Supply Chain
Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Dick Carlsson Södra Cell International AB, SE-351 89 Växjö, Sweden Sophie D’Amours FOR@C, CIRRELT, Université Laval, G1K 7P4, Québec, Canada Alain Martel FOR@C, CIRRELT, Université Laval, G1K 7P4, Québec, Canada Mikael Rönnqvist The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, NO-5045 Bergen, Norway
October 2006
Working Paper DT-2006-AM-3
Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada
© CIRRELT, 2006
Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Abstract
The pulp and paper industry depends on a long and integrated supply chain. It starts in forest harvest areas as trees and ends as multiple products used in all persons daily usage. The lead time from the first step to the last is long and it involves many steps operated by several companies and organizations. In this overview paper we describe the overall supply chain, its participants and the planning problems arising along the chain. We divide the planning problems into strategic, tactical and operative in a supply chain matrix and describe their characteristic and provide applications as illustrations. We discuss the need for information and decision support for planners in each of these areas. This relates to planning within a single company as well as integrated planning across several. A number of tailor-made systems has been developed and published in the literature and we describe these tools/systems together with their characteristics and results. To conclude with a discussion around current issues and outline future research areas.
DT-2006-AM-3
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Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry
1. Introduction
The pulp and paper industry produces a great number of paper and other cellulose based fibre products. The total quantity of cellulose-based products consumed every year world-wide exceeds
Dick Carlsson Södra Cell International AB, SE-351 89 Växjö, Sweden Sophie D’Amours FOR@C, CIRRELT, Université Laval, G1K 7P4, Québec, Canada Alain Martel FOR@C, CIRRELT, Université Laval, G1K 7P4, Québec, Canada Mikael Rönnqvist The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, NO-5045 Bergen, Norway
October 2006
Working Paper DT-2006-AM-3
Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada
© CIRRELT, 2006
Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Abstract
The pulp and paper industry depends on a long and integrated supply chain. It starts in forest harvest areas as trees and ends as multiple products used in all persons daily usage. The lead time from the first step to the last is long and it involves many steps operated by several companies and organizations. In this overview paper we describe the overall supply chain, its participants and the planning problems arising along the chain. We divide the planning problems into strategic, tactical and operative in a supply chain matrix and describe their characteristic and provide applications as illustrations. We discuss the need for information and decision support for planners in each of these areas. This relates to planning within a single company as well as integrated planning across several. A number of tailor-made systems has been developed and published in the literature and we describe these tools/systems together with their characteristics and results. To conclude with a discussion around current issues and outline future research areas.
DT-2006-AM-3
1
Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry
1. Introduction
The pulp and paper industry produces a great number of paper and other cellulose based fibre products. The total quantity of cellulose-based products consumed every year world-wide exceeds