1. WoodForce and LogForce
Juha Käppi Service Manager
October 2017
WoodForce and LogForce

2. Business trends
Tight competition – constant need for efficiency improvements
Competitive fiber sourcing
Minimal wood stock
Replace paper work with digital data transfer
Use mobile equipment
Collect and transfer data digitally
Close co-operation between different parties
Forest companies, contractors, vendors,…
Sharing development costs
Contractors free to work with several forest companies
Shorter machine moving distances
Big data – analyze and learn
Move timber as efficiently as possible (backloads and delivering to closest delivery destination)
Trading between forest companies

3. Wood supply chain

4. Workflow – harvesting and transportation
Forestry system 9 1 6
WoodForce planning
LogForce planning 2 7 4 8 3 5
WoodForce mobile
LogForce mobile
Harvesting orders, working sites and bucking control files sent to WoodForce.
Harvesting planned and work instructions sent to machines via mobile network.
Harvesting done and production files and harvester route sent to WoodForce planning and forestry system.
Production amounts and harvester route is sent to the forwarder via mobile network.
Forwarding estimates and forwarding notifications are sent to WoodForce and forestry system.
Transport orders and roadside storages are sent to LogForce.
Loads and storages are planned and sent to trucks.
Load ready and load delivered tickets/messages are sent to LogForce and forestry system.
Supervisor can monitor harvesting and transportation status, compare measured amounts and make needed adjustments to plans dynamically.

5. WoodForce and LogForce
Software services (SaaS) created for forestry logistics.
LogForce for wood transportation (round wood, by-products, forest energy).
Developed with Metsä Group and Stora Enso. Metsähallitus agreed to join as well (Finnish state forest company).
WoodForce for harvest execution, silviculture and .
Developed with Metsä Group, Stora Enso and Metsähallitus (Finnish state forest company).
Close co-operation with Ponsse, John Deere, Komatsu, Ecolog, Rottne/Dasa, Parker, LogSet and Technion to ensure compatibility with StanForD (Classic and 2010).

6. WoodForce
A planning and operations control system for harvesting execution and forestry services
Enables productivity improvements by providing
Better visibility to support decision making
Tools for planners to control the execution in changing environment
Tools for field workers to work efficiently
Silviculture production started 8/2016. Currently ~650 users/resources.
Harvesting production usage started 1/2017. Rollouts ongoing.

7. LogForce
LogForce™ is a software service for forestry industry transport. It reduces transportation costs by making transportation planning and execution more effective.
Joined product development effort with two major forest companies Stora Enso and Metsä Group
Production started in 2013, in 2016 more than 800 trucks and about 30 million m3 transported.

8. Workflow

9. Scope - WoodForce

10. Scope - LogForce

11. Forest Information Standard (XML) Forest Information Standard (XML)
Basic data integration between forest company and harvesting company in WoodForce
Forest Information Standard (XML)
Harvesting contract
Harvesting orders
Contract
Forest company
ERP System
Forest Information Standard (XML)
Company information
User information
Resources
Week calendar
WoodForce
Planning and
Harvest

12. Operative harvesting data integration between forest company and harvesting company in WoodForce
Forest Information Standard (XML)
Working sites (WSO)
Working site quality instructions and feedback
Map symbols and images
Map symbols and images
Contract
Forest company
ERP System
Contract
StanForD 2010 Standard (XML)
Product Instructions (PIN)
Forest Information Standard (XML)
Resource schedules
Working site updates and statuses
Quality control data
Working site final audit data
Travel and working times
Fee basis data
Map symbols and images
WoodForce
Planning and
Harvest

13. Standard integration between forest company, WoodForce and harvester’s measurement device
Forest Information Standard (XML)
WSO
StanForD 2010 (XML)
PIN
OIN
StanForD Classic
OAI
AP1
Forest company
ERP System
StanForD 2010 (XML)
PIN
Forest Information
Standard (XML)
WS Harvested Production
(HPR/PRD attached)
WS Harvesting Quality Control
(HQC/KTR attached)
STM
Optional: PRI, DRF, THP, UDD, OPM
StanForD 2010 (XML)
HPR
HQC
STM
Optional: PRI, DRF, THP, UDD, OPM
StanForD Classic
PRD
KTR
PIN
WoodForce
Planning and
Harvest
Harvester’s
measurement
device
WS Harvested Production (Working Site Harvested Production) is combined XML integration message from WoodForce to Forest System ERP according to Forest Information Standard. It contains summary information of stem volumes, assortment volumes and assortment matrix which are pre-calculated by WoodForce. WS Harvested Production contains HPR or PRD attached; thus it is independent of StanForD standard harvester is using.
WS Harvesting Quality (Working Site Harvested Quality) works in the same way as WS Harvested Production.
STM files are sent to forest system separately as-is.
In wanted and available, WoodForce can be configured to sent PRI, DRF, THP, UDD and OPM files to forest system ERP.