Longview Fibre has been in the process of selecting an ERP package. The ERP vendors under final consideration were SAP and JD Edwards. Longview understands that the ERP would not support all of its needs for its Fibre Timber and Fibre Supply divisions. Longview has intended to find a software package in order to accommodate the functionality gap between what these business units require and what can be provided through the ERP solution.
3LOG Systems Inc. presented a review of the LIMS system to Longview personnel and the requirements analysis of Longview’s woodlands system is performed using 3LOG’s LIMS Functionalities. Through this process, 3LOG determined the resources required to satisfy Longview’s business requirements and presented the company with a well structured, mature and customizable solution—LIMS Inventory Management System.
The LIMS’ Delivery Manager Module is responsible for interfacing with 3LOG’s WeighWiz and other weights capture software, to receive log delivery information from any of our clients’ weigh scale locations. It accepts scaled wood data from a number of sources: sample scales, piece scales and other bush scales. Once the Delivery Manager receives load data from WeighWiz, that information is distributed to the other LIMS modules as required.
The LIMS’ Inventory Manager Module is typically used to hold inventory data of logs that have been across a company weigh scale. It also keeps track of the entire inventory that has not yet been “weigh scaled” but has been “bush scaled” by staff in the field. The Inventory Manager can easily handle the “bush scaled” camp inventory with the added functionality of being able to associate contract payment advances with the movement of log volume from one product type to another within the camp inventory.
About Longview Fibre Company
Longview Fibre Company was opened for business at Longview, Washington in 1927, with one containerboard machine and 300 employees producing about 100 tons per day. Today, Longview Fibre manufactures value-added corrugated and solid-fibre containers; shopping and merchandise bags, and other paper products. The company operates one of the largest pulp-paper mills in the world at Longview ; as well as 16 converting plants in 11 states; and a lumber plant. The company owns over 570,000 acres of timberlands managed for Sustainable Forestry in the Pacific Northwest. Longview Fibre is also a leader in recycled-content paper packaging.