corrections to delivery schedules
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"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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