Engineering sustainable forest industry value creation network - design for network economies

该研究计划旨在为加拿大林业提供基于工业工程和供应链管理领域的创新工具和方法，以提高其可持续性并减少其环境足迹。为了使森林产品工业保持竞争力，必须从可持续性的角度重新评价新的和现有的商业模式;这就要求在战略规划和决策中纳入经济、环境和社会层面。该提案引入了一个由工业工程、林业、工商管理和计算机科学研究人员组成的多学科团队，旨在解决可持续价值链设计中出现的各种问题。该计划是由教授，PHQ，研究专业人士和FOR@C的工业合作伙伴团队发起的研究工作的延续。简而言之，该计划旨在解决经济，环境和社会可持续的价值链设计，同时考虑各种不确定性来源。通过开发三个决策支持系统（SilviLab、LogiLab和CarbonLab），将研究项目中开发的模型和工具有效地从研究人员转移到工业合作伙伴。

This research program aims to provide the Canadian forest industry with innovative tools and methods grounded in the domains of industrial engineering and supply chain management in order to improve its sustainability and reduce its environmental footprint. For the forest products industry to remain competitive, new and existing business models must be re-evaluated from the perspective of sustainability; this calls for the integration of economic, environmental and social dimensions in strategic planning and decision making. This proposal introduces a multidisciplinary team of researchers in industrial engineering, forestry, business administration and computer science that intends to tackle various problems arising in the design of sustainable value chains. This program is the continuation of research efforts initiated by a team of professors, PHQ, research professionals and industrial partners of FOR@C. In brief, this program intends address the design of value chains that are economically, environmentally and socially sustainable while considering various sources of uncertainty. Effective transfer of the models and tools developed in the research program from researchers to the industrial partners will be facilitated through the development of three decision support systems (SilviLab, LogiLab and CarbonLab).