SOFIA: Seamless Operation of Forest Industry Applications

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SOFIA Seamless Operation of Forest Industry
Applications

• University of Jyväskylä
• Sergiy Nikitin Minna Lappalainen
• senikiti_at_jyu.fi, 358445820503
• minna.k.lappalainen_at_jyu.fi

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SOFIA

• Objective
• To build an ICT solution for logistics
  optimization on the contractor site (for
  harvesting and transportation SMEs)
• The practical outcome - a SOFIA software platform
  for B2B mediation tailored to the forestry sector
  of Finland
• Strategic fit to research strategy
• Optimized logistics will
• Decrease expenses of the entire raw wood supply
  chain by approx. 50 mil. annually, hence
  increase competitiveness of the whole value chain
• Free the capacity for the strategic goal of
  national wood production growth up to 25
• SOFIA - a basis for easy adoption of new business
  models
• No changes in the existing ICT solutions of
  forest industry companies
• Enables efficient operations and high customer
  service level for contractors having multiple
  customers
• A big step towards flexible forestry service
  market

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SOFIA

• Main actions
• Platform implementation in close cooperation with
  end users
• Business opportunities and challenges
• A set of competing SMEs can be established for
  SOFIA provision, support further development
• Challenges
• Historically closed environment
• No support from other Information System
  providers may raise connectivity difficulties
• Monopoly of IS provider(s) may influence SOFIA
  adoption

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Impact and expected benefits

• Value creation potential
• SOFIA offers cost reduction, openness and
  readiness for new business scenarios
• Renewal of forest industry
• Prepares a basis for ICT innovations in forestry
  chain
• Sustainability
• Use of standards and configurable platform
  architecture
• New competence and/or knowledge
• Expertise in forestry domain combined with the
  bleeding edge ICT technologies

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Networking

• Research partners
• Koneyrittäjät ry, Metsäalan kuljetusyrittäjät ry,
  Metsäteho, Metla, Joensuun yliopisto, VTT,
  Metsäkeskus Tapio, Metsäteollisuus ry,
  Energiateollisuus ry
• International networking
• Skogforsk, Sweden University of Freiburg,
  Germany
• Links to other EU/ Forestcluster Ltd programmes
• Indisputable Key EU FP6 project
• More to be added

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Appendix A State of the art in logistics
planning
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Appendix B SOFIA platform for a contractor SME
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Appendix C Concept of Virtual Machine
From the consumer point of view, logging and
transportation services look the same, however,
the real equipment of the contractor is hidden. A
wood buyer makes orders seamlessly, but the
assembly chosen for the execution is virtual. The
service provider then plans the operations and
assigns tasks to real units