Journal
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 190, Issue 1, Pages 93-115Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0621-5
Keywords
Supply network planning; Bucking; Integer programming; Heuristic; Forest supply chain; Columns generation
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- FOR@C Research Consortium in E-Business in the Forest Products Industry
- Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
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We consider a two-echelon timber supply chain in which the first echelon consists of several stands to be harvested and the second echelon consists of mills to be supplied with logs of different length. This problem aims at minimizing harvesting and transportation costs for one production period, while satisfying demand expressed as a mix of volumes of specific log types. Harvesting cost, which includes felling, bucking and hauling to roadside, depends upon the number of log type to be produced and sorted. Each stand to be harvested is modeled individually with a limited number of trees of various classes of diameter and total length, which affects the productivity factors of the bucking patterns to be used. To take these characteristics into account, we propose heuristics based on columns generation to solve the supply network problem at the forest level with an anticipation of bucking operations at the stand level.
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