The project goal is to develop customer driven value chains and wood raw material allocation system by implementing smart bucking centre for stems. The fundamental idea of proposed Wood allocation centre – concept (WAC) is to deliver the right product to the right customer in a timely manner with the highest possible value added. Independently operated centre serves several mills (sawmills, plywood, converters) forming a network with ability to specialise to certain product. At the centralised bucking centre, delivered stems are measured accurately (geometrical and quality features) prior bucking. Metla’s role in the project is to evaluate costing of wood transportations operations related to tree-length method and CTL (cut-to-length) method including profitability calculations of the new logistic concepts and development of methodology to judge whether the tree stand should be cut with tree-length method or CTL-method.
