Areas of Focus

Improve forest products company business performance. Advance innovation to connect and improve data visibility, streamline processes and more accurately measure performance metrics of forest products supply chain companies.

Build an Education and Professional Development platform to educate and develop tech leaders in the forest products space. Create a target skills designation of Chief Forest Technology Officer (CFTO) to encapsulate the various technologies available to building material supply companies.

Streamline the Forest Products Supply Chain

Create data standards with a unique [[Base Data Identifier]] (BDI) to allow sharing of product information consistently through the supply chain and the business applications within it. Provide connectivity, business integrations and data sharing to promote digital information flow and improve business transactional capabilities. Identify and eliminate redundancy and disconnects within the supply chain.

Build a Data Clearinghouse and introduce www.digitalwoodflow.com as a platform to connect and maintain data conversion tables and access. Provide forums, blogs and open information sharing to evolve the model.

Enable Digital transactional platforms to help companies and their buying group partners to source and distribute products, develop markets, and operate more efficiently

Improve Supply Chain Visibility by providing visibility of forest products inventory in retail, wholesale and reload locations. Display incoming product flow from world, national, and regional data sources. Establish dashboards of product flow, inventory availability and location of lumber

Create “Wander”, a Forest Products BKM - Business Knowledge Management Information Platform. Introduce a BKM Business Knowledge Management Forest Products wiki of linked thoughts as a resource to allow Students of the Industry to enhance their industry knowledge, explore and further create new business solutions. These note taking applications like Obsidian and Roam Research allow you to seamlessly link thoughts and notes together and are spearheading a Knowledge Management revolution. Business owners are seeing the value in the idea of linked thoughts to support their own work and business planning.