Integrated Planning: from the Forest to the

Customer

Sébastien Lemieux
Research Professional
FORAC Research Consortium
Université Laval
Some Challenges of the Forest Industry
Forest Mills
• Inventory (m3 / ha) • Wood Inventory
• Silvicultural Regime • Production Processes
• Growth Models • Transportation
• Wood Quality • Supply/Demand

AAC Calculations Network Optimization

• Sustained yield • Reduce inventory costs
• Protection constraints • Transportation efficiency
• Silvicultural investments • Maximize profits

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Why SilviLab?
• Availability of existing forest data
• Inventory
• Growth models
• Silvicultural treatments
• etc.
• Need for multi criteria, geographical and spatial representations of this data
• Need for collaboration between different actors with different needs and
goals to produce a management plan

Web application to visualize (user interface with geographical data

representation), evaluate and compare strategic industrial
development plans of the forest

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 Why LogiLab?
• FORAC is recognized for its knowledge and achievements in optimisation:
• Production planning
• Transport decisions
• Several projects (Internships, Masters, PhDs, other)

• Models are specific for a problem:

• Difficulties to adapt to another problem
• Optimisation knowledge required to update the model

Generic tool for supply chain modelling (user interface with

geographical localization of business units) with tactical production
and transportation decisions planning

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Spatialization of the Territory

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Spatialization of the Territory

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Spatialization of the Territory

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Spatialization of the Territory

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Spatialization of the Territory

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 Mills Modelling

Product Quantity
Chips 11.75 t
Product Quantity
Sawdust 1.17 t
Small logs 46.98 m3
2x3 5473.41 bf
2x4 23.91 bf
Cost $866.82
Duration 1 hour

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 Mills Modelling

Product Quantity
Chips 11.37 t
Product Quantity Sawdust 1.14 t
Medium logs 56.84 m3 2x3 2076.63 bf
2x4 7719.16 bf
2x6 1693.90 bf
Cost $1033.01
Duration 1 hour

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 Mills Modelling

Product Quantity
Chips 11.11 t
Sawdust 2.47 t
Product Quantity
2x3 679.87 bf
Big logs 82.67 m3
2x4 14218.1 bf
2x6 5134.22 bf
Cost $1524.35 2x8 2567.73 bf
Duration 1 hour

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Mills Modelling

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Demo

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SilviLab – Inventory
SilviLab – Carbon
SilviLab – Harvesting plan
LogiLab – A Basic Network
SilviLab & LogiLab – Not Integrated
SilviLab & LogiLab –Integrated
 Thank you!
Sebastien.Lemieux@forac.ulaval.ca

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