Publications
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2007
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Erlend Ystrøm Haartveit Leif Kjøstelsen Bård Strand JacobsenAbstract
The project Woodflow is a 3-year project aiming at quantifying logistics costs for wood products in a supply chain from manufacturer to consumer. Woodflow is financed by the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway and Optimera AS. The work is carried out in Optimera’s distribution network in Norway. In this paper we present and discuss two methods for estimating time consumption, one for material handling and one for activities in the information flow. For material handling a method based on time studies has been modified and adapted to the situation in a distribution centre. For activities in the information flow performance measures of sales personnel are combined with information about registered orders to develop estimates for time consumption for entering orders and order lines. These will also be used to estimate time consumption for other tasks in the information flow. The estimates for time consumption will later be combined with the time costs of the performing actors to calculate logistics costs for material handling and for activities in the information flow.
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Eivind Jacobsen Svein Ole Borgen Arne DulsrudAbstract
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Erlend Ystrøm Haartveit Ingrid KnottenAbstract
Traceability in a supply chain can be established using several different technologies. The basic idea is marking each item with an identifier which can be rgistrered as the item flows downstream in the supply chain. Abilities to track and trace products and components have become requirements in many supply chains. Systems for traceability may also be used to improve logistics across the supply chain. Supply chain management implies applyin holistic perspectives on solutions, spanning from the vendor of raw materials to the consumer. This article presents a Norwegian case in which tracebility solutions based on Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) were tested in a supply chain for poles delivered to power lines. Logs were marked with standard RFID tags in the forest and were registered with a standard RFID reader on several sages frm forest to finished product. The standard equipment performed well even when exposed to rough handling, high and low temperatures and high pressure. The results show that even when individual actors may benefit from implementing traceability solutions it is challenging to develop joint and profitable solutions for several actors in a supply chain. Three main obstackles were identified as impediments for supply chain traceability. There are diffrences in objectives as som firms focus on optimising logistics and production, while others aim at reducing errors from manual registrations. There are differences in requirements for technical solutions, especially concerning where the tag should be placed on the log. Finally, there are differences in willingness and readiness to adopt new technology.
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EI Vanguelova Y Hirano Toril Drabløs Eldhuset L Sas-Paszt M Bakker Ü Püttsepp Ivano Brunner K Lõmus DL GodboldAbstract
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Elena Iordanova Vanguelova Yasuhiro Hirano Toril Drabløs Eldhuset Lidia Sas-Paszt Mark R. Bakker Ülle Püttsepp Ivano Brunner Krista Lõhmus Douglas Lawrence GodboldAbstract
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Håkan Broman Mikael Frisk Mikael RönnqvistAbstract
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O. Janne Kjønaas Richard Frederic WrightAbstract
To determine the source of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (N) in runoff, approx. 35 kg N enriched with the stable isotope 15N (2110‰ δ15N) was added to a mature coniferous forested catchment for one whole year. The total N input was approx. 50 kg ha-1 year-1. The enrichment study was part of a long-term whole-catchment ammonium nitrate addition experiment at Gårdsjön, Sweden. The 15N concentrations in precipitation, throughfall, runoff and upper forest floor were measured prior to, during, and 3-9 years following the 15N addition. During the year of the 15N addition the δ15N level in runoff largely reflected the level in incoming N, indicating that the leached NO3- came predominantly from precipitation. Only 1.1% of the incoming N was lost during the year of the tracer addition. The cumulative loss of tracer N over a 10-year period was only 3.9% as DIN and 1.1% as DON.
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Arne Oddvar Skjelvåg Ole Einar Tveito Inge BjørdalAbstract
An example is given from a pilot project on a coherent application of soil and weather data to produce crop security estimates of barley. GIS was used to interpolate daily weather elements from a network of weather stations to individually mapped soil type units, oil average less than 1 ha, of arable land. Other model tools are: a soil moisture model to estimate soil drying from the day of snow thaw until sowing date, temperature Run functions to estimate daily advance in phenological development to emergence, heading, and yellow ripeness, and thereafter, a grain moisture model for logging of combine harvesting days, taking also daily precipitation into account. The outcome is probability estimates of getting at least a given number of combining options within a given calendar day.
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The relationships between measures of forest structure as derived from airborne laser scanner data and the variation in quantity of young trees established by natural regeneration in a size-diverse spruce forest were analyzed. A regeneration success rate (RSR) was regressed against 27 different laser-derived explanatory variables. The 27 different models were ranked according to their Akaike information criterion score. Each laser variable was then associated with two categories. These were return and type. Within the return and type categories, the variables were grouped according to if they originated from first or last return echoes and if they were canopy height or canopy density metrics. The results show that the laser variables strongest correlated to the quantity of small trees could be attributed to last return and density metrics.