Alternatives for optimal integration of forest supply chain operations

VANZETTI, NICOLÁS; CORSANO, GABRIELA; MONTAGNA, JORGE MARCELO

Virtual

Simposio; 50 JAIIO. Jornadas Argentinas de Informática; 2021

SADIO

The market dynamics and requirements prompt the competition among individual companies included in a supply chain (SC). It is well-known that all the SC members search to improve its efficiency and increase its competitiveness, and in most cases, the results do not correspond to an equitable distribution among all the members. However, SC approaches generally address as a performance measure the profits of the entire system. In this way, a counterpoint arises be-tween the optimality of the overall results and the benefit perceived by each of the participants. In this work, a mixed integer programming model to assess the per-formances of different SC members is presented. Specifically, the approach eval-uates the tactical operations in a forest SC comprising bucking planning at the forest sites and production planning of lumber, electric power and two kinds of boards, each one at its production plant. Besides obtaining different production scenarios, through the examples, integration versus individual concerns is ap-praised for an industry that has increasing conflict of interest.